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0 pointsseanhunter2y ago0 comments

The book is not accurate and in particular most of the traders fought the decision to put the short on and then took credit for it afterwards. I really don’t want to say anything further.

Source: I was there (working as a strat for Goldman in mortgages during the crisis).

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dragontamer2y ago

The movie was outright wrong in some other details that seemed to contradict congressional testimony / public knowledge of 2008 as well.

Movie was a movie. It bothers me that the attention span of Americans is so short that they can't be bothered to look up the known and public facts of 2008 before making opinions on it.

ionwake2y ago

Thanks for the comment I always suspect things like this occur often

YeBanKo2y ago

Snob comment claiming an inside knowledge and yet refusing to provide any pointers or logical conclusion chains.

seanhunterOP2y ago

Yeah a valid criticism and I apologise. All I would say is read the book/see the movie and enjoy it as a fun experience but don't necessarily take it as historical fact and in particular I wouldn't put any money behind anything just because Michael Burry has done it (as in TFA).

kingkongjaffa2y ago

Who fought to put it on then?

seanhunterOP2y ago

The people concerned haven't fought to put themselves in the spotlight so I'm assuming they would prefer to remain in the background. On that basis I'm not going to out them.

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0 pointsseanhunter2y ago0 comments

The book is not accurate and in particular most of the traders fought the decision to put the short on and then took credit for it afterwards. I really don’t want to say anything further.

Source: I was there (working as a strat for Goldman in mortgages during the crisis).

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dragontamer2y ago

The movie was outright wrong in some other details that seemed to contradict congressional testimony / public knowledge of 2008 as well.

Movie was a movie. It bothers me that the attention span of Americans is so short that they can't be bothered to look up the known and public facts of 2008 before making opinions on it.

ionwake2y ago

Thanks for the comment I always suspect things like this occur often

YeBanKo2y ago

Snob comment claiming an inside knowledge and yet refusing to provide any pointers or logical conclusion chains.

seanhunterOP2y ago

kingkongjaffa2y ago

Who fought to put it on then?

seanhunterOP2y ago

The people concerned haven't fought to put themselves in the spotlight so I'm assuming they would prefer to remain in the background. On that basis I'm not going to out them.

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