Economics
Video: 25 Million Pounds – The story of Nick Leeson and Barrings Bank
Barrack Obama and Ben Bernanke are the USA's Nick Leeson.
Video
Video: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
An interesting documentary. It is chock full of liberal bug a boos! That part is funny. Wikipedia entry. Stiglitz is always an idiot Why are all the anti capitalist / pro government documentaries narrated by Michael Palin? It is deceptive to say the video is about "the rise of Read more…
Open-Source
Video: Arduino – Open Source Hardware Business Model and Revolution in the Making
You can see a huge number of Arduino projects on youtube.
Economics
Video: The Black and Scholes Equation for pricing Stock Options – Attack of the Quants Revenge of the Traders – The story of Long Term Capital Management
An important lesson that I have learned from secondary sources can be synthesized with the lessons of the history portrayed in this video. Once a trading pattern is discovered by and used by others its effectiveness goes away. An example of this would be if the market always went Read more…