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Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2016)

The Big Short
The best part of homeownership in the early-2000s was if your house ever burnt down, you still had two left over.
While no one saw this as a problem, the suits in this dramedy didand made millions.
When rogue hedge fund manager Michael Burry (Christian Bale) uncovers what will eventually become the housing bubble, he predicts its eventual collapse and, despite ridicule from every bank he meets with, he bets against it.
His credit default swap scheme ends up intriguing a trader (Ryan Gosling), an investor (Finn Wittrock), another hedge fund manager (Steve Carell) and an ex-banker (Brad Pitt), all of who want in.
Clarifying the complexities of the financial crisis and defining the convoluted terminology involved with elucidatory side vignettes, this layperson adaptation of the non-fiction novel is frightening, facetious, and keenly insightful.
Incidentally, with all those subsequent foreclosures, smart traders would've invested in cans of squatter spray.
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