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Wall Street Fraud & Moral Corruption Runs Deep

October 18, 2010 · 5 comments

in CEO pay, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, US Treasury, US economy, bailout, banks, brokers, bubble, central banks, collapse, ethics, executive compensation, films, financial education, government, leadership, money lessons, regulation, reviews, risk, wealth transfer

Review of The Inside Job by Charles Ferguson (2010).
Despite the fact that it’s a trite truism that Wall Street is fueled by greed and “greed makes the world – or at least the markets – go round,” it’s merely the tip of the iceberg of moral depravity and social corruption that has been exposed on [...]

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Money Never Sleeps – But Forward Thinking Does

September 25, 2010 · 3 comments

in US economy, bubble, capitalism, collapse, entertainment, films, market reports, money lessons, money mistakes, recession

Gordon Gekko turns from bull*hitter to born-again permabear and back again in Oliver Stone’s latest Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), a film with as many mixed messages as the S&P over the past year.
The plot of the entire film is driven by the ups and downs of the market – a mix of unpredictable [...]

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Investing in Theatres Everywhere: Check Out These Movie Production Companies and Film Industry Stocks

September 29, 2009

in Canadian economy, US economy, entertainment, films, investing, stocks

While there are a host of well-known giants in entertainment that you could invest in, and many of them, of course, own motion picture divisions (such as Sony Pictures), I wanted to focus here on stocks of publicly-traded companies whose business is primarily film.  That is already quite the filter and removes many blockbuster companies [...]

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What I Learned About the Economy From Watching Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner, 2009)

June 30, 2009 · 17 comments

in agriculture, business, capitalism, commodities, economy, films, health, infrastructure, nutrition, survival

NB: As you can imagine from watching a film like Food, Inc., it can be hard to separate the emotion and just report “calmly” on the plain facts presented by the film.  Originally I wrote this the same day I saw it, but I’ve since gone back and edited it to try to tone down [...]

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