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PeterLe
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Panorama Monday night - Gambling nation.
think it is more to do with online casinos, bingo...but worth a watch perhaps?
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Peter
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steven1976
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http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7896977/ ... _[PublicHD]

lay the favourite with bruce willis has to be a good one.
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steven1976
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We need a thread for stuff "NOT" to watch. Bruce let me down after all them die hards.
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Iron
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Andrew Mitchell 'stitched up' in plebgate row - http://www.channel4.com/news/andrew-mit ... ing-street

Michael Crick deserves an award for this brilliant piece of investigative journalism IMHO.

Jeff
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mcfc1981
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dexter is another good series, id put it up wiv breaking bad.
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steven1976
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a bit old now, but one of my favourites was Entourage. Hollywood stars living the dream.
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switesh
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Bird & Fortune - Silly Money - Investment Bankers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z70BKwfSUA

Absolutely hilarious, got an ab workout watching it :)

More similar videos:
Silly Money (2/4) - Bremner, Bird and Fortune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7lB1BHq6o
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Euler
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This was very entertaining: -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1742683/
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switesh
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I watched that a few weeks back. Paulson was in quite a pickle doing the right thing by letting Lehman go, until he had to give way to monetary easing to save the rest of the sharks on Wall St.

I watched a video on KhanAcademy once where Sal proposed an alternative solution like letting the big sharks fail (all of them), but injecting new money into newly formed banks with new and strict regulations in place to lend directly to new bushiness.
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Euler
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I used to think it would make sense to save certain companies, but I changed my mind in the aftermath of the dot com boom.

Lots of big companies went bankrupt, but went into chapter 11 and were able to re-appear in much better shape and vastly written down long term and current assets. This meant that the companies that had been prudent and survived suddenly had a much more nibble competitor who had effectively been financed by creditors who were left with nothing.

I do wonder why there shouldn't be a more severe outcomes if you act irresponsibly. But the back stop is that others benefit from your error, ensuring you don't prompt a systemic collapse.
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Euler
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This was interesting, if a little lightweight: -

https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_ ... cale=en-US

More social commentary, rather than any detailed facts. Shows up Greenspans errant thinking.
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steven1976
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How to buy a football club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... FV_3yG6xvU
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Euler
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Put things into perspective, doesn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-Uwq ... e=youtu.be
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gutuami
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some relaxing beautiful stuff about our Moon

http://vimeo.com/58385453
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superfrank
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Storyville - Queen of Versailles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ersailles/
Storyville: Documentary telling the story of a couple whose plans of building a mansion are hit by the economic crisis, as the virtues and flaws of the American Dream are exposed.
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