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The Ascent of Money
2008
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The Ascent of Money
Human Bondage 1 Season 2 Episode
49 min
2008
8.6
How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschilds the richest and most powerful family of the 19th century. And today governments are asking it to bail them out.
