Morgan Stanley's 'Hunger Games' parody whips financial Twitter into a frenzy

Morgan Stanley's 'Hunger Games' parody whips financial Twitter into a frenzy
Twitter reacts to Morgan Stanley's 'Margin Games' Hunger Games parody.
MAR 06, 2015
Morgan Stanley's parody of the “Hunger Games” film series, obtained exclusively by InvestmentNews, generated a ton of buzz across the financial world. Twitter was the source of some of the best reactions to the 10-minute attempt at humor from the wirehouse giant. We've pulled together a collection of our favorite tweets trying to comprehend the "Margin Games: Manager on Fire" parody, presented below:

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