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Calculated Shard: 149 (from laksa047)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa149.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Short_(film)","crawl_time":1776298449,"first_indexed_time":1456798606,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,wikiquote!en,\/wiki\/The_Big_Short_(film) s443","src_root_hash":"15648071994150960749","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Big Short (film) - Wikiquote","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"The Big Short\nis a\n2015 film\nabout four denizens of the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble\ncollapse of the mid-2000s\n, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.\nDirected by\nAdam McKay\n. Written by\nAdam McKay\nand\nCharles Randolph\n, based on\nthe book\nby\nMichael Lewis\n.\nThis is a true story.\nI\nam\nhappy when I'm unhappy.\n[\n1\n]\nAnd I'm getting madder and madder, and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So, am I the fucked up one, or is he?\n[On the phone]\nLet me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman.\nSo, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit?\nThe banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right!\n[Regarding Vennett]\nI can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No.\nIt's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks?\nWe live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.\nI'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table.\nHoly shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me.\nWe're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed.\nThey knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care.\nI have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.\n[Last line of the movie]\nOkay...sell it all.\nThat's a nice haircut, did you do it yourself?\nLawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic.\nI may have been early, but I'm not wrong.\n[Final letter to his investors]\nI met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, \"I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and $145,000 in student loans.\" She wrote back, \"You're just what I've been looking for.\" She meant \"honest\", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, \"familiar.\"  So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D.\nThe NSA has a $52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it?\nDo you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy.\nIf we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?\nJust...don't fucking dance.\nI'm trying to sell $200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep.\nIf you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought.\nThe largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering.\nYou guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich.\n[Opening monologue]\nIn the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until\nLewis Ranieri\ncame on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea.\nThe money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing $50, $100, $200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb but come on. But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked.\nLet me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it.\nIs this America's angriest hedge fund?\nNow their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised?\nTell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested.\n[Watching Mark talk with Wing Chau]\nLook at his face, he looks like the bad guy from\nDune\n.\n\"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.\"\nI'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE\nTITS!\n[Looking at his bonus check of $47 million]\nSo, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story.\nMargot Robbie\n:\n[In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne]\nBasically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages.\n[Butler pours more champagne into her glass]\n(Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called \"subprime.\" So, whenever you hear the word \"subprime,\" think \"shit.\" Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA,  were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to \"short\" the bonds, which means \"to bet against.\" Got it? Good...\n[Takes a sip of champagne]\nNow, fuck off.\nLawrence Fields\n: Get me my fucking money back, you motherfucker.\nCynthia Baum\n: The therapist called. You did it again!\nCynthia Baum\n: You're not a saint. Saints don't live on Park Avenue.\nCharlie Geller\n: Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again!\nPub patron\n:\n[To Ben]\nAre you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off!\nJamie Shipley\n: This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street!\nRabbi\n: Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud.\nMrs. Baum\n: Then what's the problem, Rabbi?\nRabbi\n: It's the\nreason\nMark is studying so hard: he's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God!\nMrs. Baum\n: ...So has he found any?\nDanny Moses\n: You're completely sure of the math?\nJared Vennett\n: Look at him, that's my quant.\nMark Baum\n: Your what?\nJared Vennett\n: My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.\nMark Baum\n: That's pretty racist.\nJared Vennett\n: Look at his eyes. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China; he doesn't even speak English! Yeah, I'm sure of the math.\nJiang\n:\n[To the camera]\nActually, my name's \"Jiang\", and I do speak English. Jared likes to say I don't, because he thinks it makes me seem more \"authentic.\" And... I placed 2nd in that national math competition.\nJared Vennett\n:\n[pulling blocks from a Jenga tower]\nAs, zero. Bs, zero. Double Bs, zero. Triple Bs, zero...\n[the tower topples]\nAnd then that happens.\nMark Baum\n: What is that?\nJared Vennett\n: That's America's housing market.\n[Baum's team stares in utter shock]\nJared Vennett\n: Thank you.\nChris\n: Fuckin' A, Jared.\nJared Vennett\n: Shut your fuckin' mouth.\nMark Baum\n: I don't get it. Why are they confessing?\nDanny Moses\n: They're not confessing.\nPorter Collins\n: They're bragging.\nMark Baum\n: It's time to call bullshit.\nVinnie Daniel\n: Bullshit on what?\nMark Baum\n: Every-fucking-thing.\nJared Vennett\n: [\nover the phone\n] Is this America's angriest hedge fund?\nVinnie Daniel\n: All right, listen. I got one last question for you: How are you fucking us?\nJared Vennett\n: There's a nicer way to say that, Vinnie.\nVinnie Daniel\n: I'm serious. We'll buy your swaps, but only if you say how you're fucking us.\nJared Vennett\n: I'm not fucking you, Vinnie. I'm kissing you. I'm looking deep into your eyes as I make sweet love to you, Vinnie. I'm handing you the deal of the century on a fucking platter. What do I get out of it? Easy. I got a $20-million-a-month negative carry. I got bosses trying to pull the plug because they think I'm out of my fucking mind, alright? We make this trade, those problems aren't so big anymore. And sure, swaps are a dark market, so I set the price.Whatever price I want. And when you come for the payday, I'm gonna rip your eyes out, I'm gonna make a fortune. But the good news is, Vinnie, you're not gonna care because you're gonna make\nso\nmuch fucking money. That's what I get out of it. Want to know what you get out of it? You get the ice cream, the hot fudge, the bananas, and the nuts. Right now, I get the sprinkles, and, yeah, if this goes through, I get the cherry. But\nyou\nget the sundae, Vinnie! You get the sundae!\nVinnie Daniel\n: Alright, I buy that. Thank you.\nJared Vennett\n:  You want me to make you a market?\nVinnie Daniel\n: Yeah. We'll take $50 million Garibaldi IV BBB.\nJared Vennett\n: Sharpen your pencils. I'll get the paperwork ready.\nVinnie Daniel\n: [\nsighs after hanging up the phone\n] Fuck you too.\n[\nMark is talking to CDO manager Wing Chau in a Vegas restaurant; Vennett & Mark's team watch from a nearby table\n]\nJared Vennett\n: Uh oh, your boss is about to explode.\nVinnie Daniel\n: No, he's too curious to explode.