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the Big Short

JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Best movie I've seen this year. I think every person who visits this board reguraly would be into this. Extremely well done with a little levity. Awesome



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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I will put it on the list.... thanks...

    Cheers, RickO
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    The book by Michael Lewis is a must read!
    I can't wait to see the movie.
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
    can't wait to read cohodk's review.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just got back from seeing it.



    The baffling thing to me then and since is this mantra that people "didn't see it coming." I remember well how many people here in those years on these Boards were talking all about the crazy real estate bubble, the subprime mortgages, the adjustable rates, etc. etc. (Maybe some of you can exhume some of those old threads). It all seemed so obvious that we were headed toward a disaster.



    It seems to me that there were three groups then: people who saw the obvious and were worried/fascinated as the precipice approached, people who saw the obvious, didn't care and made the big bux while the opportunity was there, and people who were busy with their daily lives and found the whole apparatus incomprehensible when they did fleetingly take a look at it (an incomprehensibility that was not altogether inadvertent).



    What remains distressing is that no one responsible was held accountable, that the abuse has since accelerated, and that regulations and regulators have perhaps lost even more teeth.




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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭
    good movie...

    "bespoke tranche opportunity"....

    keep on stackin......

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  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,087 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: derryb
    can't wait to read cohodk's review.



    Although cohodk is a fan of sci-fi, he probably won't watch the movie.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dpoole....I like your second option... I believe that was the larger group...



    people who saw the obvious, didn't care and made the big bux while the opportunity was there,




    Cheers, RickO
  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I liked the book better, gave the movie a B+. Not quite a documentary and not quite a drama. The movie did improve after the first half hour.

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: cohodk
    Originally posted by: derryb
    can't wait to read cohodk's review.



    Although cohodk is a fan of sci-fi, he probably won't watch the movie.


    Wouldn't want you to lose touch with reality. image

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭
    While all the facts aren't completely accurate the movie was well done and very entertaining.
    Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



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