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.
Ascent of Money: Episode 2
Duration 50 minutes.
Certificate UC
Released 2008
Contents - 1 x DVD
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