\nMark Baum\n: Hold on, hold on, say that again. CDO A has parts of CDO B and CDO B has parts CDO A, but then both get put inside CDO C?\nWing Chau\n: Yep, and that one's called a CDO Squared - a CDO of a CDO.  And then there are CDOs made up of the opposite side of the bet you made with  swaps. We call them synthetic CDOs.\nMark Baum\n: What did you just say? \"Synthetic CDOs?\" That is fucking crazy.\nWing Chau\n: It's not, it's awesome!\nJared Vennett\n: Look at his face; he looks like the bad guy from\nDune\n.\nMark Baum\n: Alright, let's say you have...50 million in subprime loans. How much money could be out there betting on it through these synthetic CDOs and swaps? Right now, tonight?:\nWing Chau\n: 50 million? A billion dollars.\nMark Baum\n:\nWhat??\nJared Vennett\n: [\nvoiceover\n] If the mortgage bonds that Michael Burry discovered were the match...\nMark Baum\n: How much bigger is the market for insuring mortgage bonds than actual mortgages?\nWing Chau\n: About twenty times.\nJared Vennett\n: [\nvoiceover\n] If the mortgage bonds were the match, and the CDOs were the kerosene-soaked rags, then the synthetic CDO was the atomic bomb with a drunk president holding his finger over the button. It was at that moment, in that dumb restaurant with that stupid look on his face, that Mark Baum realized the whole world economy might collapse.\nMark Baum\n:\n[After his conversation with Wing Chau]\nShort everything that man has touched. I want another half-billion in swaps by the end of the day.\nJared Vennett\n: Are you sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you.\nMark Baum\n: Yeah.\nPorter Collins\n: Where are you going?\nMark Baum\n: I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table.\nMark Baum\n:\n[on the phone]\nOk, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off.\nVinnie Daniel\n:\n[Walks into the room]\nGentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum...he says to 'fuck off'.\nMark Baum\n:\n[Gets a call from Vennett]\nJared? It's chaos down here, where're we?\nJared Vennett\n:\n[Walks into the employee bathroom]\n\"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.\"\n[Sees a co-worker next to him]\nShane? SHANE??\n[Shane leaves]\nWell, nobody's buying CDO's or mortgage bonds anymore, and everybody wants swaps. Swaps are now the most popular product on the street.\nMark Baum\n: That's good for us.\nJared Vennett\n: Yes and no. I heard from somebody who heard from somebody—\n[Another employee walks in]\nNo, Alex, no. Sorry.\n[Alex turns around and leaves]\nBenny Kleager over at Morgan's taking on some heavy losses in the bond department. Your ship might be taking on water; might be time to get our lifejacket and get out. Oh, I'm jacked. I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE\nTITS!\nMark Baum\n: ...Good.\nJared Vennett\n: Do you feel it?\nMark Baum\n: No.\n[Hangs up]\nBruce Miller\n: As some of you may know, Bear Stearns has just received a loan from JP Morgan. Of course, we're gonna have to wait and see how the markets react, but that should lay to rest any concerns about the bank's health.\nDebate host\n: Now, I take it you have no plans to sell your $200 million in Bear stock?\nBruce Miller\n: No, as a matter of fact, when we're done here, I'll probably go out and buy some more.\n[Crowd lightly chuckles]\nDebate host\n: For the opposing view, Mr. Baum.\nMark Baum\n: I got to stand for this.\n[Takes the microphone and stands]\nOkay, hi. My firm's thesis is pretty simple. Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity that's on its way to decimating the world economy.\nBruce Miller\n: How do you\nreally\nfeel?\n[Crowd laughs]\nMark Baum\n: I'm glad you still have a sense of humor; I wouldn't if I were you. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem telling someone they're wrong...\nDanny Moses\n:\n[In the crowd, looking at Bear Stearns' stock price live on his Blackberry, showing Vinny and Porter; they speak in hushed whispers]\n(Bear Stearns is denying rumors of liquidity problems...Holy fuck, it's 39 now!)\nMark Baum\n: ...is not so enjoyable. We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball. What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice or that fraud is mean. It's that, for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once.\nDanny Moses\n: (Jesus, Bear at 37. Bear's at 37.)\nMark Baum\n: Eventually, people get caught, things go south.\nVinny Daniel\n: (Plummeting.)\nDanny Moses\n: (It's fucking plummeting, man.)\nMark Baum\n: When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we're not doesn't make me feel alright and superior. It makes me feel...sad.\nDanny Moses\n: (Every time I fucking hit \"refresh\", it's dropping, man. Every time.)\nMark Baum\n: And as much fun as it is to watch pompous, dumb Wall Streeters be wildly wrong,\n[To Miller]\nand you are wrong, sir, I just know, that at the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones that are going to have to pay for all this. Because they always, always do.\nPorter Collins\n: (It's 32. 32.)\nDanny Moses\n: (It's fucking tanked, man.)\nMark Baum\n: That's my two cents, thank you.\n[Sits down]\nPorter Collins\n: (Let me drop a deuce on Deutsche).\nDebate host\n: Does our bull have a response?\nBruce Miller\n: Only that, in the entire history of Wall Street, no investment bank has ever failed unless caught in criminal activities. So, yes, I stand by my Bear Stearns optimism.\nMan in crowd\n: Mr. Miller, I'm sorry, quick question. From the time you guys started talking, Bear Stearns stock has fallen more than 38%.\n[People in the crowd start murmuring in surprise]\nWould you still buy more?\nBruce Miller\n:\n[Trying to be optimistic]\nY-yeah, sure...of course I'd buy more. Why not?\nMark Baum\n:\nBOOM\n.\nCharlie Geller\n:\n[As he and Jamie look around in the abandoned trading floor of Lehman Brothers after its collapse]\nThis isn't how I pictured it.\nJamie Shipley\n: What'd you think we'd find?\nCharlie Geller\n: I don't know...Grownups.\nChristian Bale\n-\nDr. Michael Burry\nSteve Carell\n- Mark Baum\nRyan Gosling\n- Jared Vennett\nBrad Pitt\n- Ben Rickert\nJohn Magaro\n- Charlie Geller\nFinn Wittrock\n- Jamie Shipley\nHamish Linklater\n- Porter Collins\nRafe Spall\n- Danny Moses\nJeremy Strong\n- Vinny Daniel\nAdepero Oduye\n- Kathy Tao\nMarisa Tomei\n- Cynthia Baum\nMelissa Leo\n- Georgia Hale\nStanley Wong - Ted Jiang\nJeffry Griffin - Chris\nByron Mann\n- Mr. Chau\nTracy Letts\n- Lawrence Fields\nKaren Gillan\n- Evie\nMax Greenfield\n- Mortgage Broker\nBilly Magnussen\n- Mortgage Broker\nMargot Robbie\n- Herself\nSelena Gomez\n- Herself\nRichard Thaler\n- Himself\nAnthony Bourdain\n- 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\"w:2015 in film\") about four denizens of the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble [collapse of the mid-2000s](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308 \"w:Financial crisis of 2007–08\"), and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.\n\n*Directed by [Adam McKay](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_McKay \"w:Adam McKay\"). Written by [Adam McKay](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_McKay \"w:Adam McKay\") and [Charles Randolph](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Randolph \"w:Charles Randolph\"), based on [the book](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Short \"w:The Big Short\") by [Michael Lewis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Lewis \"w:Michael Lewis\").*\n\n**This is a true story.**\n\n## Mark Baum\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=1 \"Edit section: Mark Baum\")\\]\n\n- I *am* happy when I'm unhappy.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Short_\$film\$#cite_note-1)\n- And I'm getting madder and madder, and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So, am I the fucked up one, or is he?\n- *\\[On the phone\\]* Let me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman.\n- So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit?\n- The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right\\!\n- *\\[Regarding Vennett\\]* I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No.\n- It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks?