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Money For Nothing: Inside The Federal Reserve is an independent, non partisan documentary film that examines America's central bank in a critical, yet balanced way.
Narrated by the acclaimed actor Liev Schreiber, and featuring interviews with Paul Volcker, Janet Yellen, Jeremy Grantham and many of the world's best financial minds, Money For Nothing is the first film ever to take viewers inside the world's most powerful financial institution.
Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the US 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.- Details
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In the last few decades, and especially from the late 1970s with the rise of Thatcherism and Reaganism, the business world has been under the spell of neo-liberalism, obsessed with economic reform, growth, an ever-expanding free-market liberalism, structural adjustment policies, privatisation, deregulation, profit maximisation, cost minimisation and the highest bonuses for short-termism, amongst others.
These have led to the business community to believe-by and large- that there is competition between being efficient and profitable, and being for the common good.
And now to the story of Randy Lewis: former Vice President of Walgreens, USA
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Yesterday (8 June 2014) my wife and I were driving along the beautiful Oxfordshire country roads on our way to Waterperry House, while listening to BBC Radio 2 ‘Good Morning Sunday’ with Clare Balding. Every Sunday Clare talks to guests about their life and beliefs exploring, through conversation, matters of faith and spirituality.- Details
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My Guest Blogger Ian Mason
Ian Mason, Principal, School of Economic Science
Writing this paper brings vividly to mind schooldays spent in Scotland’s central highlands. The school was set in an idyllic location on the shores of Loch Rannoch, surrounded by the Black Wood, a small remnant of the ancient Caledonian forest that established itself across most of central and northern Scotland and much of Northern Europe when the glaciers retreated around ten thousand years ago. Surrounded by ancient, meditative mountains, it was an essential part of a Rannoch education to be exposed to the elements in all weathers; to experience directly the wild beauty of nature, the utter tranquillity of still waters on a windless evening and the limitlessness of vast star-lit skies.
It was there I learnt (although I would not have put it that way at the time) to find- An Invitation to Dialogue: Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Cooperation for the Common Good
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