Latest 60 Minutes: Business videos

  • Marc Dreier: The Swindler

    Marc Dreier: The Swindler

    October 4, 2009 | 5:00 PM PDT

    To understand how Bernie Madoff could have done what he did, listen to so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier tell Steve Kroft in his first TV interview how he scammed $400 million.

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  • Financial WMDs

    Financial WMDs

    August 30, 2009 | 4:35 PM PDT

    Steve Kroft examines the complicated financial instruments known as credit default swaps and the central role they are playing in the unfolding economic crisis.

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  • Steve Wynn

    Steve Wynn

    July 26, 2009 | 4:55 PM PDT

    The casino mogul most responsible for taking Las Vegas to new heights of gaming and glitter talks to Charlie Rose about his spectacular success.

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  • The Cheaters

    The Cheaters

    June 28, 2009 | 4:50 PM PDT

    60 Minutes and The Washington Post reveal how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. Steve Kroft and Gilbert Gaul report.

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  • The Man Who Knew

    The Man Who Knew

    June 14, 2009 | 2:00 PM PDT

    Harry Markopolos repeatedly told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernie Madoff's investment fund was a fraud. He was ignored, and investors lost billions of dollars. Steve Kroft reports.

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  • The Chairman Part 2

    The Chairman Part 2

    June 7, 2009 | 2:00 PM PDT

    Ben Bernanke tells Scott Pelley what the Fed is doing to help fix the current economic crisis and when he expects the crippling recession to end.

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  • The Chairman Part 1

    The Chairman Part 1

    June 7, 2009 | 2:00 PM PDT

    In a rare interview with a sitting Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke tells Scott Pelley what went wrong with America's financial system and how it caused the current economic crisis.

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  • Your Bank Has Failed

    Your Bank Has Failed

    May 31, 2009 | 11:00 AM PDT

    Scott Pelley has an exclusive look as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation takes control of a failed bank.

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  • Buy American

    Buy American

    May 24, 2009 | 8:00 AM PDT

    The stimulus package includes a "buy American" clause that the steel and other U.S. industries lobbied hard for. However, U.S businesses that export overseas now fear foreign governments will retaliate.

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  • AIG: We Own It

    AIG: We Own It

    May 17, 2009 | 6:00 AM PDT

    Ed Liddy, the man who took over the reins of AIG -- the failed insurance giant to which the government has made $180 billion available in aid -- speaks to Steve Kroft about the gargantuan task ahead.

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