Think Harry Markopolos is an American hero for continuously warning SEC regulators for years about Bernie Madoff’s record breaking Ponzi scheme, which eventually defrauded investors out of about $50 BILLION dollars?
Then you’ll be even more impressed with Brooksley Born, an American heroine and former head of the CFTC, who put everything on the line in [...]
A world that’s more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family’s mortgage is all in a day’s work.
FLOORED, at a time when markets are unhinged, offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they’ve got guts, and [...]
Michael Moore’s interview on ABC News, Good Morning America.
“Michael Moore’s provocative new film ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ — it is a fierce attack on our economic system at a time when many Americans are wondering what what wrong on Wall Street and why our economy was nearly brought to the brink of collapse last year.
Many [...]
Get the 411 of personal finance watching YOUR LIFE, YOUR MONEY.
Premiering Wednesday, September 9th at 9 pm ET/PT on PBS, YOUR LIFE, YOUR MONEY tells the stories of six diverse young people who are facing the many challenges that come with making, managing, and getting the most out of money. You can also watch the [...]
On Dec. 11, 2008, Bernard L. Madoff confessed that his vaunted investment business was all “one big lie,” a Ponzi scheme colossal in volume and scope that cost investors $65 billion. Overnight, Madoff became the new poster child for Wall Street gall, greed and corruption.
Madoff was repeatedly investigated by the SEC, but it found nothing [...]
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To Catch a Dollar
Muhammad Yunus banks on America, trying to establish a “trickle-up” effect – a 2010 Sundance Film Festival premier documentary.
Documentary Spotlight:
What prevents poor people from getting ahead? Banks refuse to give credit without collateral. Where commercial banks see insolvency, Nobel Prize–winning economist Muhammad Yunus sees opportunity.
His groundbreaking Grameen Bank was built on the radical notion that [...]