![]() ![]() However, there are many interesting historical stories which are either interesting for their own sake, or because they tie-in with what went wrong during the 2008-09 crisis. ![]() After the first episode, the rest of the series hones in on the reasons for this crisis. It's as if the nature of the series all of a sudden changed in the wake of the global financial crisis. The first episode didn't really hold any interest for me, which is why I'm not scoring this series a perfect 10/10. Well, in "The ascent of money", film maker Niall Ferguson doesn't target such straw men.if you want an extremely detailed and forensic account of the many reasons why the financial markets collapsed in 2008, Ferguson is your man. If you've seen Michael Moore's excellent documentary "Capitalism: A love story", you may remember Moore asking an expert what a "derivative" was and being amused by that expert's inability to describe it. Good thing I made some notes to jog my memory. Thought I'd get around to reviewing this excellent six part series I watched in mid 2009. ![]()
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