\n- We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.\n- I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table.\n- Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me.\n- We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed.\n- They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care.\n- I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.\n- *\\[Last line of the movie\\]* Okay...sell it all.\n\n## Michael Burry\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=2 \"Edit section: Michael Burry\")\\]\n\n- That's a nice haircut, did you do it yourself?\n- Lawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic.\n- I may have been early, but I'm not wrong.\n- *\\[Final letter to his investors\\]* I met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, \"I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and \\$145,000 in student loans.\" She wrote back, \"You're just what I've been looking for.\" She meant \"honest\", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, \"familiar.\" So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D.\n\n## Ben Rickert\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: Ben Rickert\")\\]\n\n- The NSA has a \\$52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it?\n- Do you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy.\n- If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?\n- Just...don't fucking dance.\n- I'm trying to sell \\$200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep.\n- If you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought.\n- The largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering.\n- You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich.\n\n## Jared Vennett\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=4 \"Edit section: Jared Vennett\")\\]\n\n- *\\[Opening monologue\\]* In the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until [Lewis Ranieri](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Ranieri \"w:Lewis Ranieri\") came on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea.\n- The money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing \\$50, \\$100, \\$200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb but come on. But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked.\n- Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it.\n- Is this America's angriest hedge fund?\n- Now their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised?\n- Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested.\n- *\\[Watching Mark talk with Wing Chau\\]* Look at his face, he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*.\n- \"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.\"\n- I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\\!*\n- *\\[Looking at his bonus check of \\$47 million\\]* So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story.\n\n## Other\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=5 \"Edit section: Other\")\\]\n\n- **Margot Robbie**: *\\[In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne\\]* Basically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages. *\\[Butler pours more champagne into her glass\\]* (Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called \"subprime.\" So, whenever you hear the word \"subprime,\" think \"shit.\" Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA, were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to \"short\" the bonds, which means \"to bet against.\" Got it? Good...*\\[Takes a sip of champagne\\]* Now, fuck off.\n- **Lawrence Fields**: Get me my fucking money back, you motherfucker.\n- **Cynthia Baum**: The therapist called. You did it again\\!\n- **Cynthia Baum**: You're not a saint. Saints don't live on Park Avenue.\n- **Charlie Geller**: Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again\\!\n- **Pub patron**: *\\[To Ben\\]* Are you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off\\!\n- **Jamie Shipley**: This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street\\!\n\n## Dialogue\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=6 \"Edit section: Dialogue\")\\]\n\n**Rabbi**: Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud.\n\n**Mrs. Baum**: Then what's the problem, Rabbi?\n\n**Rabbi**: It's the *reason* Mark is studying so hard: he's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God\\!\n\n**Mrs. Baum**: ...So has he found any?\n\n**Danny Moses**: You're completely sure of the math?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Look at him, that's my quant.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Your what?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.\n\n**Mark Baum**: That's pretty racist.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Look at his eyes. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China; he doesn't even speak English! Yeah, I'm sure of the math.\n\n**Jiang**: *\\[To the camera\\]* Actually, my name's \"Jiang\", and I do speak English. Jared likes to say I don't, because he thinks it makes me seem more \"authentic.\" And... I placed 2nd in that national math competition.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: *\\[pulling blocks from a Jenga tower\\]* As, zero. Bs, zero. Double Bs, zero. Triple Bs, zero... *\\[the tower topples\\]* And then that happens.\n\n**Mark Baum**: What is that?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: That's America's housing market.\n\n*\\[Baum's team stares in utter shock\\]*\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Thank you.\n\n**Chris**: Fuckin' A, Jared.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Shut your fuckin' mouth.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: I don't get it. Why are they confessing?\n\n**Danny Moses**: They're not confessing.\n\n**Porter Collins**: They're bragging.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: It's time to call bullshit.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: Bullshit on what?\n\n**Mark Baum**: Every-fucking-thing.\n***\n**Jared Vennett**: \\[*over the phone*\\] Is this America's angriest hedge fund?\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: All right, listen. I got one last question for you: How are you fucking us?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: There's a nicer way to say that, Vinnie.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: I'm serious. We'll buy your swaps, but only if you say how you're fucking us.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: I'm not fucking you, Vinnie. I'm kissing you. I'm looking deep into your eyes as I make sweet love to you, Vinnie. I'm handing you the deal of the century on a fucking platter. What do I get out of it? Easy. I got a \\$20-million-a-month negative carry. I got bosses trying to pull the plug because they think I'm out of my fucking mind, alright? We make this trade, those problems aren't so big anymore. And sure, swaps are a dark market, so I set the price.Whatever price I want. And when you come for the payday, I'm gonna rip your eyes out, I'm gonna make a fortune. But the good news is, Vinnie, you're not gonna care because you're gonna make *so* much fucking money. That's what I get out of it. Want to know what you get out of it? You get the ice cream, the hot fudge, the bananas, and the nuts. Right now, I get the sprinkles, and, yeah, if this goes through, I get the cherry. But *you* get the sundae, Vinnie! You get the sundae\\!\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: Alright, I buy that. Thank you.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: You want me to make you a market?\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: Yeah. We'll take \\$50 million Garibaldi IV BBB.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Sharpen your pencils. I'll get the paperwork ready.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: \\[*sighs after hanging up the phone*\\] Fuck you too.\n***\n\\[*Mark is talking to CDO manager Wing Chau in a Vegas restaurant; Vennett & Mark's team watch from a nearby table*\\]\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Uh oh, your boss is about to explode.