{"id":22531,"date":"2026-06-18T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22531"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:06:44","slug":"before-the-great-recession-the-warning-full-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22531","title":{"rendered":"Before the Great Recession, \u201cThe Warning\u201d (full documentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress was warned well ahead of time about how the lack of regulation and transparency would lead to a great crash when many big institutions were all making the same bets and making the same assumptions. Congress didn&#8217;t listen. They listened to the Ayn Rand follower Alan Greenspan instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Before the Great Recession, \u201cThe Warning\u201d (full documentary)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZ25uZtey34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress was warned well ahead of time about how the lack of regulation and transparency would lead to a great crash when many big institutions were all making the same bets and making the same assumptions. Congress didn&#8217;t listen. They listened to the Ayn Rand follower Alan Greenspan instead. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZZ25uZtey34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,167,1469,240,646,615,1467,592,236,551],"class_list":["post-22531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-government-intervention","tag-great-recession","tag-libertarian","tag-libertarians","tag-markets","tag-recession","tag-regulation","tag-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22532,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions\/22532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}