Ep 139: Our Favorite Movies about Money

Join Dave and Nick as they discuss a few of their favorite movies about money. Do you have any to add to the list? Drop them in the comments.

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1. Wallstreet – this is what everybody in our generation thought being a stockbroker was all about.


2. Glengarry Glen Ross – the story about four days in the lives of these guys who are working for a real estate investment firm doing developments


3. The Big Short – this movie does a really good job of explaining some really complex baloney that was going on at the time with collateralized default options and different mortgage back security structures.


4. Boiler Room – a kid who dropped out of college and gets a job working as a stockbroker and finds out that the brokerage firm he’s working for is basically scamming people by running what we call a pump-and-dump scheme.


5. Moneyball – is one of the best investing Allegory movies we’ve ever seen.


6. Pursuit of Happiness – real-life salesman Chris Gardner lives in San Francisco in 1981 and is selling a medical machine. It’s not going very well. His wife’s very upset with him about his decision to spend their life savings on like 10 of these machines.


7. Dumb Money – based on the true story of the GameStop stock.

Check out the episode we did on that topic: The Game Stop Problem.

If you have any movies that you think we should throw on the list or that we miss, we’d love to hear about it. Shoot us an email at [email protected] or hit us up on socials. We’re on Facebook and Instagram so you can find us there.

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