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: No, he's too curious to explode.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Hold on, hold on, say that again. CDO A has parts of CDO B and CDO B has parts CDO A, but then both get put inside CDO C?\n\n**Wing Chau**: Yep, and that one's called a CDO Squared - a CDO of a CDO. And then there are CDOs made up of the opposite side of the bet you made with swaps. We call them synthetic CDOs.\n\n**Mark Baum**: What did you just say? \"Synthetic CDOs?\" That is fucking crazy.\n\n**Wing Chau**: It's not, it's awesome\\!\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Look at his face; he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Alright, let's say you have...50 million in subprime loans. How much money could be out there betting on it through these synthetic CDOs and swaps? Right now, tonight?:\n\n**Wing Chau**: 50 million? A billion dollars.\n\n**Mark Baum**: *What??*\n\n**Jared Vennett**: \\[*voiceover*\\] If the mortgage bonds that Michael Burry discovered were the match...\n\n**Mark Baum**: How much bigger is the market for insuring mortgage bonds than actual mortgages?\n\n**Wing Chau**: About twenty times.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: \\[*voiceover*\\] If the mortgage bonds were the match, and the CDOs were the kerosene-soaked rags, then the synthetic CDO was the atomic bomb with a drunk president holding his finger over the button. It was at that moment, in that dumb restaurant with that stupid look on his face, that Mark Baum realized the whole world economy might collapse.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: *\\[After his conversation with Wing Chau\\]* Short everything that man has touched. I want another half-billion in swaps by the end of the day.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Are you sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Yeah.\n\n**Porter Collins**: Where are you going?\n\n**Mark Baum**: I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: *\\[on the phone\\]* Ok, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: *\\[Walks into the room\\]* Gentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum...he says to 'fuck off'.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: *\\[Gets a call from Vennett\\]* Jared? It's chaos down here, where're we?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: *\\[Walks into the employee bathroom\\]* \"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.\" *\\[Sees a co-worker next to him\\]* Shane? SHANE?? *\\[Shane leaves\\]* Well, nobody's buying CDO's or mortgage bonds anymore, and everybody wants swaps. Swaps are now the most popular product on the street.\n\n**Mark Baum**: That's good for us.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Yes and no. I heard from somebody who heard from somebody—*\\[Another employee walks in\\]* No, Alex, no. Sorry. *\\[Alex turns around and leaves\\]* Benny Kleager over at Morgan's taking on some heavy losses in the bond department. Your ship might be taking on water; might be time to get our lifejacket and get out. Oh, I'm jacked. I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\\!*\n\n**Mark Baum**: ...Good.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Do you feel it?\n\n**Mark Baum**: No. *\\[Hangs up\\]*\n***\n**Bruce Miller**: As some of you may know, Bear Stearns has just received a loan from JP Morgan. Of course, we're gonna have to wait and see how the markets react, but that should lay to rest any concerns about the bank's health.\n\n**Debate host**: Now, I take it you have no plans to sell your \\$200 million in Bear stock?\n\n**Bruce Miller**: No, as a matter of fact, when we're done here, I'll probably go out and buy some more. *\\[Crowd lightly chuckles\\]*\n\n**Debate host**: For the opposing view, Mr. Baum.\n\n**Mark Baum**: I got to stand for this. *\\[Takes the microphone and stands\\]* Okay, hi. My firm's thesis is pretty simple. Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity that's on its way to decimating the world economy.\n\n**Bruce Miller**: How do you *really* feel? *\\[Crowd laughs\\]*\n\n**Mark Baum**: I'm glad you still have a sense of humor; I wouldn't if I were you. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem telling someone they're wrong...\n\n**Danny Moses**: *\\[In the crowd, looking at Bear Stearns' stock price live on his Blackberry, showing Vinny and Porter; they speak in hushed whispers\\]* (Bear Stearns is denying rumors of liquidity problems...Holy fuck, it's 39 now!)\n\n**Mark Baum**: ...is not so enjoyable. We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball. What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice or that fraud is mean. It's that, for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once.\n\n**Danny Moses**: (Jesus, Bear at 37. Bear's at 37.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: Eventually, people get caught, things go south.\n\n**Vinny Daniel**: (Plummeting.)\n\n**Danny Moses**: (It's fucking plummeting, man.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we're not doesn't make me feel alright and superior. It makes me feel...sad.\n\n**Danny Moses**: (Every time I fucking hit \"refresh\", it's dropping, man. Every time.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: And as much fun as it is to watch pompous, dumb Wall Streeters be wildly wrong, *\\[To Miller\\]* and you are wrong, sir, I just know, that at the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones that are going to have to pay for all this. Because they always, always do.\n\n**Porter Collins**: (It's 32. 32.)\n\n**Danny Moses**: (It's fucking tanked, man.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: That's my two cents, thank you. *\\[Sits down\\]*\n\n**Porter Collins**: (Let me drop a deuce on Deutsche).\n\n**Debate host**: Does our bull have a response?\n\n**Bruce Miller**: Only that, in the entire history of Wall Street, no investment bank has ever failed unless caught in criminal activities. So, yes, I stand by my Bear Stearns optimism.\n\n**Man in crowd**: Mr. Miller, I'm sorry, quick question. From the time you guys started talking, Bear Stearns stock has fallen more than 38%. *\\[People in the crowd start murmuring in surprise\\]* Would you still buy more?\n\n**Bruce Miller**: *\\[Trying to be optimistic\\]* Y-yeah, sure...of course I'd buy more. Why not?\n\n**Mark Baum**: **BOOM**.\n***\n**Charlie Geller**: *\\[As he and Jamie look around in the abandoned trading floor of Lehman Brothers after its collapse\\]* This isn't how I pictured it.\n\n**Jamie Shipley**: What'd you think we'd find?\n\n**Charlie Geller**: I don't know...Grownups.\n\n## Cast\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=7 \"Edit section: Cast\")\\]\n\n- [Christian Bale](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Christian_Bale \"Christian Bale\") - [Dr. Michael Burry](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Burry \"w:Michael Burry\")\n- [Steve Carell](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Carell \"w:Steve Carell\") - Mark Baum\n- [Ryan Gosling](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryan_Gosling \"w:Ryan Gosling\") - Jared Vennett\n- [Brad Pitt](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Brad_Pitt \"Brad Pitt\") - Ben Rickert\n- [John Magaro](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Magaro \"w:John Magaro\") - Charlie Geller\n- [Finn Wittrock](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finn_Wittrock \"w:Finn Wittrock\") - Jamie Shipley\n- [Hamish Linklater](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamish_Linklater \"w:Hamish Linklater\") - Porter Collins\n- [Rafe Spall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rafe_Spall \"w:Rafe Spall\") - Danny Moses\n- [Jeremy Strong](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Strong_\$actor\$ \"w:Jeremy Strong (actor)\") - Vinny Daniel\n- [Adepero Oduye](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adepero_Oduye \"w:Adepero Oduye\") - Kathy Tao\n- [Marisa Tomei](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marisa_Tomei \"w:Marisa