"The Big Short"

Poor old DonDiego was perusing some of his usual financial sites early this morning and he came across a link to "The Big Short", the Oscar-nominated film explaining the sub-prime mortgage debacle of the last decade.

Not one to look a gift-horse in the mouth, DonDiego watched it. It is outstanding, . . . very informative and totally entertaining. DonDiego heartily recommends that anyone interested in who caused the collapse, . . . and how, . . . should see this movie.*

A theater would likely provide a better experience and reward the producers, or one can watch it at putlocker.is as DonDiego just did.
n.b. The ".is" is the top-level domain for Iceland, so perhaps Icelandic hackers have captured poor old DonDiego's computer contents. DonDiego supposes little harm can come of it, but he points it out to those who may fear Icelanders, . . . in the unlikely event anyone does.

*HINT: It was the Big Banks and the Big Government, . . . and it was due to greed and incompetence.

Everything I know about history comes from watching Hollywood movies.

I think I can sum up the plot. The moral of the story is we should remove regulations for the banks and let the "free market" sort out all of their bad behavior.

I seriously doubt that. If it's anything like the book, the motto is, "The business model of Wall Street is fraud." You know, what Bernie said.

I think Hillary was just barking about that.

Whats with all the flash update popups on that site?

DonDiego saw none; his ad-blocker must be working.

Actually, quite the opposite.

The film documented several individuals who through their own diligence discovered the fragility of the US real-estate market, and the derivatives derived therefrom, . . . and became multi-millionaires when it all collapsed.

The fragility was caused by greedy bankers and real estate dealers violating the regulations that were already in place and committing ever-growing fraud. And about Government employees empowered to enforce the Laws against such fraud who did not do their jobs, whether through ignorance, indifference, or collusion.

And, except for losing their money, bankrupting their firms, breaking the housing market, and destroying millions of lives, . . . no one was ever punished.
The little guys lost; and the big guys got away with it. [DonDiego said above the movie was "very informative and totally entertaining". He did not say it had a happy ending.]

The moral of the story is appropriate regulations, . . . to "regulate" the markets, not control them, . . . should be formulated. And competent Government employees should enforce them.

Good Luck with that !

As I do every year, I see all of the "Best Picture" nominees. Big Short is 2B. Room is 2A. The Revenant is 1. I would have put Ex Machina and Inside Out on the list in place of Spotlight and Mad Max

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