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$AVGO 

Broadcom

100

The stock market crash of 1929 led to this global economic crsis

The Great Depression

100

The Oracle of Omaha

Warren Buffett

100

This slang term refers to stocks that surge due to internet hype

Meme Stocks

100

Leonardo DiCaprio plays a notorious Stock swindler in this 2013 Martin Scorsese Film

Wolf Of Wall Street

200

$LUV

Southwest Airlines

200

The financial crisis of 2008 was sparked largely by problems in this market.. 

Housing/Mortgage Market

200

Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard, pioneered this type of fund

Index fund

200

The term for a rapid, major drop in stock prices 

Market Crash

200

This 1987 Oliver Stone film, Gordon Gekko famously declares, "Greed is good".

Wall Street 

300

$CMG & $MCD

Chipotle Mexican Grill & McDonalds 

300

The Dot-com Bubble burst in this year, sending many internet companies into bankruptcy 

2000

300

This investor was known as Warren Buffett's business partner and the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway,

Charlie Munger

300

A "poison pill" is a defense strategy used by companies to prevent this kind of unwanted corporate action.. 

Hostile Takeover 

300

This 2015 film used comedy and celebrity cameos to explain mortgage-backed securities and the housing collapse

The Big Short

400

$SCHD & $SCHG

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF & Schwab US Large-Cap Growth ETF

400

The collapse of this investment bank in September 2008 marked a turning point in the global financial crisis.. 

Lehman Brothers

400

Known for his contrarian strategies, this investor authored "The Intelligent Investor", often called the Bible of value investing. 

Benjamin Graham

400

A technique where an investor simultaneously owned and sold short (borrowed and sold) the same securities, using the owned shares to cover the short position later, primarily to defer capital gains taxes until the following year.

"Shorting against the box"

400

This 1983 comedy with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd flips the lives of a wall street broker and a street hustler as part of a bet..

Trading places 

500

The Ticker $MMM represents this industrial conglomerate, also known has "3M" 

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing 

500

"Black Monday" was the largest one-day percentage drop in U.S. Stock market history, occurred in this year.

1987

500

This investor started a major financial services firm in 1971 and pioneered the discount brokerage model. He is the author of several books, the founder of a foundation to support education and human services, and has served on various boards, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Charles Schwab

500

This slang term refers to a company or fund that collapses spectacularly--named after a type of airship disaster..

Hindenburg

500

This 2000 film starring Giovanni Ribisi and Vin Diesel shows the shady world of a "Chop shop" brokerage film selling worthless stocks.

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