Listpost | 2023.11.12
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Rogue Trader (1999)Dramatized recount of the Nick Leeson derivatives market blowup. Similar energy to The Big Short but a bit darker. |
The Wall Street Code (2013)Very insightful documentary on YouTube about high-frequency trading and algorithm-based analysis. |
The Hummingbird Project (2018)Drama about building fiber for HFT; a bit cheesy but entertaining. |
Too Big to Fail (2011)Dramatized recount of how the Fed bailed out the Big Banks. |
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (2010)Insightful documentary about quantitative trading. |
Dumb Money (2023)The theatrical Gamestop movie. |
Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga (2022)The Netflix Gamestop docuseries |
Gaming Wall St (2022)The HBO Gamestop docuseries |
2023.01.30
Money and boredomThe Netflix Madoff documentary and revisiting some other national figures. |
2020.09.09
The four horsemenIll portents, investment films, and surf photos. |
2021.06.15
Bro, the humanityHindenburg Research is short DKNG and Redditors discuss short selling. Hilti tools are the ultimate flex. |
soberlook.com
Sober Look: The case for "global quantitative tightening"Guest post by Marcello Minenna In January 2016, global foreign reserves (FX) continued their decline after an absolute peak in June 2014... |
thenakedhedgie.com
Theranos scandal: the REAL story (1/3) | The Naked HedgieThis is a rather lengthy article, so I broke it up in three parts. You can also get the full story in a fairly packed and fast-paced 43-min. video report below. Part 2 is here, and Part 3 here. PART 1: MEDIA NARRATIVE VS. THE REAL STORY https://youtu.be/qk0_Y_FZN2k The epic rise of Theranos and its... |
newyorker.com
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule | The New YorkerRonan Farrow reports on how the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire-and is now struggling to rein him in. |