RBS: Inside The Bank That Ran Out Of Money

Vlatko — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:50 +0000

The Royal Bank of Scotland was once a famous Scottish institution; a bank with a reputation for prudence. But in October 2008, less than a decade after Fred Goodwin took over as chief executive, it came within hours of collapsing. RBS later posted the biggest loss in

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The Party’s Over: How the West Went Bust

Vlatko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:55:36 +0000

In the teeth of the worst financial crisis in living memory, BBC business editor Robert Peston examines how the world got to this point and how the colossal imbalances in the global economy have left the UK in need of a radical economic overhaul. In this first

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The Midas Formula: Trillion Dollar Bet

Vlatko — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:29:40 +0000

The history behind perhaps the greatest formula ever created in finance: the Black-Scholes-Merton options pricing model. Two of its creators were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. A year later their hedge fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) had collapsed with staggering losses of $100

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The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse

Vlatko — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:05:02 +0000

Doc Zone has traveled the world – from Wall Street to Dubai to China – to investigate The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse. Meltdown is the story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families

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Million Dollar Traders

Vlatko — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:00:28 +0000

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

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Debtocracy

Vlatko — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:55:50 +0000

For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. Debtocracy seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. Debtocracy is a 2011 documentary film by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou. The documentary mainly focuses

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An Inconvenient Death

Vlatko — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:00:06 +0000

A documentary wake up call to all families, regardless of political affiliation, to end America’s spending and debt crisis. Let us not engage in the wrong argument, at the wrong time, between the wrong people, in the wrong country, while the real problems of our time grow

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The Money Fix

Vlatko — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:00:52 +0000

Money is just information, a way we measure what we trade, nothing of value in itself. And we can make it ourselves, to work as a complement to conventional money. It's just a matter of design. Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence

Inside Job

Vlatko — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:00:04 +0000

As he did with the occupation of Iraq in No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson shines a light on the global financial crisis in Inside Job. Accompanied by narration from Matt Damon, Ferguson begins and ends in Iceland, a flourishing country that gave American-style banking a try - and paid the price. Then he looks at the spectacular rise and cataclysmic fall of deregulation

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Crash: How Long Will It Last?

Vlatko — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:00:47 +0000

In the second half of this special two-part Dispatches, economist and author Will Hutton continues the definitive insider's account of how Britain's economy went from boom to bust. Hutton reveals how those who tried to warn of the impending financial disaster were shouted down, ignored or fired. As a result, the repercussions of the collapse of Lehman Brothers hit

How the Banks Won

Vlatko — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:00:42 +0000

As the government prepares an emergency budget to help pay for the bank bailout, Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they've done with our money. He discovers that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it's largely business as usual. Hutton analyses the banks' accounts and shows how they are using government-guaranteed funds

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How the Banks Never Lose

Vlatko — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:00:09 +0000

As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis. Reckless lending and risky investments have been blamed for directly driving up mortgage rates and increasing the numbers of people losing their homes. Dispatches investigates how the bank

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Let’s Make Money

Vlatko — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:00:27 +0000

Most of us don't know where their money is. However, one thing is for certain, it's is not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle of the global money market. Let’s Make Money is an anti-capitalist Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in 2008. It is about aspects of the development of the world wide

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The American Dream

Vlatko — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:00:59 +0000

The American Dream is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of the government system. From the author: All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did

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The Fall of Lehman Brothers

Vlatko — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:00:27 +0000

On September 15, 2008, the firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following the massive exodus of most of its clients, drastic losses in its stock, and devaluation of its assets by credit rating agencies. The filing marked the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The following day, the British bank Barclays announced its agreement to purchase, subject

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Top Documentary Films» Economics

RBS: Inside The Bank That Ran Out Of Money

The Party’s Over: How the West Went Bust

The Midas Formula: Trillion Dollar Bet

The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse

Million Dollar Traders

Debtocracy

An Inconvenient Death

The Money Fix

Inside Job

Crash: How Long Will It Last?

How the Banks Won

How the Banks Never Lose

Let’s Make Money

The American Dream

The Fall of Lehman Brothers