Professor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial system, and how behind every great historical phenomenon – empires and republics, wars and revolutions – that’s the financial secrecy.

Episode 1: The dreams of avarice. Pounds of flesh to Shylock Glasgow loan sharks, the “undertaking” in Babylonian clay tablets that the Medici banking system, Professor Ferguson explains the origin of credit and debt and why the networks are indispensable credit for any civilization.

Episode 2: Human Bondage. How to finance the kingdom become the masters of the universe? Through the bond market rise in Renaissance Italy. With the arrival of the bonds financing the war was transformed and spread to northwestern Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschild family richest and most powerful of the 19th century. And governments today are calling for rescue.

Episode 3: Blowing Bubbles. Why stock market bubbles and crashes occur? Professor Ferguson is back to the origins of the corporation in Amsterdam and Paris. Saca said parallels between the current stock market crash and the bubble of the 18th century Scotsman John Law Mississippi financial collapse of Enron and 2001. It shows why humans have a herd instinct when it comes to investing, and why can not predict exactly when the bulls can stampede.

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