1. BBC Documentary: The Love of Money (2009)
This 3-hour documentary looks at the world financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the events surrounding it - the Greenspan years, the collapse of Lehman, and the response by politicians. It features accounts from key players in the crisis - Alan Greenspan, Tim Geithner, Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown, and many more. It's no longer on the BBC iPlayer, but fortunately for everyone (especially those not in the UK, I found them on YouTube. (I typed the title of the episodes as used by the BBC, as well as the title used by the YouTube member in brackets)
Episode 1: The Bank That Bust the World [The Fall of Lehman]
Episode 2: The Age of Risk [The Boom and Bust Years]
Episode 3: Back from the Brink [The Last Days of the Banks]
2. iTunes U
A feature that was added to iTunes not too long ago, iTunes U is one of the places to go to for free, publicly-accessible web content (tutorials, talks, etc.) from some of the biggest universities/academies around. Obviously, some of these are way beyond A Level Economics. But you can watch them just to get a feel of what Economics (or whatever course you want to do) at Uni might be like, I guess
Some of the ones that I've downloaded (long ago and starting to watch now):
University of Warwick: The Global Credit Crunch and the Global Economy
MIT: The Economics Meltdown: What Have We Learnt, if Anything? by Paul Krugman
3. Spot of Economics Blog
A blog by one of the Econs teachers from my college, Mr Spottiswoode. It's more for the UK syllabus, so if you're reading this from Singapore, there may be some stuff that's a bit different/irrelevant (I don't think you'd care about the UK Balance of Trade as much as I have to for my exam). But still, it's a good read.
Hope you found the links useful!
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