Midas Formula, The

Synopsis: Story of the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which appeared to remove the risk from playing the money markets, thus making possible massive financial gains. Its inventors teamed up with Wall Street dealers to from LTCM, a company that traded billions, but when things went wrong, LTCM collapsed and endangered the entire global economy.
Series: Horizon, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1999
Availability: Sale; 2007 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 2/12/99.
Subjects: Business studies
Keywords: financial markets

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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