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Re: What is your favourite film based on the Stockmarket ?
If you're deeply interested in the stock market or corporate finance, you should try watching "Barbarians at the Gate." It is a 1993 movie about the Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) of RJR Nabisco. It is based on a book by the same name. "Barbarians" is supposed to be a very good depiction of the whole LBO craze that shook business for awhile. I must confess that even being interested in corporate finance, I couldn't watch more than 5 minutes of it. Maybe it gets better as it progresses.
"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" was pretty awesome. I had a number of associates who went to work for Enron and some other energy traders. I saw a lot of similarity between the people in the movie and the Enron'ers I knew. My favorite part was the Mark-To-Market Black Box comercial Skilling made, "you just decide what you want your profits to be, put everything in this black box, and now you have the return you need." {paraphrased}
"Rogue Trader" was a fantastic book. The movie was a bit of a letdown. It was cool to see some shots of Singapore.
If they could only make a movie about "The Ugly Americans:The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions." Now, that could be a great movie.
Nice thread,
Bam-Bam
* "The whole game of arbitrage is spotting who the a--hole is. If you can't spot the a--hole, well, then you're the a--hole." - Dean Carney (Ugly Americans)
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