Tomei\") - Cynthia Baum\n- [Melissa Leo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melissa_Leo \"w:Melissa Leo\") - Georgia Hale\n- Stanley Wong - Ted Jiang\n- Jeffry Griffin - Chris\n- [Byron Mann](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Byron_Mann \"w:Byron Mann\") - Mr. Chau\n- [Tracy Letts](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tracy_Letts \"w:Tracy Letts\") - Lawrence Fields\n- [Karen Gillan](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Karen_Gillan \"Karen Gillan\") - Evie\n- [Max Greenfield](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Greenfield \"w:Max Greenfield\") - Mortgage Broker\n- [Billy Magnussen](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Magnussen \"w:Billy Magnussen\") - Mortgage Broker\n- [Margot Robbie](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margot_Robbie \"w:Margot Robbie\") - Herself\n- [Selena Gomez](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Selena_Gomez \"Selena Gomez\") - Herself\n- [Richard Thaler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Thaler \"w:Richard Thaler\") - Himself\n- [Anthony Bourdain](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Anthony_Bourdain \"Anthony Bourdain\") - Himself\n\n## References\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_\$film\$&action=edit&section=8 \"Edit section: References\")\\]\n\n1. 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Written by [Adam McKay](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_McKay \"w:Adam McKay\") and [Charles Randolph](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Randolph \"w:Charles Randolph\"), based on [the book](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Short \"w:The Big Short\") by [Michael Lewis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Lewis \"w:Michael Lewis\").*\n\n**This is a true story.**\n\n- I *am* happy when I'm unhappy.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Short_\$film\$#cite_note-1)\n- And I'm getting madder and madder, and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So, am I the fucked up one, or is he?\n- *\\[On the phone\\]* Let me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman.\n- So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit?\n- The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right\\!\n- *\\[Regarding Vennett\\]* I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No.\n- It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks?\n- We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.\n- I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table.\n- Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me.\n- We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed.\n- They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care.\n- I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.\n- *\\[Last line of the movie\\]* Okay...sell it all.\n\n- That's a nice haircut, did you do it yourself?\n- Lawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic.\n- I may have been early, but I'm not wrong.\n- *\\[Final letter to his investors\\]* I met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, \"I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and \\$145,000 in student loans.\" She wrote back, \"You're just what I've been looking for.\" She meant \"honest\", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, \"familiar.\" So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D.\n\n- The NSA has a \\$52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it?\n- Do you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy.\n- If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?\n- Just...don't fucking dance.\n- I'm trying to sell \\$200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep.\n- If you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought.\n- The largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering.\n- You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich.\n\n- *\\[Opening monologue\\]* In the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until [Lewis Ranieri](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Ranieri \"w:Lewis Ranieri\") came on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea.\n- The money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing \\$50, \\$100, \\$200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb but come on. But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked.\n- Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it.\n- Is this America's angriest hedge fund?\n- Now their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised?\n- Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested.\n- *\\[Watching Mark talk with Wing Chau\\]* Look at his face, he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*.\n- \"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.\"\n- I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\\!*\n- *\\[Looking at his bonus check of \\$47 million\\]* So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story.\n\n- **Margot Robbie**: *\\[In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne\\]* Basically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages. *\\[Butler pours more champagne into her glass\\]* (Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called \"subprime.\" So, whenever you hear the word \"subprime,\" think \"shit.\" Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA, were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to \"short\" the bonds, which means \"to bet against.\" Got it? Good...*\\[Takes a sip of champagne\\]* Now, fuck off.\n- **Lawrence Fields**: Get me my fucking money back, you motherfucker.\n- **Cynthia Baum**: The therapist called. You did it again\\!\n- **Cynthia Baum**: You're not a saint. Saints don't live on Park Avenue.\n- **Charlie Geller**: Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again\\!\n- **Pub patron**: *\\[To Ben\\]* Are you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off\\!\n- **Jamie Shipley**: This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street\\!\n\n**Rabbi**: Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud.\n\n**Mrs. Baum**: Then what's the problem, Rabbi?\n\n**Rabbi**: It's the *reason* Mark is studying so hard: he's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God\\!\n\n**Mrs. Baum**: ...So has he found any?\n\n**Danny Moses**: You're completely sure of the math?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Look at him, that's my quant.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Your what?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.\n\n**Mark Baum**: That's pretty racist.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Look at his eyes. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China; he doesn't even speak English! Yeah, I'm sure of the math.\n\n**Jiang**: *\\[To the camera\\]* Actually, my name's \"Jiang\", and I do speak English. Jared likes to say I don't, because he thinks it makes me seem more \"authentic.\" And... I placed 2nd in that national math competition.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: *\\[pulling blocks from a Jenga tower\\]* As, zero. Bs, zero. Double Bs, zero. Triple Bs, zero... *\\[the tower topples\\]* And then that happens.\n\n**Mark Baum**: What is that?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: That's America's housing market.\n\n*\\[Baum's team stares in utter shock\\]*\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Thank you.\n\n**Chris**: Fuckin' A, Jared.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Shut your fuckin' mouth.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: I don't get it. Why are they confessing?\n\n**Danny Moses**: They're not confessing.\n\n**Porter Collins**: They're bragging.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: It's time to call bullshit.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: Bullshit on what?\n\n**Mark Baum**: Every-fucking-thing.\n***\n**Jared Vennett**: \\[*over the phone*\\] Is this America's angriest hedge fund?\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: All right, listen. I got one last question for you: How are you fucking us?