money
Million Dollar Traders
Imagine The Apprentice with both A-Levels and consequences. Lex van Dam is clearly an interesting chap. He’s either very confident in his ability to train normal people how to make money in an amateur hedge fund that he’ll risk his money to proove a point, or he’s one of those worryingly rich people for whom [...]
The City Uncovered with Evan Davis: Tricks with Risk
I’ll be honest: pretty much any programme with helicopter shots of big cities will get my vote – especially if it’s also got Nassim “Black Swan” Taleb in it. Do they download the aerial shots off the Internet or something? It’s also got lovely Evan Davis riding a motorbike (quite slowly) and explaining derivatives and [...]
Men and Money – A Question of Confidence
Emma’s fashion post yesterday mentioned that there’s some good content in the BBC Archive. If you haven’t spotted it yet, the archive is gradually opening up some fascinating collections, into which I think we’ll be dipping from time to time. The Men and Money series was a glimpse into banking in Britain first aired in [...]
Super Rich: The Greed Game
Finally I can stop pretending to know what ‘sub prime’ means by using it for things that are a bit pony, and understand it properly instead. Sort of. This is very good at explaining the whole Northern Rock blah as simply as is possible for financial illiterates like me. Thankfully also, Robert Peston follows [...]
bookmarks by: delicious.com