The Ascent of Money

[heyheybooboo]

The Ascent of Money
(New) 9:00 PM, 2 hrs
Tue 01/13/2009

Harvard economist-historian Niall Ferguson explores the history of money and the global financial system, including past economic crises and what can be learned from them. Included: financier George Soros and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker are interviewed.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I caught the last hour of this last night. I'll probably watch the whole thing today, it's definitely worth watching. I wonder if it contributed any to today's market drop.

 

[TheDoc9]

I'll be interesting to see how they frame history, I'm in.

 

[FlashG]

I wish they would have speculated on the breakup of ChiAmerica. I?m beginning to believe that Peter Schiff and Chris Matenson have the answer but midstream finance won?t buy in.

 

[smokeyjoe]

Sorry I missed this one

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascent...he-ascent-of-money/24/

Or I'll just watch it now

 

[Spook]

Originally posted by: FlashG
I wish they would have speculated on the breakup of ChiAmerica. I?m beginning to believe that Peter Schiff and Chris Matenson have the answer but midstream finance won?t buy in.

Yeah, I got the feeling they had more answers than they were willing to discuss. They left allot of loose ends.

 

[Craig234]

I watched it and was more disappointed than impressed. It had some nice technical or stylistic things, but was way too 'look at the shiny object on to the next one' for me.

It seemed a lost opportunity to have the world's biggest bond trader, Paul Volcker, George Soros interviewed but just saying rather basic things.

'So, what was the level of tenstion in that meeting, Mr. Soros?' Who cares?

I think it did not provide anywhere nearly the insight needed on these issues.

For example, the entire topic of credit default swapd, critical to the crash, were not even mentioned.