Best Financial Books and Movies for College Students
- Yeiz The
- Jul 21, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 1, 2021
During the year, you are probably busy with all your assignments and exams, but summer or winter break is the perfect time for you to improve and expand your knowledge. And, with the coronavirus pandemic impacting our normal routines and budget, it is important to learn something new about money and finance. If you don’t know where to start, here are the four books and movies you can add to your list to learn about personal finance and the financial world.
Benjamin Graham, the author of The Intelligent Investor, is one of the greatest investment advisors of the twentieth century. He is best known as the father of value investing and The Intelligent Investor is considered the stock market bible ever since its first publication in 1949. Reading the book, you will learn about the must-read basics in investing and how to develop a long-term investing strategy by analyzing stocks and using dollar-cost averaging. The book has proven the wisdom of Graham’s philosophy over many years and Warren Buffett also called this book “By far the best book on investing ever written”. Therefore, it is the most important book college students should read on how to investing.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is about Robert T. Kiyosaki’s story of growing up with two fathers: one is his real father who is a high school drop-out, and one is his best friend’s father who has a collection of degrees and diplomas. By telling the story in a funny but insightful and informative way, Kiyosaki shows us how to view money from different perspectives. The book highlights the contrast between the ways the two fathers think and act about money and investing and throughout the comparison, the book explores how to manage your money effectively and how the money habits of the wealthy differ from everyone else. If you want to invest and reach your financial goals early, you should not miss this book.
The Big Short
It is a story about the U.S. housing bubble event that happened in the mid-2000s. The movie follows a story of a small number of investors and hedge fund managers who made fortunes when they saw the housing market declined and took full advantage of it. The movie is told in an entertaining and engaging way and it also touches on different aspects of how a small event in the financial world could make the economy collapses. In the movie, you will learn a variety of technical terms from the economic world. By learning these technical terms while watching the movie, you will learn a lot about finance without even realizing it.
The Inside Job
It is a stunning and well-argued documentary movie about how the financial crash of 2008 happened. The movie is aided by fascinating interviews from a broad range of participants in the financial sector including hedge fund managers, Justice Department officials, Federal Reserve chairmen and so on. The movie provides a detailed examination of the elements that led to the financial collapse and it also exposes the corruption of the U.S banking that resulted in millions of people around the world losing jobs and homes.
It is important for everyone to understand how everything works tightly together the financial world, especially for college students, who are fighting with bills, tuition fees, and are about to join the real world. After you check off some of these books and movies, let’s take what you learned and start making some own financial decisions.
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