A Movie Review. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. This movie did keep my attention. Perhaps because the first half of the movie is a replay of the Bear Stearns collapse. The company that collapses is “Bear Stearns.” The couple references about how “Bear Sterns” refused to help out another firm in the past was a reference to Long-Term Capital Management. The NY Fed meetings occurred (Geithner was the NY Fed chair, FYI.) The movie also has some of the individuals who foresaw the crisis in cameo roles: Roubini and Chanos. But for all the fun in watching a fictional history on the screen, I have to say I hated the ended. Spoiler. Seriously, reconciliation with someone who heisted $100m from you? I don’t even care if it was emphasized in the movie that Winnie Gekko wasn’t into money. That is a rather big theft.