PickVidsBest Investing & personal finance Videos
The 75 Investing & personal finance videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 11 introductory, 6 intermediate, 58 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Ben Felix, LastWeekTonight, This Week in Startups.
Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile
The full-length Numberphile interview with mathematician and hedge fund founder Jim Simons.
This is Financial Advice
Dan Olson's long Folding Ideas video on the GameStop meme stock phenomenon, its online community and the conspiracy thinking around it.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
Audio of Charlie Munger's 1995 Harvard speech on the psychology of human misjudgment, laying out a framework of cognitive biases and mental models for decision making.
The Simple Path to Wealth | JL Collins | Talks at Google
Author JL Collins discusses his book The Simple Path to Wealth at Google, covering avoiding debt, simple index fund investing, and retirement accounts like 401(k)s and IRAs.
All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
Bill Gurley's talk at the All-In Summit 2023, titled 2,851 Miles after the distance between Washington and San Francisco.
The IOU Machine: How Currency Is Created | Hidden Secrets of Money Ep. 4
Episode 4 of Mike Maloney's Hidden Secrets of Money, explaining how currency is created through a chain of IOUs among the Treasury, banks and the Federal Reserve.
Margin Call (2011) - Senior Partners Emergency Meeting [HD 1080p] (Re-Upload / Audio Fixed)
A clip from the 2011 film Margin Call in which senior partners hold an emergency meeting and decide to sell off toxic assets immediately.
The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation
A 30-minute animated film explaining how money, banking and the Federal Reserve work and arguing that the American economy is heading for collapse.
Renting vs. Buying a Home: The 5% Rule
Ben Felix explains how to compare renting and buying a home by looking at unrecoverable costs, and distills it into the 5% rule of thumb.
Exposing Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret
Coffeezilla gives a comprehensive history of Tether, the stablecoin issued by a company controlled by the owners of Bitfinex.
Ses 1: Introduction and Course Overview
First session of MIT 15.401 Finance Theory I (Fall 2008) taught by Andrew Lo, giving a course overview and introducing core finance concepts.
The Ranks of Global Billionaires: Not All Billionaires Are Made Equal
An Economics Explained video on the different kinds of billionaires, from founders to oligarchs.
The Gambler - Fuck You
A short clip from the film The Gambler in which John Goodman's character gives a monologue about the 'position of fuck you': building enough financial security that you owe nobody anything.
Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291
Jason Calacanis interviews investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups.
How the Fed's "Money Printer" Really Works
Ben Felix explains how central bank money creation and quantitative easing actually work, and what they do and do not imply for asset prices and currency.
Predatory Lending: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on payday loans and predatory lending, covering how they trap borrowers and target the elderly and military.
Milton Friedman - Why Tax Reform Is Impossible
Milton Friedman explains why the US tax code is enormously complex and why meaningful reform is unlikely.
How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One
The Tokyo Llama channel details how the creators found and bought an abandoned akiya minka house in Japan.
William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think
A Big Think talk in which hedge-fund manager William Ackman goes through the basics of finance and investing in under an hour.
Dominic Frisby. A simple guide to land value tax
Comedian Dominic Frisby gives a ten-minute explanation of land value tax.
How Airlines Quietly Became Banks
A Wendover Productions explainer arguing that major airlines make much of their profit from loyalty programs and co-branded credit cards rather than flying.
How an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New Home
A mini-documentary by a Canadian living in Japan explaining how an average family can afford a new detached house in Tokyo.
Black Wednesday (BBC 1997)
A 1997 BBC documentary on Black Wednesday in 1992, when sterling was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty
PolyMatter explains China's housing bubble and why around 50 million homes sit empty.