Hello and welcome to Slate Money Goes To The Movies The Wall Street Episode.

I'm Felix Amon of Axios. I'm here with Anna Shimanski. Hi, Anna. Hello.

We are here with, I have to say, on this entire series of movie reviews or recap sort of

you want to call them, only one person has shown up on a Zoom call wearing a tie.

So Josh Brown, who are you and why are you wearing a tie in a pandemic?

I work in the wealth management industry and my days these days consist of many Zoom meetings

sometimes I wear two different ties during the course of one day. So you run a wealth management

company? Yes, I'm the CEO of a registered investment advisory firm. We're a national firm with

about 1.9 billion in assets under management serving somewhere around 15 or 1600 client households,

pensions, endowments, etc. And so basically what you do is you phone people up and say I've

got a hot stock for you. You should go into this, right? That's your job. No, in a previous life,

that was that was my job. These days most of what we do involves financial planning and really

giving people a sense that the money that they've earned throughout the course of their lives

can be employed in the way that they want it to be and showing them the satisfaction they can get

from having investments tied to actual goals and objectives. So we work with people on everything

from portfolios to insurance to medical issues, the whole gamut of things that people are concerned about.

But my big question is, is any of those goals and objectives ever like I want to

rip apart a paper company or an airline? Not yet. I'm still waiting for that client come through my

door who wants to do a little financial planning and a little corporate rate. We haven't come across

that yet. It hasn't happened yet. So anyway, we are going to talk about the greatest corporate

rateer in the history of the movies. Oh yeah. Mr. Gordon Gecko himself as indelibly portrayed by

Michael Douglas. We're going to talk about how realistic it is, whether it was even illegal,

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