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Originally Posted by Justin101  Further to this, have you all seen 'The Big Short' which came out earlier this year, not quite the same thing as Wall Street or it's sequel, but about how a few bankers knew something was about to give and rather than do something about it, made a load of money off the back of it instead. |
I did see it earlier this year and was astonished at how complicated everything was but also the simplicity of the basic premise of what was taking place. I imagine it's something which would mean more if you can 'speak' finance, but the idea of these speculators thinking how great is they are going to become very rich before realising the economy has to collapse in order for this to happen makes it almost tragicomic.
If you haven't seen The Big Short, I also highly recommend it, along with other Oscar-nominated films from the same time such as Spotlight, The Revenant, Brooklyn, The Martian, Room, and Bridge of Spies.