Wall Street Pro Reacts to The Movie Too Big To Fail Movie

Book a call with our team here so we can help you to learn how to invest, change careers, build your side hustle, or get a finance job (investment banking, hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and more): https://cal.com/chrisharoun/meeting-w... In this video a former Goldman Sachs employee who worked at the top hedge funds reacts to the movie Too Big To Fail, including the accuracy and lessons that investors must pay attention to. Key topics discussed are the 2008 financial crisis, Lehman Brothers' collapse, media bias in stock advice, Bear Stearns' failure, moral hazard, short selling strategies, and systemic risk—and much more. The video Wall Street Pro Reacts to The Movie Too Big To Fail Movie contains closed captions. _____________________________ Get More Great Finance/Investing Tips - Subscribe → https://www.youtube.com/ChrisHarounVe... My Reaction Video to the Movie Margin Call →    • Wall Street Pro Reacts to Movie Margin Call   My Reaction Video to the Movie The Big Short →    • Wall Street Pro Reacts to The Big Short Movie   My Reaction Video to the Movie The Wolf of Wall Street →    • Wall Street Pro Reacts to The Wolf of Wall...   My Reaction Video to the Movie Wall Street →    • Wall Street Pro Reacts to Wall Street Movie   My Reaction Videos to Many Episodes of Billions: →    • Wall Street Pro Reacts to Billions TV Show...   _________________________________ Here are the Clickable Chapters for the video: 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Lesson 1/22: Never Listen to the Media (when picking stocks) 01:58 Short selling explained 02:31 Lesson 2/22: Never Use Leverage 02:40 Lesson 3/22: Only Invest in Liquid Stocks 03:34 Lesson 4/22: Be Unemotional When Investing 04:09 Lesson 5/22: Like Buffett, Be Greedy When Others Are Fearful (and vice versa) 04:21 Lesson 6/22: Day Trading Does Not Work 05:11 Lesson 7/22: Buy When the Vix Spikes (& when consumer confidence tanks) 06:02 Why was congress furious with the 2008 bailout plan? 06:36 Will Warren Buffett save Lehman? 06:55 Lesson 8/22: Be Patient & Remember You Can Always Buy That Stock Cheaper! 07:16 John Stewart Versus Jim Cramer 07:41 Lesson 9/22: NEVER Be Short-Term Focussed 08:10 The banks blamed us retail investors for the 08 crash! 08:33 Lesson 10/22: Buy Preferred and Not Common Shares 09:18 Lesson 11/22: BE CAREFUL When You See High Dividend Yields! 09:55 The BRILLIANCE of Warren Buffett 10:19 Lesson 12/22: Don't "rent" stocks...be an owner! 10:29 Warren Buffett teaching my class at Columbia 10:59 Lesson 13/22: Ask yourself this before investing... 11:20 How to do research on stocks 12:27 Fiscal and Monetary Policy explained 13:42 Lesson 14/22: Cash is Trash 13:54 Why I own gold 14:21 Lesson 15/22: Invest When Supply is Decreasing 14:33 Lesson 16/22: Risk Management 14:46 Fiscal policy explained in more detail 15:42 Run on the banks explained 16:34 Fuld insulting Korean investors 16:52 Lesson 17/22: Always Bond Before Business 17:49 Fannie May and Freddie Mac explained 18:43 Merrill Lynch going bankrupt? 19:03 The Perfect Storm given the Beijing Olympics in 2008 20:12 Can Russia and China sell bonds and stocks to hurt the US? 20:30 Japan and China driving up interest rates in 2025? 21:45 Government rescue of Fannie and Freddie 22:55 AIG disaster explained 23:01 Hank Paulson meeting with heads of investment banks 24:16 Jamie Dimon's brilliant rescue plan 24:50 Why the Barclays for Lehman deal fell apart 25:15 Government lets Lehman go under 26:00 Goldman and Morgan Stanley going under? 26:18 Frozen credit markets explained 28:32 Lesson 18/22: Derivatives Are Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction 29:01 Countries going bankrupt in 08? 29:59 GE going bankrupt? 30:59 White House Press Secretary preparing to brief the public 31:19 CDOs and CDFs explained 32:04 Trilogy: Big Short, Margin Call & Too Big To Fail 33:17 What happens if AIG goes under? 33:36 Ben Bernanke's PHD in Depressionary Economics at Princeton 34:11 Election year meant Democrats and Republicans fight the bailout 34:20 Cost of the 08 bailout 34:45 TARP explained 35:07 Bernanke convincing congress to the bailout (using fear) 35:54 Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack's response to selling his company 36:19 Lesson 19/22 Your Network is Your Net Worth 37:25 The rescue of Morgan Stanley 37:35 Warren Buffet's rescue of Goldman Sachs 37:43 Lesson 20/22: Learn to Say No More Often 37:54 Lesson 21/22: Master Public Speaking 38:30 Lesson 22/22: Write/Communicate at a 10th Grade Level 38:49 Buffet rescues Goldman 39:11 Nancy Pelosi rescues Hank Paulson 40:09 Will the investment banks accept the bailout? 40:48 How much TARP money did each bank accept? 41:03 Why it's NOT FAIR that the banks were bailed out 42:27 The government BANNED shorting! 43:20 Did the banks repay TARP? 43:48 Movie bottom line rating (Buy, Hold or Sell Rating?) 45:15 My next reaction video