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Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve

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Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chair... Read allNearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and l... Read allNearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For No... Read all
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    • Director
      • Jim Bruce
    • Writer
      • Jim Bruce
    • Stars
      • Liev Schreiber(voice)
      • Paul Volcker
      • Janet Yellen
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      • Jim Bruce
    • Writer
      • Jim Bruce
    • Stars
      • Liev Schreiber(voice)
      • Paul Volcker
      • Janet Yellen
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    Liev Schreiber
    Liev Schreiber
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Paul Volcker
    Paul Volcker
    • Self - Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)
    Janet Yellen
    Janet Yellen
    • Self - Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
    Peter Atwater
    • Self - Former Head of Asset Finance - J.P. Morgan
    Alan Blinder
    • Self - Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1994-1996)
    Tony Boeckh
    • Self - Economist - The Boeckh Investment Letter
    Michael Bordo
    • Self - Professor of Economics - Rutgers University
    Dave Colander
    • Self - Professor of Economics - Middlebury College
    Peter Fisher
    • Self - Executive V.P. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-2001)
    Richard Fisher
    • Self
    Marvin Goodfriend
    • Self - Senor V.P. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1993-2005)
    Jim Grant
    Jim Grant
    • Self - Economist…
    Jeremy Grantham
    • Self - Chief Investment Strategist - GMO
    Todd Harrison
    • Self - Derivatives Trader…
    Thomas Hoenig
    • Self - President - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1991-2011)
    • (as Tom Hoenig)
    Jeffrey Lacker
    • Self - President - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
    John Mauldin
    • Self - Chairman - Mauldin Economics…
    Martin Mayer
    • Self - Author - The Fed…
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      In the short segment about the 1910 private rail car trip of several important bankers, plus Senator Nelson Aldrich, from Hoboken, New Jersey to Jekyll Island, Georgia, two pieces of old black-and-white film footage of train travel are used to illustrate the trip, with one of those pieces showing curving tracks in a mountainous landscape. There are no curving tracks in a mountainous landscape on any normal rail route from Hoboken to Jekyll Island.

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    What I Continue to Hear
    This documentary along with "The Flaw" and "Too Big to Fail" help to explain the causes behind the '08 housing and financial collapse. "Money for Nothing" puts a spotlight on the Federal Reserve, or the "Fed" for short. Various economists chime in about the policies of primarily Alan Greenspan while he was the Fed chair. As one economist put it:

    "The nation's most powerful banking regulator considered regulation obsolete."

    But that wasn't entirely true. He practiced hands off until the banks were in trouble, then it was all hands on deck. If banks got into hot water with risky practices they could rely upon the "Greenspan put." This prompted one economist to say:

    "This alleged libertarian was presiding over the socialization of risk in our economy."

    While another stated, "Banks were spared of the free market's rule of survival of the fittest."

    It's an interesting documentary while still being upsetting because yet again you see that there are a different set of rules for banks and corporations than for the rest of us. If banks make bad bets, "Don't worry about it, you have a safety net." If you make bad financial decisions, "You need to make smarter decisions, you peon."

    At least that's what I continue to hear.

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    • Release date
      • September 6, 2013 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Деньги за бесценок
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      • $88,045
    • Gross worldwide
      • $88,045
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      1 hour 44 minutes
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