ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The Big Short is centered around the story of investment advisors who noticed something was seriously wrong with the subprime housing market starting in the early 2000s. Why did the traders at FrontPoint Partners and others bet against the herd, at great risk to their reputations and their own careers? And what happened after those bets paid off — because the market crashed? Michael Lewis catches up with some of the most memorable characters in his book to find out what being right has done to their lives.
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TRANSCRIPT 🔗
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Speaker 2: I'm Lydia Dean Cott and I'm Michael Lewis, and we're continuing our special series about The Big Short. In this episode, we're gonna hear from three guys who worked for Steve Eisman, a fund manager at front Point Partners who bet on the housing market crashing in the late two thousands and was right. In the movie version of The Big Short, Eisman is called Mark Baum, and I want to play you a clip that's narrated by Ryan Gosling in which we're intr…
