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Dec 10, 2015 · The Big Short is quite a movie: entertaining and engaging, but also mortifying; a good alternate title might be “American Horror Story.”
Adam McKay's The Big Short plays like an elaborate con, albeit one that uses its powers for good. Rated: 3.5/4 • Jun 12, 2016. Headlined by a star-studded cast, this legitimate must-see film tip...
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- What It Means to "Short" Something
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In a very, very small nutshell, the meltdown happened because banks were irresponsibly giving mortgages to people who couldn't afford them (and, in truth, probably shouldn't have taken them on). The banks then bundled all those mortgage IOUs into bonds and other more exotic securities and sold them to big-time investors, including pension and hedge...
Most people, correctly, think of successful investing as buying stocks or bonds when prices are low (because you believe their value will go up) and later selling high. Investors who "short" also hope to buy low and sell high—but they sell first (believing the value will go down) hoping to later buy low. Essentially, a short is a bet that a securit...
We've come this far without much jargon. But these things have names and it'll help to know them. 1. MortgageA loan that the borrower uses to buy real estate. 2. Sub-prime mortgage A risky mortgage loan made to someone with a relatively low credit score and insufficient income to get a conventional mortgage. Sub-prime borrowers are more likely to d...
To win over moviegoers, the Big Short positions its protagonists (played by Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Brad Pitt) as scrappy underdogs engaged in an ethically justified heist-like gambit against the greedy and faceless big banks. But the reality isn't so simple. It's impossible to shake the fact that these guys became fantastic...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson. Headlined by a star-studded cast, this legitimate must-see film tip-toes audaciously between biting satire and...
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Adam McKay. Co-written by Charles Randolph, it is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis showing how the 2007–2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble. [4]
The Big Short is a flashy, quick-witted, and, yes, entertaining film about the housing and banking collapse. But it might just be a little too entertaining, a little too funny for a film that's so sobering.
Dec 11, 2015 · Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt shine in Adam McKay's financial crisis comedy. Read Brian Formo's Big Short review.
