Following the money trail through history

Nobody knows anything. Historian Niall Ferguson didn’t actually say these three words at any point during - his whistlestop tour of the history of the global financial system- but he didn’t have to. The Ascent of Money (Channel 4)

Instead, the pictures did the talking, such as the shot of deregulator-in-chief Alan Greenspan smilingly receiving an award from Ken Lay, the chief executive of Enron, for ‘‘public services’’ in late 2001. A couple ...