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Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/meltdown/2011/09/201191713542357406.html
Meltdown examines how an epidemic of fear caused banks to stop lending, triggered protests and led to industrial action. In the second episode of Meltdown, we look at how the financial tsunami swept the world. We hear about a renegade executive who nearly destroyed the global financial system and the US treasury secretary who bailed out his friends. Henry 'Hank' Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and later an economic advisor to the US government; refused to bail out global financial services firm - the Lehman Brothers. Paulson said it was not the role of government to save private businesses.