The Ascent of Money

The Ascent of Money - Episode 1: Dreams of avarice.
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In this extraordinarily prescient series, The Acent of Money, Professor Niall Ferguson shows how the history of money has been punctuated by gut-wrenching crises and crashes. From the origins of banks to the rise of 'Chimerica', each programme deals with a financial 'big bang' that has changed the course of history. He begins by examining the origins of banking and the innovative concepts of credit and debt which underpin the world economy and have driven progress for millennia.

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The Ascent of Money - Episode 2: Human Bondage
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Niall Ferguson's history of finance continues. This week, he tells the story of government bonds. Invented when the city states of Italy were fighting each other in the early Renaissance, bonds meant that instead of being taxed, citizens effectively lent money to their government to fight wars, on the assumption that the government would pay them back in due course. So was created a way to buy and sell government debt, a market that was dominated in the 19th century by the Rothschild family, whose financial weight duly helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.

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The Ascent of Money - Episode 3: Blowing Bubbles
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Niall Ferguson explores stock market bubbles by tracing the rise and fall of two of the most famous investment companies in history, the Dutch East India and the French Mississippi. Finding parallels between the American crash of the 18th century and the more recent Enron scandal, he uses theories of behavioural finance to explain the human herding instinct when it comes to investment.

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The Ascent of Money - Episode 4: Risky Business
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Niall Ferguson visits New Orleans to explore how insurance can be inadequate cover for catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina, looking at what happens when the state is forced to step in. He examines the development of the welfare system in post-war Japan and studies Chilean reforms in the 1970s and 1980s, before assessing the role of hedge funds as reliable protection against an uncertain future.

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The Ascent of Money - Episode 5: Safe as houses
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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?

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The Ascent of Money - Episode 6: Chimerica
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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?

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