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

September 29, 2009 · 0 comments

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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