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Title The card game [videorecording] / a Frontline co-production with Cam Bay Productions and the New York Times ; producers and writers, Lowell Bergman & Oriana Zill de Granados.

Imprint [United States] : WGBH Educational Foundation : PBS Distribution, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  332.765 C178 2009    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, widescreen, stereo, NTSC, region 1.
Performer Correspondent, Lowell Bergman.
Credits Editor, Stephanie Challberg ; director of photography, Zachary Stauffer.
Language In English with optional described video; closed-captioned.
Event Originally aired on the WGBH television series, Frontline, on November 24, 2009.
Audience Not rated.
Contents 1. The wizards of consumer lending -- 2. Tricks and traps that fooled consumers -- 3. The economic collapse triggers reform -- 4. Consumers pay the price -- 5. Debit cards - regulators' next target -- 6. What's ahead for consumers?
Note "As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and staggering new rates of default and bankruptcy, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. In The Card Game, a follow-up to the "Secret History of the Credit Card" and a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over attempts to reform the way the industry has done business for decades."-- Frontline website.
Summary Correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. Bergman and the New York Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians, and consumer advocates as they square-off over new regulation and the possible creation of a consumer finance protection agency. The stakes couldn't be higher as many fear the consumer loan industry could be at the center of the next crisis.
Subject Credit cards -- United States.
Consumer credit -- United States.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television news programs.
Television programs -- United States.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Added Author Bergman, Lowell. Producer. Screenwriter. Correspondent.
De Granados, Oriana Zill. Producer. Screenwriter.
Challberg, Stephanie.
Cam Bay Productions.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
PBS Distribution (Firm)
Added Title New York times.
Frontline (Television program)
ISBN 9781608831395
1608831396
Standard No. 841887011426
Music No. FRL62806 PBS

 
    
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