PBS Frontline – Betting the Market (1997)

Based on “A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class,” by Joe Nocera of Fortune magazine, who also does the reporting, the hour captures the frenetic pace and high stakes of the financial game as it is now being played. The focus is on the allure that superstar mutual-fund wizards have for the baby boom generation.” Some seismic corporate moves, such as mergers and massive layoffs, may be triggered by pressure from fund managers, who themselves are under constant pressure to protect the prices of stocks in their care. It’s practically an aside in the program, but in effect FRONTLINE’ is asking who ’s really running corporate America.

• PBS Frontline – The Warning
  22 November 2009 9:27 AM | View Comments

  In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger [...]

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• Series 7 Exam – Municipal Bond Market
  16 July 2009 10:10 AM | View Comments

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• Series 7 Exam – Municipal Bond Market
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• How to make a market in grains
  24 July 2009 10:58 PM | View Comments

  Pretty cool setup though they need to kill those sounds on X_Trader. You can only imagine these are the yahoos trading grains in a thin market. [flowplayer id=34 width=620 height=380]

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• PBS: Frontline – The Madoff Affair
  03 October 2009 12:50 AM | View Comments

  The Madoff Affair unravels the story behind the world’s first truly global Ponzi scheme. Who saw the warning signs? Why were they ignored for so long? Billions of dollars were channeled to Madoff’s investment firm, and his feeders became fabulously wealthy. The competition wondered how the man could produce such steady returns in good times [...]

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