ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Back in 2008, Michael Lewis started paying attention to Wall Street again, as banks and investment funds started to announce massive losses. Fifteen years ago, he published The Big Short, about a group of traders and investors who bet against a market that refused to see what was coming. Now it’s time to revisit both the book and the Oscar-winning movie based on it.
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TRANSCRIPT 🔗
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Speaker 1: Pushkin way back in the spring of two thousand and eight, after many years of ignoring Wall Street, I started paying attention to it again. After all, these big banks began to announce these massive trading losses. These people, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, and Baris Stearns and Merrill Lynch, who were meant to be the smartest in the world at managing financial risk, suddenly looked like complete idiots. And then one day the losses grew so large that the banks began to…
Speaker 1: Pushkin way back in the spring of two thousand and eight, after many years of ignoring Wall Street, I started paying attention to it again. After all, these big banks began to announce these massive trading losses. These people, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, and Baris Stearns and Merrill Lynch, who were meant to be the smartest in the world at managing financial risk, suddenly looked like complete idiots. And then one day the losses grew so large that the banks began to…
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