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: There's a nicer way to say that, Vinnie.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: I'm serious. We'll buy your swaps, but only if you say how you're fucking us.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: I'm not fucking you, Vinnie. I'm kissing you. I'm looking deep into your eyes as I make sweet love to you, Vinnie. I'm handing you the deal of the century on a fucking platter. What do I get out of it? Easy. I got a \\$20-million-a-month negative carry. I got bosses trying to pull the plug because they think I'm out of my fucking mind, alright? We make this trade, those problems aren't so big anymore. And sure, swaps are a dark market, so I set the price.Whatever price I want. And when you come for the payday, I'm gonna rip your eyes out, I'm gonna make a fortune. But the good news is, Vinnie, you're not gonna care because you're gonna make *so* much fucking money. That's what I get out of it. Want to know what you get out of it? You get the ice cream, the hot fudge, the bananas, and the nuts. Right now, I get the sprinkles, and, yeah, if this goes through, I get the cherry. But *you* get the sundae, Vinnie! You get the sundae\\!\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: Alright, I buy that. Thank you.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: You want me to make you a market?\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: Yeah. We'll take \\$50 million Garibaldi IV BBB.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Sharpen your pencils. I'll get the paperwork ready.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: \\[*sighs after hanging up the phone*\\] Fuck you too.\n***\n\\[*Mark is talking to CDO manager Wing Chau in a Vegas restaurant; Vennett & Mark's team watch from a nearby table*\\]\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Uh oh, your boss is about to explode.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: No, he's too curious to explode.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Hold on, hold on, say that again. CDO A has parts of CDO B and CDO B has parts CDO A, but then both get put inside CDO C?\n\n**Wing Chau**: Yep, and that one's called a CDO Squared - a CDO of a CDO. And then there are CDOs made up of the opposite side of the bet you made with swaps. We call them synthetic CDOs.\n\n**Mark Baum**: What did you just say? \"Synthetic CDOs?\" That is fucking crazy.\n\n**Wing Chau**: It's not, it's awesome\\!\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Look at his face; he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Alright, let's say you have...50 million in subprime loans. How much money could be out there betting on it through these synthetic CDOs and swaps? Right now, tonight?:\n\n**Wing Chau**: 50 million? A billion dollars.\n\n**Mark Baum**: *What??*\n\n**Jared Vennett**: \\[*voiceover*\\] If the mortgage bonds that Michael Burry discovered were the match...\n\n**Mark Baum**: How much bigger is the market for insuring mortgage bonds than actual mortgages?\n\n**Wing Chau**: About twenty times.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: \\[*voiceover*\\] If the mortgage bonds were the match, and the CDOs were the kerosene-soaked rags, then the synthetic CDO was the atomic bomb with a drunk president holding his finger over the button. It was at that moment, in that dumb restaurant with that stupid look on his face, that Mark Baum realized the whole world economy might collapse.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: *\\[After his conversation with Wing Chau\\]* Short everything that man has touched. I want another half-billion in swaps by the end of the day.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Are you sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you.\n\n**Mark Baum**: Yeah.\n\n**Porter Collins**: Where are you going?\n\n**Mark Baum**: I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: *\\[on the phone\\]* Ok, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off.\n\n**Vinnie Daniel**: *\\[Walks into the room\\]* Gentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum...he says to 'fuck off'.\n***\n**Mark Baum**: *\\[Gets a call from Vennett\\]* Jared? It's chaos down here, where're we?\n\n**Jared Vennett**: *\\[Walks into the employee bathroom\\]* \"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.\" *\\[Sees a co-worker next to him\\]* Shane? SHANE?? *\\[Shane leaves\\]* Well, nobody's buying CDO's or mortgage bonds anymore, and everybody wants swaps. Swaps are now the most popular product on the street.\n\n**Mark Baum**: That's good for us.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Yes and no. I heard from somebody who heard from somebody—*\\[Another employee walks in\\]* No, Alex, no. Sorry. *\\[Alex turns around and leaves\\]* Benny Kleager over at Morgan's taking on some heavy losses in the bond department. Your ship might be taking on water; might be time to get our lifejacket and get out. Oh, I'm jacked. I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\\!*\n\n**Mark Baum**: ...Good.\n\n**Jared Vennett**: Do you feel it?\n\n**Mark Baum**: No. *\\[Hangs up\\]*\n***\n**Bruce Miller**: As some of you may know, Bear Stearns has just received a loan from JP Morgan. Of course, we're gonna have to wait and see how the markets react, but that should lay to rest any concerns about the bank's health.\n\n**Debate host**: Now, I take it you have no plans to sell your \\$200 million in Bear stock?\n\n**Bruce Miller**: No, as a matter of fact, when we're done here, I'll probably go out and buy some more. *\\[Crowd lightly chuckles\\]*\n\n**Debate host**: For the opposing view, Mr. Baum.\n\n**Mark Baum**: I got to stand for this. *\\[Takes the microphone and stands\\]* Okay, hi. My firm's thesis is pretty simple. Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity that's on its way to decimating the world economy.\n\n**Bruce Miller**: How do you *really* feel? *\\[Crowd laughs\\]*\n\n**Mark Baum**: I'm glad you still have a sense of humor; I wouldn't if I were you. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem telling someone they're wrong...\n\n**Danny Moses**: *\\[In the crowd, looking at Bear Stearns' stock price live on his Blackberry, showing Vinny and Porter; they speak in hushed whispers\\]* (Bear Stearns is denying rumors of liquidity problems...Holy fuck, it's 39 now!)\n\n**Mark Baum**: ...is not so enjoyable. We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball. What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice or that fraud is mean. It's that, for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once.\n\n**Danny Moses**: (Jesus, Bear at 37. Bear's at 37.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: Eventually, people get caught, things go south.\n\n**Vinny Daniel**: (Plummeting.)\n\n**Danny Moses**: (It's fucking plummeting, man.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we're not doesn't make me feel alright and superior. It makes me feel...sad.\n\n**Danny Moses**: (Every time I fucking hit \"refresh\", it's dropping, man. Every time.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: And as much fun as it is to watch pompous, dumb Wall Streeters be wildly wrong, *\\[To Miller\\]* and you are wrong, sir, I just know, that at the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones that are going to have to pay for all this. Because they always, always do.\n\n**Porter Collins**: (It's 32. 32.)\n\n**Danny Moses**: (It's fucking tanked, man.)\n\n**Mark Baum**: That's my two cents, thank you. *\\[Sits down\\]*\n\n**Porter Collins**: (Let me drop a deuce on Deutsche).\n\n**Debate host**: Does our bull have a response?\n\n**Bruce Miller**: Only that, in the entire history of Wall Street, no investment bank has ever failed unless caught in criminal activities. So, yes, I stand by my Bear Stearns optimism.\n\n**Man in crowd**: Mr. Miller, I'm sorry, quick question. 