This is the last post in our series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.
In this episode, titled Chimerica, we take a look at the globalization of finance and learn a bit about both the good and bad parts of options, hedge funds, and diversification. [...]

Continuing with our series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, we now take look at the historical build-up that caused the housing bubble of recent years.
In this episode, titled Safe As Houses, Ferguson explains how the landscape in the housing market [...]

In this post, we continue with our feature of the video series based on the book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.
So far this series, Ferguson has taught us about the origins of money, the practice of lending, the emergence of banks, the invention of bonds, [...]