Coming to Theaters next month..."The Big Short"

[Towelboy]

"The Big Short," starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt comes out 12/11 and is about a group that bet against the banks and profited when the housing market crashed. Looks pretty good. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqG3ITMv1Q

[pstall]

Absolutely loved the book. Anything by Lewis is great.

Whoever watches the film i strongly suggest reading Liars Poker after.  The book came out in 90 i believe and lays the foundation for what the big short is. It by accident predicts what happened in the market specific to credit derivative swaps and the great recession. 

[Donald LaFell]

Margin Call used to be on Netflix, great movie

[PhillyB]

hell of a cast, i'll probably check it out

[MadHatter]

On ‎11‎/‎23‎/‎2015‎ ‎7‎:‎05‎:‎35‎, pstall said:

Absolutely loved the book. Anything by Lewis is great.

Whoever watches the film i strongly suggest reading Liars Poker after.  The book came out in 90 i believe and lays the foundation for what the big short is. It by accident predicts what happened in the market specific to credit derivative swaps and the great recession. 

Liars Poker is a great book....and easy read. 

I had to write a position paper on it in my MBA program.  Really entertaining, but also very informative about the underbelly of the bond trading world in the 1980's.

[pstall]

The downside of tranches taken to epic levels.