Greg Davies on Behavioural Finance
The head of Behavioural Finance at Barclays Wealth says hot-brained humans often buy and sell right when they shouldn’t.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Greg Davies | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Economics, Finance
1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States;
Its from a PBS documentary. This particular part is from episode 5 of the series titled Cosmopolis. [Hat tip to FinanceProfessor.com]
Content: Multimedia Content | Source: PBS | Subjects: Economics, Finance, History
Money Factory
Money: everyone wants it, dreams of it and schemes for it. Find out how U.S. currency is made, faked and protected, and meet the mastermind behind one of the biggest counterfeit operations in U.S. history. [Hat tip to FinanceProfessor.com]
Content: Multimedia Content | Source: National Geographic Channel | Subjects: Economics, Finance
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn
This slideshow from Sequoia Capital has become quite famous and is, naturally, quite a bit topical. Still, there are some great slides showing long-term economic statistics that could be of long-lasting interest and the overall analysis might be instructive in the future as well given the cyclical nature of economics.
Content: Multimedia Content | Source: Sequoia Capital | Subject: Economics
PBS Free to Choose 1990 Vol. 3 of 5 – The Failure of Socialism
Free To Choose® is an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. IT is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. And it is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed.
This is the third of 5 episodes and includes an introduction by Ronald Reagan … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, Sam Bowles | Source: PBS | Subject: Economics
PBS Free to Choose 1990 Vol. 2 of 5 – The Tyranny of Control
Free To Choose® is an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. IT is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. And it is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed.
This is the second of 5 episodes and includes an introduction by George Schultz … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Michael Walker, Milton Friedman, Steve Cohen | Source: PBS | Subject: Economics
PBS Free to Choose 1990 Vol. 1 of 5 – The Power of the Market
Free To Choose® is an award winning PBS television series featuring Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. IT is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. And it is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed.
This is the first of 5 episodes and includes an introduction by Arnold Schwarzenegger … [ Read more ]
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: David Brooks, James Galbraith, Milton Friedman | Source: PBS | Subject: Economics