The Wolf of Wall Street [Trailer]

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this is a film version of the book "The Wolf of Wall Street" by Jordan Belfort. Jordan Belfort founded the firm Stratton Oakmont, a boiler room operation which employed over 1000 stock brokers. Belfort was indicted in 1998 for securities fraud and money laundering. Basically this guy was one of the bad apples of Wall Street - and this movie tells his tale.

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

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Dot-Com Bubble Documentary

The evolution of the Internet and emergence of online businesses brought with them a phenomenon typical of new industries and technologies - a stock market bubble. Indeed the dot-com bubble is one of the largest stock market bubbles of recent history (with the subsequent crash likewise one of the most harsh). But what happened and why? This documentary adds to the list of resources on the tech boom and bust, and makes for interesting and informative viewing - after all it's best to learn from these types of things so you can identify them in the future and gain a better appreciation for the functioning of markets, the various market participants, and of course human (crowd) psychology. See also: Dot Coms Gone Bust, What Happened (Dot Com Boom and Bust), and The Internet Money Machine.

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Traders - Episode 1x04 - The King is Dead...

Traders is a Canadian television investment banking drama series shot and aired in the late 1990s. It is an interesting and entertaining TV series based on a fictional investment bank "Gardner Ross". It is one of a handful of investment banking focused dramas, and is credible enough to be interesting and somewhat informative, but most of all, entertaining.

Season 1, Episode 4: Ben is moved from the trading floor at the exchange to a trading desk at the firm as Sally promised. After having lost the case the against Cedric, the securities commission puts Gardner Ross under further scrutiny. In doing so, they uncover Marty's trades in the Navadyne while it was restricted. Susannah Marks, the firm's analyst, suspects a company's reported financial numbers are cooked and resists pressure from the others to make a buy recommendation. Sally backs her. They later find out she was right. Susannah gets a call from an accented man claiming that a recommendation she made cause him to lose money. He threateningly tells her to make a positive recommendation on a construction company. Susannah finds a funds transfer document that has been misfiled and gives it to Sally. After seeing it Sally goes to a ministry that her father allegedly embezzled funds from to talk to the Reverend, who is under RCMP surveillance..


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Moon For Sale

The final frontier of commerce - space - is attracting increasing attention. In the coming decades it's possible we might see the start of a galactic real estate boom. Or perhaps if you believe in the work done by Dennis Hope - a pioneer of space real estate. Although the issues are complex e.g. sovereignty, property rights, someday soon these issues could be a day to day fact of doing business out of this world. But as interesting as extraterrestrial real estate is, another potential boom area could be space-sourced commodities. In this documentary they talk about Helium-3 (a potential energy source), but already there is a company set up to investigate and mine asteroids. It's hard to say when the technology will exist to bring space commodities down to earth, but it's worth keeping an eye on as it would have clear implications for terrestrial commodity and financial markets. Indeed, the next big stock market sector could be something like space resources. In the mean time enjoy this documentary on moon commerce.

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Made For Play - Board Games and Modern Industry

The board game industry continues to battle on despite the effects of the arrival of new disruptive technologies like the Internet and ipads, electronic gaming etc. The board game industry remains a global industry with complex manufacturing, logistics, and distribution systems. This documentary provides an interesting look at this industry, how a game goes from an idea to mass production, and how the industry is striving to stay relevant to consumers in the electronic age. It's a pretty good case study of modern industry, and is quite eye opening in terms of all the people involved and all the machines and inputs at each stage of the manufacturing process.

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