quantitative finance
1:18:02The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
7.9M views • 8 years ago
Independent POV
A feature-length documentary on how the City of London and Britain's overseas territories built a global web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions after the empire declined. It traces how this network captured and hid wealth from around the world.
47:49Quants | The Alchemists of Wall Street | VPRO documentary
2.7M views • 16 years ago
vpro documentary
A VPRO documentary on quantitative analysts who designed the mathematical models and high-speed trading systems behind modern finance. It features figures such as Paul Wilmott and asks what risks come from treating markets as a machine.
31:45How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One
3.8M views • 7 years ago
Tokyo Llama
The Tokyo Llama channel details how the creators found and bought an abandoned akiya minka house in Japan. It covers process, costs, taxes, financing and risks of renovation.
2:40:29HyperNormalisation 2016
2.3M views • 10 years ago
crisalist
Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation, about 160 minutes long. It cuts together roughly forty years of politics, finance and technology to argue that people have retreated into a simplified fake world.