Economics at the Movies - Bank Run Scene from A Wonderful Life

I use this clip from A Wonderful Life when teaching the causes of a bank run, inter-mixed with a news report on the demise of Northern Rock and the collapse of Lehman Bros.

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Economics at the Movies - Freakonomics [9 Jan 2012]
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Economics at the Movies - Too Big to Fail [28 Sep 2011]
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Economics at the Movies: Castaway Revisited [27 Aug 2011]
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Economics at the Movies: A Beautiful Mind [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Wayne’s World & Product Placement [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Plastic Surgery - Need or Want? [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies - The Game of Chicken [18 Jul 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Utility of Decorative Pillows [18 Jul 2011]
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Economics at the Movies - Margin Call [23 Jan 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Four Yorkshiremen and Happiness Economics [31 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Dark Knight and Game Theory [30 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Wedding Crashers and Free Riders [29 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Our Daily Bread [28 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Couscous [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Vanishing Bees [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Austin Powers and Inflation [23 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Reggie Perrin’s inebriated speech and economic growth [22 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Hudsucker Proxy and Consumer Demand [21 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Billy Ray Valentine learns commodities [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - For the Love of the Game [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Goodbye Lenin [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Damned United and the Principle Agent Problem [19 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Pretty Woman, Consumer and Producer Surplus [19 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - A Boring Economics Teacher! [19 Oct 2010]
Attaching Blame for the Financial Crisis [29 Sep 2010]
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AS Economics Revision - Dissecting the Recession [1 May 2010]
Nationalisation - Teacher Presentation [17 Nov 2009]
Is Keynes still relevant? [15 Sep 2009]
The Year that Shook the World [7 Sep 2009]
From Credit Crunch to Downturn [9 Aug 2009]
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Credit Crunch [7 Aug 2008]
Declan and Stephanie in Discussion [10 Apr 2008]
AZ of the Credit Crunch [5 Apr 2008]
Government failure and the Rock [26 Mar 2008]
The Weekend Papers [24 Mar 2008]
Sachs pins blame on Greenspan [22 Mar 2008]
Credit Crunch Mind Map [20 Mar 2008]
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Economics: Sunday Paper Selection [16 Mar 2008]
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