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The Big Short is a 2015 film about four denizens of the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s , and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight. Directed by Adam McKay . Written by Adam McKay and Charles Randolph , based on the book by Michael Lewis . This is a true story. I am happy when I'm unhappy. [ 1 ] And I'm getting madder and madder, and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So, am I the fucked up one, or is he? [On the phone] Let me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman. So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit? The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right! [Regarding Vennett] I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No. It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks? We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table. Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me. We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed. They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care. I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people. [Last line of the movie] Okay...sell it all. That's a nice haircut, did you do it yourself? Lawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic. I may have been early, but I'm not wrong. [Final letter to his investors] I met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, "I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and $145,000 in student loans." She wrote back, "You're just what I've been looking for." She meant "honest", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, "familiar." So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D. The NSA has a $52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it? Do you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy. If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that? Just...don't fucking dance. I'm trying to sell $200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep. If you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought. The largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering. You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich. [Opening monologue] In the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until Lewis Ranieri came on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea. The money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing $50, $100, $200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb but come on. But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked. Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it. Is this America's angriest hedge fund? Now their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised? Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested. [Watching Mark talk with Wing Chau] Look at his face, he looks like the bad guy from Dune . "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE TITS! [Looking at his bonus check of $47 million] So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story. Margot Robbie : [In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne] Basically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages. [Butler pours more champagne into her glass] (Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called "subprime." So, whenever you hear the word "subprime," think "shit." Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA, were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to "short" the bonds, which means "to bet against." Got it? Good... [Takes a sip of champagne] Now, fuck off. Lawrence Fields : Get me my fucking money back, you motherfucker. Cynthia Baum : The therapist called. You did it again! Cynthia Baum : You're not a saint. Saints don't live on Park Avenue. Charlie Geller : Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again! Pub patron : [To Ben] Are you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off! Jamie Shipley : This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street! Rabbi : Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud. Mrs. Baum : Then what's the problem, Rabbi? Rabbi : It's the reason Mark is studying so hard: he's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God! Mrs. Baum : ...So has he found any? Danny Moses : You're completely sure of the math? Jared Vennett : Look at him, that's my quant. Mark Baum : Your what? Jared Vennett : My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face. Mark Baum : That's pretty racist. Jared Vennett : Look at his eyes. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China; he doesn't even speak English! Yeah, I'm sure of the math. Jiang : [To the camera] Actually, my name's "Jiang", and I do speak English. Jared likes to say I don't, because he thinks it makes me seem more "authentic." And... I placed 2nd in that national math competition. Jared Vennett : [pulling blocks from a Jenga tower] As, zero. Bs, zero. Double Bs, zero. Triple Bs, zero... [the tower topples] And then that happens. Mark Baum : What is that? Jared Vennett : That's America's housing market. [Baum's team stares in utter shock] Jared Vennett : Thank you. Chris : Fuckin' A, Jared. Jared Vennett : Shut your fuckin' mouth. Mark Baum : I don't get it. Why are they confessing? Danny Moses : They're not confessing. Porter Collins : They're bragging. Mark Baum : It's time to call bullshit. Vinnie Daniel : Bullshit on what? Mark Baum : Every-fucking-thing. Jared Vennett : [ over the phone ] Is this America's angriest hedge fund? Vinnie Daniel : All right, listen. I got one last question for you: How are you fucking us? Jared Vennett : There's a nicer way to say that, Vinnie. Vinnie Daniel : I'm serious. We'll buy your swaps, but only if you say how you're fucking us. Jared Vennett : I'm not fucking you, Vinnie. I'm kissing you. I'm looking deep into your eyes as I make sweet love to you, Vinnie. I'm handing you the deal of the century on a fucking platter. What do I get out of it? Easy. I got a $20-million-a-month negative carry. I got bosses trying to pull the plug because they think I'm out of my fucking mind, alright? We make this trade, those problems aren't so big anymore. And sure, swaps are a dark market, so I set the price.Whatever price I want. And when you come for the payday, I'm gonna rip your eyes out, I'm gonna make a fortune. But the good news is, Vinnie, you're not gonna care because you're gonna make so much fucking money. That's what I get out of it. Want to know what you get out of it? You get the ice cream, the hot fudge, the bananas, and the nuts. Right now, I get the sprinkles, and, yeah, if this goes through, I get the cherry. But you get the sundae, Vinnie! You get the sundae! Vinnie Daniel : Alright, I buy that. Thank you. Jared Vennett : You want me to make you a market? Vinnie Daniel : Yeah. We'll take $50 million Garibaldi IV BBB. Jared Vennett : Sharpen your pencils. I'll get the paperwork ready. Vinnie Daniel : [ sighs after hanging up the phone ] Fuck you too. [ Mark is talking to CDO manager Wing Chau in a Vegas restaurant; Vennett & Mark's team watch from a nearby table ] Jared Vennett : Uh oh, your boss is about to explode. Vinnie Daniel : No, he's too curious to explode. Mark Baum : Hold on, hold on, say that again. CDO A has parts of CDO B and CDO B has parts CDO A, but then both get put inside CDO C? Wing Chau : Yep, and that one's called a CDO Squared - a CDO of a CDO. And then there are CDOs made up of the opposite side of the bet you made with swaps. We call them synthetic CDOs. Mark Baum : What did you just say? "Synthetic CDOs?" That is fucking crazy. Wing Chau : It's not, it's awesome! Jared Vennett : Look at his face; he looks like the bad guy from Dune . Mark Baum : Alright, let's say you have...50 million in subprime loans. How much money could be out there betting on it through these synthetic CDOs and swaps? Right now, tonight?: Wing Chau : 50 million? A billion dollars. Mark Baum : What?? Jared Vennett : [ voiceover ] If the mortgage bonds that Michael Burry discovered were the match... Mark Baum : How much bigger is the market for insuring mortgage bonds than actual mortgages? Wing Chau : About twenty times. Jared Vennett : [ voiceover ] If the mortgage bonds were the match, and the CDOs were the kerosene-soaked rags, then the synthetic