Summary: With an international credit crunch hamstringing many Western entrepreneurs, a new wave of investment is flooding the U.K., largely from the Middle East and Asia. This program focuses on sovereign wealth funds and their role in what many see as a financial takeover of Britain's economy-including some of its most cherished icons and institutions. Beginning with a surprising case study-the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: CNBC's Becky Quick travels with iconic billionaire Warren Buffett during a business trip to China and South Korea. Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door-Going Global provides an inside look at the whirlwind tour, showcases Buffett's views on investing and wealth management, and offers a succinct case study of his first international acquisition, Iscar Metalworking. In an extended interview...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Attitudes about ethical investing are evolving slowly, but activity in the long-term market is a sign of positive change. In this program Hazel Henderson and Bryan Martel, CEO of the Environmental Capital Group, discuss the use of pension funds to address potential ecological concerns. Martel’s five-point scale for classifying assets ranges from those that would actively restore eco-balance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A growing number of investment firms and individual investors are guided by the triple bottom line of human dignity, environmental stewardship, and financial profit. This program looks at the growth of socially responsible investing, or SRI, as a successful approach for portfolio managers, venture capitalists, and individual investors. Outlining the "three pillars" of SRI-company screening,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: After spending nearly two decades as a corporate stockbroker, John Fullerton became convinced of the need to link economic power to environmental stewardship. In this program Hazel Henderson speaks with Fullerton, who went on to found the Capital Institute, about the socially-conscious investing movement. Some of the topics touched on are the relevance of a market-based economy, the political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: One of the most surprising aspects of 21st-century capitalism is the emergence of shareholders who are concerned about corporate behavior and accountability. This program investigates that trend, assembling a collection of researchers and business leaders who share valuable insights into shareholder activism. Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Co-op America, and Linda Crompton, CEO of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In the mid-1980s, the markets were soaring with no end in sight. Then came October 19th, 1987. This CNBC Original documentary examines the biggest stock market crash in U.S. history, as told through firsthand accounts from traders, reporters who covered the story, and such power brokers as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, former NYSE chairman John Phelan, and Leo Melamed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What better way to understand a financial disaster than to meet the kind of people who created it? This CNBC Original documentary investigates the origins of the global economic crisis through eyewitness accounts from mortgage brokers, investment bankers, naive home buyers, and equally naive investors-as well as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who encouraged shifts away from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: At the height of the dotcom mania, Silicon Alley ran with gold, the "new economy" ruled Wall Street, and business as usual was declared dead. A sequel to The Internet Money Machine, this cautionary program tracks the fortunes of TheGlobe.com and Pseudo.com after the bubble burst; bottom-feeder Overstock.com, which profited from the tech wreck; and DigitalCity.com, which sold out to AOL before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Focusing on the subprime mortgage crisis, this edition of the Journal travels to Cleveland, Ohio-the heart of the nation's mortgage meltdown. Correspondent Rick Karr examines the state of Slavic Village, where more than 1,000 homes stand vacant and decaying in a neighborhood that once thrived with families living the American dream of home ownership. Then, Bill Moyers gets perspective on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Stocks and bonds, money market and mutual funds, IRAs and Roth IRAs, CDs and annuities, and good-old-fashioned passbook accounts-this program helps students make sense of the many ways to save and invest money. With input from financial experts about the risks and rewards of each, the video defines terms viewers may have heard but not understood, such as compound interest, capital gains and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: With mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, the implications for financial markets-and for ordinary Americans-are far-reaching and severe. For insight into this potential meltdown, Bill Moyers talks with New York Times assistant business and financial editor Gretchen Morgenson, who has covered the story. In addition, Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Filled with straightforward guidance and practical knowledge, this program empowers young adults to get their financial lives on track and "give purpose to every penny." Hosted by actor Donald Faison (Clueless and TV's Scrubs), the video raises fiscal awareness and builds financial skills in a wide variety of areas-from banking and credit to investing, budgeting, insurance, and self-employment....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program explains how the U.S. subprime market grew from the post-9/11 rise of easy credit, which was then exploited by predatory lenders; subsequent widespread defaults and foreclosures; the attendant market correction; and the resulting threat of recession. Yale University's Robert Schiller; BusinessWeek's Matthew Goldstein; Nouriel Roubini, of the Stern School of Business; JPMorgan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: How did fraudulent investment manager Bernard Madoff get away with such an enormous scam for so many years? This CNBC Original program examines the bizarre details of Madoff's operation while exploring his motives and mind-set. Interviews feature expert guests and key players affected by the scandal, including publisher and investor Mort Zuckerman; Forbes editor Robert Lenzner; financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What are the mechanisms that drive international finance? Does worldwide capital mobility destabilize the global economy? Do the benefits to investors outweigh the potential for monetary crises? This program illustrates the flow of international capital, analyzes the risks it presents to banking and currency systems, and studies international political structures created to address those risks....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: On Wall Street, private equity firms are buying up corporations and turning them around for huge profits-while America's economic disparities widen. Bill Moyers talks with maverick labor leader Andrew Stern, president of the rapidly growing Service Employees International Union, about the looming gap between working families and the wealthiest Americans. Also on the program: Writer, activist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Regulators, policymakers, and commercial bankers are the insiders who define American financial structure, and others are effected tremendously by their decisions-especially when reckless short-termism such as oil speculation negatively impacts their assets. In this program Hazel Henderson talks with banker Steve Waddell, author of Societal Learning and Change, about steering modern economics...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010