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  • BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 3 – Back from the Brink

    BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 3 – Back from the Brink

    The Last of episode of “The Love of Money” three part series. In the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared into the abyss of total financial collapse. The third part of the BBC’s definitive series on the crash tells the extraordinary story of how politicians reacted, and asks [...]

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  • BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 2 – The Age of Risk

    BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 2 – The Age of Risk

    The series on the global crash examines the boom years before the bust. With testimony from many of the key decision makers who shaped our lives over the last two decades, including Gordon Brown, governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, and an exclusive interview with former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan [...]

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  • BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 1 -The Bank that Bust the World

    BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 1 -The Bank that Bust the World

    Series offering a definitive account of what happened to create the greatest financial crisis for eighty years. In September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers tipped the world into recession. A cast of contributors including national leaders, finance ministers and CEOs describe the tense negotiations in New York and London as the investment institution headed towards [...]

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  • BBC: The City Uncovered with Evan Davis

    BBC: The City Uncovered with Evan Davis

    A documentary on the financial system hosted by the cheery Evan Davies, in three parts. Starting with a story about a mistake made by NASA when the engineers used imperial measurments while the engineers thought they were using metric, causing an unmanned spaceship to explode, Evan compared this to the $100 billion gone from the banking [...]

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  • Million Dollar Traders

    Million Dollar Traders

    “Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. Can they make a killing? The experiment reveals the inner workings of a City trading floor. The money is supplied by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam: he wants to see if ordinary people [...]

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