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Best economic/monetary documentaries

Posted on 12/31/16 at 8:15 pm
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 12/31/16 at 8:15 pm
Saw Enron.
Saw How To catch a Trader
Watching one right now on the Federal Reserve
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63395 posts
Posted on 12/31/16 at 9:44 pm to
Have you watched Margin Call? It feels like it knows its stuff so kind of plays like a docudrama.
Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
66439 posts
Posted on 12/31/16 at 11:11 pm to
anything that bashes Keynesians and promotes Austrian economics is good to go.

quote:

Watching one right now on the Federal Reserve


hopefully it's putting the Fed on blast
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
18572 posts
Posted on 12/31/16 at 11:18 pm to
I'll watch it eventually but not yet. That would probably give me nightmares. A little too close to home work-wise.
Posted by St. Pete Tiger
"Shaqapulco"
Member since Feb 2005
2387 posts
Posted on 1/1/17 at 5:37 am to
Margin Call is highly underrated. It is a close to how real corporate culture works as I have seen.

Also hit up free to choose from Milton Firedmon on YouTube. Older pbs show but best free market overview you will get.

Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
29559 posts
Posted on 1/1/17 at 7:36 am to
Maxed Out

It's about how credit card companies operate and who they target first, the end game for many people and how a handful of people have been fighting thousands owed to a collection agency that was the result of fraud....that the credit card companies don't seem to care about. It's an eye opening film for sure....

Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
145178 posts
Posted on 1/1/17 at 8:30 am to
The flaw
Posted by flvelo12
Palm Harbor, Florida
Member since Jan 2012
3319 posts
Posted on 1/1/17 at 8:31 am to
Inside Job

Will make your blood boil.
Posted by Overbrook
Member since May 2013
6089 posts
Posted on 1/1/17 at 11:20 am to
quote:

Have you watched Margin Call? It feels like it knows its stuff so kind of plays like a docudrama.


Great movie...accurate, but fiction.
Much better than Big Short.
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
29559 posts
Posted on 1/31/17 at 9:35 pm to
Just finished watching Inside Job. Holy frick....


This post was edited on 1/31/17 at 9:39 pm
Posted by McCaigBro69
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Member since Oct 2014
45086 posts
Posted on 1/31/17 at 9:42 pm to
Margin Call is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I also like 'Too Big to Fail' on HBO. Not a documentary, but an HBO film on the whole thing.

Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142047 posts
Posted on 1/31/17 at 9:57 pm to
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson
quote:

Also hit up free to choose from Milton Firedmon on YouTube. Older pbs show but best free market overview you will get.
The liberal version is John Kenneth Galbreath's The Age Of Anxiety, which is worth watching even if you disagree w/his views

And of course there's this classic:

Make Mine Freedom (1948)


Posted by Tigris
Mexican Home
Member since Jul 2005
12358 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 2:32 pm to
Free to Choose - Milton Friedman

It's from 1980 and 10 episodes that are on Youtube.

First Episode
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
11640 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 2:48 pm to
quote:

Margin Call is highly underrated.


This. Great movie.

Like McCaigBro said above, in the same docu-drama category, I also recommend the HBO movie Too Big to Fail, based of the book.
This post was edited on 2/1/17 at 2:50 pm
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51296 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 3:17 pm to
I love Margin Call. Is it streaming anywhere?
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
11640 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 7:41 pm to
Not on Netflix or the streaming Amazon video.
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
23883 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 7:51 pm to
Hank: Five Years From The Brink is on Netflix right now

inside job is a good one too. slim pickings on streaming networks right now. apparently everyone loves to bitch about wall street but doesn't feel the need to educate themselves about it
Posted by 632627
LA
Member since Dec 2011
12767 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 8:39 pm to
quote:

I also like 'Too Big to Fail' on HBO. Not a documentary, but an HBO film on the whole thing.



+1 on too big to fail.

fantastic movie.
Posted by StickD
Houston
Member since Apr 2010
10590 posts
Posted on 2/1/17 at 8:46 pm to
Zeitgeist

If you don't want to hear about how religion may not be how you think it should be, you can fast forward that part. And you may not agree with this film but I'm glad I saw it.
Posted by McCaigBro69
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Member since Oct 2014
45086 posts
Posted on 2/2/17 at 10:59 am to
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