The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson Epsd 1 5 Full Documentary



Professor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world's financial system, and how behind every great historical phenomenon -- empires and republics, wars and revolutions -- there lies a financial secret. Episode 1: Dreams of Avarice. From Shylock's pound of flesh to the loan sharks of Glasgow, from the 'promises to pay' on Babylonian clay tablets to the Medici banking system, Professor Ferguson explains the origins of credit and debt and why credit networks are indispensable to any civilization. Episode 2: Human Bondage. How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschilds the richest and most powerful family of the 19th century. And today governments are asking it to bail them out. Episode 3: Blowing Bubbles. Why do stock markets produce bubbles and busts? Professor Ferguson goes back to the origins of the joint stock company in Amsterdam and Paris. He draws telling parallels between the current stock market crash and the 18th-century Mississippi Bubble of Scottish financier John Law and the 2001 Enron bankruptcy. He shows why humans have a herd instinct when it comes to investment, and why no one can accurately predict when the bulls might stampede. Episode 4: Risky Business. Life is a risky business -- which is why people take out insurance. But faced with an unexpected disaster, the state has to step in. Professor Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can't provide adequate protection against catastrophe. His quest for an answer takes him to the origins of modern insurance in the early 19th century and to the birth of the welfare state in post-war Japan. Episode 5: Safe As Houses. It sounded so simple: give state-owned assets to the people. After all, what better foundation for a property-owning democracy than a campaign of privatisation encompassing housing? An economic theory says that markets can't function without mortgages, because it's only by borrowing against their assets that entrepreneurs can get their businesses off the ground. But what if mortgages are bundled together and sold off to the highest bidder? Episode 6: Chimerica. Since the 1990s, once risky markets in Asia, Latin America and eastern Europe have become better investments than the UK or US stock market. The explanation is the rise of 'Chimerica', the economic marriage of China and the United States. But does it make sense for poor Chinese savers to lend to rich American spenders? http://www.RebelMystic.com

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  1. TLDW
  2. four hours? seriously? this goes on for FOUR FREAKIN' HOURS!?
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  4. I'm reading the book now, the current monetary system is really unfair, why I can not print money😂😂😂
  5. this mans moves way too much when he talks. All his head nods and shoulder rolls make me angry
  6. A really like this video. Everything about the financial market in just 4 hours.
  7. Sexy naked asian women at 2:54:36 lol
  8. Where can I find the violin soundtrack used in the documentary?
  9. Can anyone tell me briefly what the major milestones of the use of money are?

    Thank you
  10. Fantastic video. Worth the time.
  11. Usury and blaspheme was the reason Jews were kicked out of every place they've been. Leaching off of other people hard work and ideas!
  12. Outstanding video!
  13. Worth the 4 hours watching investment. Thank you.
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        into captivity they will go.
    If anyone is to be killed[c] with the sword,
        with the sword they will be killed.”[d]This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.The Beast out of the Earth11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.
  15. If your watching his for ECON*3730...
  16. Great documentary
  17. humans are screwed!
  18. if you let fear rule you, you are ruined!
  19. This guy goes to Bilderberger...take with a big grain of salt.
  20. His accent tends to get less and less English and more and more Scottish through to the end of this, lol


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