Investing & personal finance Videos Recommended on Hacker News (57)
Investing & personal finance is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 57 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 166 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Investing and money: stocks, valuation, index funds, retirement, personal finance, real estate investing, financial literacy, trading, venture capital, banking basics, taxes.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile: “the full length one is very good. it gives an understanding as to why simons has been so successful.” — an HN commenter, 2019.
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5 mo on HNThe IOU Machine: How Currency Is Created | Hidden Secrets of Money Ep. 4
5 mo on HNThe Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation
5 mo on HNRenting vs. Buying a Home: The 5% Rule
4 mo on HNThe Ranks of Global Billionaires: Not All Billionaires Are Made Equal
3 mo on HNHow the Fed's "Money Printer" Really Works
3 mo on HNDominic Frisby. A simple guide to land value tax
3 mo on HNHow Airlines Quietly Became Banks
3 mo on HNHow an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New Home
3 mo on HNWhy 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty
3 mo on HNRenting vs. Buying a Home: What People Get Wrong
2 mo on HN100%+ short interest in GameStop stock (GME) – fundamental & technical deep value analysis
2 mo on HNDrawing Conclusions: Is renting really a waste of money?
2 mo on HNStrong Towns: Property Tax vs. Land Value "Tax" (LVT)
2 mo on HNRenting vs Buying a Home: How to Decide
2 mo on HNBitcoin Q&A: How Do I Secure My Bitcoin?
1 mo on HNInternational Diversification
1 mo on HNBuy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way
1 mo on HNThe centuries-old debt that's still paying interest
1 mo on HNHow to slow down a stock exchange
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Mentioned in HN threads about investing & personal finance, though never formally recommended:
Jim Goetz and Jan Koum at Startup School SV 2014 · The Gambler (2014) - F*** You Scene (7/10) | Movieclips · My first interview with Sam Bankman-Fried · I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks · Auto Lending: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) · other peoples money danny devito · Roger Ver on MTGOX Bitcoin exchange · Carl Icahn: "I Fired 12 Floors of People" · Matthew Driver “Trust Is A Critical Component” | Perspectives | Channel NewsAsia · CNBC TechCheck+ chats with Tether's CTO and general counsel — 7/21/21 · The 2.7% Rule for Retirement Spending · Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs · Credit Reports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) · Cramer on How Hedge Funds are Scamming the Market · I Became The World’s Richest Man For 7 Minutes · It's A Wonderful Life Bank Run · Martin Shkreli Live Stream · Peter Thiel on being a contrarian