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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Ascent of Money


Today I watched The Ascent of Money with Niall Ferguson,
a resident faculty professor of History at
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard.
His book by the same name has been recently published and the video aired on PBS.

In the span of two hours he speaks of our first use of lending money with interest was a religious divide, unallowed by Christians, through the early sale of Louisiana with John Law, causing the first real estate bubble, to today's securitization trusts and the derivatives market.

Last week on Fareed Zakaria's show, GPS he spoke with Dr. Ferguson.

Currently, I'm watching My Man Godfrey (1936)