Here lies all the nerdy material you can ask for. Talks, lectures and documentaries from a variety of sources often over an hour in length. There are many other shorter videos in here as well that cover various elements in the world of money. A kind of catch all for the worthwhile videos that didn’t make levels 1-3.
Click on each image to watch the corresponding video in a pop up box or alternatively click on the headline to go to the post that may contain a written explanation of the video in question. The grid at the bottom of the page works in much the same way but is also a representation of all the videos in this series. Just so you don’t miss out on anything.
In this talk at Google HQ, serial big picture author Jeremy Rifkin talks about how the internet is changing our society and our economy. More specifically, how the internet surrounding information communication has radically changed how our economy functions and how this will spread into a future “Internet of Things”, doing the same thing to […]
As one of the few to have predicted the 2008 financial crisis, Australian economist Steve Keen has something real to say about the un-sustainability of our current financial system. “Debt that can’t be paid off, won’t be paid off” is essentially the focus of this interview and he talks about how the financial system has […]
This 77 min pseudo documentary “The Crisis of Civilization” is based on the Book by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed of the same name. It goes through multiple parts each exploring various elements of our interconnected world, namely Climate Catastrophe; Peak Energy; Peak Food; Economic Instability; International Terrorism; and the Militarization Tendency with some final thoughts on […]
Frontline spends 54 minutes examining why no Wall Street execs have been prosecuted for any fraud related activities despite their clear knowledge of the toxicity of the bad mortgages contained within the complex financial products they were selling. There seems to be little political will to go to trial and win the tough to prove […]
In the final instalment of this four part PBS special the culture of Wall Street and investment banking is explored. It was a culture of making money and everyone was in on it. Bankers, really glorified salesman, were encouraged by management and a system of lucrative bonuses to sell derivatives to everyone, from municipal governments, […]
In the third of a four part series, Frontline takes a look at how freshly elected President Obama dealt with the incredibly daunting task of fixing up the worst economic mess since the 1930′s. A key part of this would be the selection of the economic team that would ultimately deal with the situation. Would […]
In the second of a four part series, Frontline examines how the financial top brass dealt with the dilemma that this systemic risk caused. The basic survival of the fittest ideals of a market system were continually discarded as the reality of the “too big to fail” situation was revealed. Being backed further into the […]
In this rather excellent 4 part series the Frontline team from PBS documents the events surrounding the global financial crisis told through the lens of 17 interviews from insiders to give a unique first hand view of how it all unfolded. The first part covers the build up to the 2008 crash. The repeal of […]
Before the financial crisis I never really understood what all the business bits in the news really meant, the whole economy was a bit of a mystery. Since then I have learnt a few things, one of which is that money is largely an illusion. As an individual it is very real, how much I […]
Terry Karl, Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies and professor of Political Science at Stanford University, discusses overcoming the resource curse. Also known as the paradox of plenty it is the fact that most resource rich, in this case oil rich countries are performing far poorer than non resource rich countries in terms of development […]
