Really looking forward to seeing this movie. A very interesting book about the very small number of investment folks who figured out the mortgage bonds/insurance fiasco of 2008 was a house of cards that would collapse and how they shorted the market to make literally hundreds of millions of dollars. The movie has gotten stellar reviews thus far.
What was most interesting about the book was I read it shortly after I'd read 'When Genius Failed' about Long Term Capital Management's implosion in 1998 due to overleverage and how it's collapse almost caused a worldwide collapse, also. Incredible that supposedly knowledgeable people in the high finance field would repeat the same mistakes only 10 years later. Greed is NOT good when mixed with stupidity, evidently.
Anyone else looking forward to seeing this movie? Has Steve Carrell, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, etc.
What was most interesting about the book was I read it shortly after I'd read 'When Genius Failed' about Long Term Capital Management's implosion in 1998 due to overleverage and how it's collapse almost caused a worldwide collapse, also. Incredible that supposedly knowledgeable people in the high finance field would repeat the same mistakes only 10 years later. Greed is NOT good when mixed with stupidity, evidently.
Anyone else looking forward to seeing this movie? Has Steve Carrell, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, etc.
