Articles with the Tag Banking & Business

The Day The Dollar Falls

Banking & Business
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Created on Friday, 27 March 2009 20:10

In this 2005 documentary VPRO Backlight (a Dutch television program) and a Dutch national newspaper, present a what-if scenario for the day the dollar collapses. Fiction meets facts in this 24-hour scenario. At 9AM a Singapore trader is ordered to sell a large amount of dollars which starts the downfall of the currency and this film shows the results for the world economy every following hour.

It ends in Amsterdam, where the only form of payment accepted by a taxi driver is cigarettes…

It's highly likely that history will catch up with this documentary, albeit in slow-motion.

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

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Created on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:41

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster" but to most Americans today, 'Federal Reserve' is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, to their own economic lives, how and why it was founded and operates, or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation and business cycles that the Fed generates.

 

Money As Debt

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Created on Friday, 17 April 2009 19:45

Money as Debt I

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation explains in very simple terms what money is and how it is created.

Money as Debt II – Promises Unleashed

Money as Debt III – Evolution Beyond Money

Money as Debt III, the third and final movie in the Money as Debt trilogy, presents a comprehensive picture of how money could “work” in the future.

It’s a blueprint full of surprising specifics for creating a whole new system applied with technologies that exist right now. The ideas that are presented in this documentary open the door to a self-generating, self-balancing, and most of all sustainable global monetary system backed by real value and open to all.

Money as Debt III demonstrates in simple terms why the current set up of the global financial system is the root cause of the global financial turmoil. It shows that there is now – and there has long been – an alternative way “to do money”.

Breaking The Bank

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Created on Saturday, 05 September 2009 02:13

In Breaking the Bank, Frontline producer Michael Kirk (Inside the Meltdown, Bush's War) draws on a rare combination of high-profile interviews with key players Ken Lewis and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to reveal the story of two banks at the heart of the financial crisis, the rocky merger and the government's new role in taking over — some call it "nationalizing" — the American banking system.

It all began on that fateful weekend in September 2008 when the American economy was on the verge of melting down. Then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, his former protégé John Thain and Ken Lewis, one of the most powerful bankers in the country, secretly cut a deal to merge Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.

"This is more than a story about just one man or one bank," says producer Michael Kirk. "This is the story of the most important change in the relationship between government and private business in a generation."

Watch the Full Program Online: BREAKING THE BANK