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Margin Call is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor in his feature directorial debut. The principal story takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank during the initial stages of the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph.The film is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, and shows how the 2007–2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble. [4]
The film chronicles the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank and the subsequent ripple effects on the global economy. As the firm's negotiations with potential buyers fail due to toxic assets and regulatory obstacles, the firm declares bankruptcy, triggering market chaos.
The 2008 financial crisis didn’t happen overnight. Rather, it was the culmination of a series of factors. The details of what led to the financial crisis are detailed in the 2010 book “The Big ...
Michael Burry, played by Christian Bale in the movie ‘The Big Short’, is putting his money on another financial disaster Trader who predicted 2008 financial crisis bets $1.6bn on stock market ...
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2007–2008 financial crisis.Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, [3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption", [4] amongst them conflicts of interest of academic research, which led to ...
This month brings the release of another Hollywood movie taking up the well-worn, populist stereotype of “Wall Street guys” put in their place by ordinary people who don’t seem to have as ...
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. [1]