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Topic | Watched The Big Short yesterday. Entertaining movie but |
PraetorXyn 07/22/23 9:36:28 PM #5: | littlebro07 posted... How the fuck does any of this stuff workThe movie explained it as a short is like a reverse stock basically. Where if the stock value you goes up, you lose money, and if it drops, you gain money. Youre essentially betting on something (in this case the housing market) to fail. The big banks gleefully accepted what they saw as losing nets, then when they figured out they were about to lose badly, they bribed the rating agency to rate shit mortgage bundles AAA so they could offload them to other banks. --- Console war in a nutshell: http://imgur.com/xA6GJZ9.png ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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