In today’s complex financial landscape, understanding the dynamics of money, banking, and their broader societal impacts is crucial. This article delves into a selection of insightful videos that explore various aspects of finance, banking, Bitcoin, and economic systems. Each video features expert perspectives, from lectures and panel discussions to documentary features and interviews.
The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About it — with Anat Admati
KCL School of Politics & Economics
Economist Anat Admati delivered a lecture at King’s College London on their book (co-authored by Martin Hellwig): The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About it. In the book, Admati and Hellwig examine how new bank failures proved to be a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we’d never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers’ New Clothes uncovers just how little things have changed—and why they believe banks are still dangerous.
How Money & Banking Work (& why they’re broken today)
Lyn Alden Media
In this 30-minute explainer video, Lyn Alden takes a step back through history and looks into the intricacies of money and banking, offering an answer to an overlooked but extremely important question: What is money? This video takes core ideas from Lyn’s recent book “Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better” and distills them into an easy to consume format. Read Lyn’s Book “Broken Money” here.
Natalie Smolenski: Bitcoin as Pristine Collateral for a Society of Broken Money and Values
Natalie Brunell — Coin Stories
In this episode with founder and anthropologist Natalie Smolenski, powered by Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), they discuss: how to value Bitcoin; the symptoms of broken money in society—corruption and grift; why Bitcoin is not the obvious answer; Bitcoin as ‘Pristine Collateral’; and whether credit will be as widely used on a Bitcoin Standard. Natalie Smolenski is a startup and non-profit founder and economic anthropologist focusing on how people create value and govern themselves. She founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
Is Democracy for Sale? Fighting for a Fair Economy
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Corporations and Society Initiative (CASI) hosted a panel discussion on the challenges of creating a prosperous, fair, and trustworthy system. Featuring Patrick Alley (co-founder of Global Witness), David Leonhardt (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and senior writer for The New York Times), and Bethany McLean (celebrated author and investigative journalist known for her critical examination of corporate scandals and the financial system).
Bitcoin is Liberty for the Digital Age | Natalie Smolenski at The Bitcoin Policy Summit 2024
Bitcoin Magazine
Recorded at the Bitcoin Policy Summit by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (4/9/2024), Natalie Smolenski, Executive Director of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, argues that peer-to-peer interaction is the cornerstone of a healthy, flourishing, and free society. Under the rise of digital authoritarianism and encroachment on fundamental constitutional rights, Bitcoin serves as a bulwark against rising oppression, censorship, and surveillance. Around the world, freedom fighters are using the power of a decentralized network to freely communicate value.
Power and Politics in Banking
Stanford Graduate School of Business
A CASI conversation exploring banking crises, bailouts, failed regulations, and the role of Central Banks with Faculty Director Anat Admati and Kevin Warsh, former governor of the Federal Reserve, moderated by Professor Amit Seru.
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
Principles by Ray Dalio
“How the Economic Machine Works” — created by Ray Dalio, this simple but not simplistic, easy-to-follow 30-minute animated video answers the question: “How does the economy really work?” Based on Dalio’s practical template for understanding the economy, developed over the course of his career, the video breaks down economic concepts like credit, deficits, and interest rates, allowing viewers to learn the basic driving forces behind the economy, how economic policies work, and why economic cycles occur.
Decoding Davos: Peter Goodman on Billionaires and Global Power
Stanford Graduate School of Business
CASI hosted a conversation with Peter Goodman, journalist and author of Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World. Goodman investigated the World Economic Forum—the annual gathering of elites in Davos, Switzerland—and offered critical insights into how the world’s most powerful people use their influence and resources to further their own interests.
The Corporation | Feature Documentary
Cool World
One of the most impactful documentaries ever made, The Corporation launched 21 years ago. Based on Joel Bakan’s bestseller The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, this 26-award-winning documentary explores a corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts, and possible futures. One hundred and fifty years ago, a corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic, and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy, and the Communist Party in other times and places, a corporation is today’s dominant institution.
The New Corporation | The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
Bitcoin & Human Rights with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski
What Bitcoin Did
“If we stick with the financial system as it is, it leads inexorably towards total control of your life…the state having total control over what people spend, how they can spend it, how much they can spend, and what you can buy.” — Alex Gladstein. Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Natalie Smolenski founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin is a cheat code for human rights, privacy, sovereignty, and the reciprocal loss of trust.
Business Government and Society Forum: Conversation with Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chair
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jerome Powell speaks with Stanford GSB professor Arvind Krishnamurthy on the challenges of leading the Federal Reserve, the principles by which they make economic decisions for the benefit of society, and his personal leadership journey.
Geopolitics and Its Impact on Global Trade and the Dollar — Gita Gopinath
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Gita Gopinath is the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In that role she oversees the work of staff, represents the Fund at multilateral forums, maintains high-level contacts with member governments and Board members, and leads the Fund’s work on surveillance and related policies.
The Psychology of Money
Pursuit of Wonder
In this video, we explore the role money has in society, its effects on our individual lives, the challenges associated with acquiring it, and the paradoxes often found when using it. Do we need money in life to be happy? How much do we need? And how should we use it?
Why We Don’t Trust Each Other Anymore
Kyla Scanlon
We are saying everything, but also saying nothing at all. How do we fix that? Words are a way to confer meaning that often gets separated from the concept the word represents until we are just sort of talking at each other. Language is failing us. Narratives are collapsing. In this piece, Kyla Scanlon discusses the forces of education, media, and the nostalgia cycle loop—focusing on the attention economy and how the failure of language has impacted how we understand the economy and each other, ultimately eroding trust, the most expensive commodity in the world right now.
Each of these videos provides valuable insights into the interplay between financial systems, societal values, and the evolving role of technology in our economy.
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