The Big Short Movie Guide
1. What happened in the financial markets in 2008?
2. What is Michael Burry predicting will happen?
3. What does “shorting the banks” mean?
4. Why are the employees at Goldman Sachs in disbelief of Michael’s investment?
5. How much money did Michael short? .
6. What is a CDO (collateralized debt obligations)?
7. What does Ben Rickert think the new currency will be? .
8. What did Mark and his employees find out during their trip to Florida?
9. Do applicants get rejected from loans?
10. Why does the dancer own 5 houses?
11. Why did Charlie and Jamie need Ben to work with them?
12. Why did Standard and Poor’s feel pressure to give high bond ratings to the banks?
13. What is going on in Las Vegas at the American Securitization Forum?
14. What did Charlie and Jamie do that no one else thought of?
15. If Ben, Charlie and Jamie are correct, then what happens?
16. What is a synthetic CDO?
17. Why is Michael emailing his investors?
18. What are the banks doing with the CDO’s before the price goes down?
19. Where is the market crash affecting next?
20. What is happening to Bear Stearns’ stock?
21. What is the toll the market crash had on human life?
22. What is going to happen with the banks that went bankrupt?
23. How many bankers went to jail for fraud? .
24. people lost their job. people lost their homes in
the financial crisis of 2008