"Wall Street Money Never Sleeps"

I saw “Wall Street Money Never Sleeps” with Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella and Josh Brolin. Depressing. If you do go see it pay special attention to 2 scenes-

1 Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas’ character) speaks before a group of college students. He warns about investing getting out of control. This is one of the few scenes in which financial matters are spoken about in plain English. I talk a lot about investing with moderation in my classes and my upcoming book.

2 Gordon Gekko tells his daughter’s fiancé, Jake (Shia LaBeouf’s character) of the Dutch Tulip bubble in the 1600’s. Investors, or better speculators wildly bet on the price of the tulips going up only to find the price came crashing down. Many people sold their land and other major assets to purchase the tulips and lost everything. I show how to avoid such situations in my classes and my upcoming book.

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“Wall Street Money Never Sleeps” also shows people in the financial know getting caught up in the transactions and manipulating others. Their eye pupils get wide and you can almost see the Adrenaline rush to their hearts, just thinking about all the money they will make. In my experience precious few of those people teach others how to make money. I started this website to share what I have taught myself and been taught. No, I am not a Wall Street Market Maker but I have already helped a lot of people get into the swing of things.

Entrepreneurship/Early Stage Companies
I have known some people who teach entrepreneurs how to make their businesses more profitable. In the 1990’s I organized financial seminars for entrepreneurs and investors in downtown Chicago. Tim Krauskopf, Art Roldan, Jeff Coney, Scott Woodard, Tom Parkinson, Marc Achler, Pat McGivney, Wally Cornett, Jerry Mitchell, Ellen Carnahan, Dan Howell, J.B. Pritzker, the late, Don Frey immediately come to mind.

J.B. founded the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center www.chicagolandec.org.

The MIT Enterprise Forum
http://www.mitefchicago.org/
The MIT Enterprise Forum is also in South Florida, Pittsburgh, D.C., San Diego and others.

The Illinois Technology Association. For similar organizations in your area just Google “City or State Name Technology Association”I served on its predecessor’s (Chicago Software Association) Entrepreneur’s Business Plan Advisory Board.