CDO was the atomic bomb with a drunk president holding his finger over the button. It was at that moment, in that dumb restaurant with that stupid look on his face, that Mark Baum realized the whole world economy might collapse. Mark Baum : [After his conversation with Wing Chau] Short everything that man has touched. I want another half-billion in swaps by the end of the day. Jared Vennett : Are you sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you. Mark Baum : Yeah. Porter Collins : Where are you going? Mark Baum : I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table. Mark Baum : [on the phone] Ok, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off. Vinnie Daniel : [Walks into the room] Gentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum...he says to 'fuck off'. Mark Baum : [Gets a call from Vennett] Jared? It's chaos down here, where're we? Jared Vennett : [Walks into the employee bathroom] "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." [Sees a co-worker next to him] Shane? SHANE?? [Shane leaves] Well, nobody's buying CDO's or mortgage bonds anymore, and everybody wants swaps. Swaps are now the most popular product on the street. Mark Baum : That's good for us. Jared Vennett : Yes and no. I heard from somebody who heard from somebody— [Another employee walks in] No, Alex, no. Sorry. [Alex turns around and leaves] Benny Kleager over at Morgan's taking on some heavy losses in the bond department. Your ship might be taking on water; might be time to get our lifejacket and get out. Oh, I'm jacked. I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE TITS! Mark Baum : ...Good. Jared Vennett : Do you feel it? Mark Baum : No. [Hangs up] Bruce Miller : As some of you may know, Bear Stearns has just received a loan from JP Morgan. Of course, we're gonna have to wait and see how the markets react, but that should lay to rest any concerns about the bank's health. Debate host : Now, I take it you have no plans to sell your $200 million in Bear stock? Bruce Miller : No, as a matter of fact, when we're done here, I'll probably go out and buy some more. [Crowd lightly chuckles] Debate host : For the opposing view, Mr. Baum. Mark Baum : I got to stand for this. [Takes the microphone and stands] Okay, hi. My firm's thesis is pretty simple. Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity that's on its way to decimating the world economy. Bruce Miller : How do you really feel? [Crowd laughs] Mark Baum : I'm glad you still have a sense of humor; I wouldn't if I were you. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem telling someone they're wrong... Danny Moses : [In the crowd, looking at Bear Stearns' stock price live on his Blackberry, showing Vinny and Porter; they speak in hushed whispers] (Bear Stearns is denying rumors of liquidity problems...Holy fuck, it's 39 now!) Mark Baum : ...is not so enjoyable. We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball. What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice or that fraud is mean. It's that, for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Danny Moses : (Jesus, Bear at 37. Bear's at 37.) Mark Baum : Eventually, people get caught, things go south. Vinny Daniel : (Plummeting.) Danny Moses : (It's fucking plummeting, man.) Mark Baum : When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we're not doesn't make me feel alright and superior. It makes me feel...sad. Danny Moses : (Every time I fucking hit "refresh", it's dropping, man. Every time.) Mark Baum : And as much fun as it is to watch pompous, dumb Wall Streeters be wildly wrong, [To Miller] and you are wrong, sir, I just know, that at the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones that are going to have to pay for all this. Because they always, always do. Porter Collins : (It's 32. 32.) Danny Moses : (It's fucking tanked, man.) Mark Baum : That's my two cents, thank you. [Sits down] Porter Collins : (Let me drop a deuce on Deutsche). Debate host : Does our bull have a response? Bruce Miller : Only that, in the entire history of Wall Street, no investment bank has ever failed unless caught in criminal activities. So, yes, I stand by my Bear Stearns optimism. Man in crowd : Mr. Miller, I'm sorry, quick question. From the time you guys started talking, Bear Stearns stock has fallen more than 38%. [People in the crowd start murmuring in surprise] Would you still buy more? Bruce Miller : [Trying to be optimistic] Y-yeah, sure...of course I'd buy more. Why not? Mark Baum : BOOM . Charlie Geller : [As he and Jamie look around in the abandoned trading floor of Lehman Brothers after its collapse] This isn't how I pictured it. Jamie Shipley : What'd you think we'd find? Charlie Geller : I don't know...Grownups. 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Written by [Adam McKay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_McKay "w:Adam McKay") and [Charles Randolph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Randolph "w:Charles Randolph"), based on [the book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short "w:The Big Short") by [Michael Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis "w:Michael Lewis").* **This is a true story.** ## Mark Baum \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Mark Baum")\] - I *am* happy when I'm unhappy.[\[1\]](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_$film$#cite_note-1) - And I'm getting madder and madder, and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So, am I the fucked up one, or is he? - *\[On the phone\]* Let me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman. - So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit? - The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right\! - *\[Regarding Vennett\]* I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No. - It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks? - We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. - I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table. - Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me. - We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed. - They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care. - I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people. - *\[Last line of the movie\]* Okay...sell it all. ## Michael Burry \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Michael Burry")\] - That's a nice haircut, did you do it yourself? - Lawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic. - I may have been early, but I'm not wrong. - *\[Final letter to his investors\]* I met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, "I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and \$145,000 in student loans." She wrote back, "You're just what I've been looking for." She meant "honest", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, "familiar." So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D. ## Ben Rickert \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Ben Rickert")\] - The NSA has a \$52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it? - Do you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy. - If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that? - Just...don't fucking dance. - I'm trying to sell \$200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep. - If you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought. - The largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering. - You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich. ## Jared Vennett \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Jared Vennett")\] - *\[Opening monologue\]* In the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until [Lewis Ranieri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Ranieri "w:Lewis Ranieri") came on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea. - The money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing \$50, \$100, \$200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb but come on. But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked. - Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it. - Is this America's angriest hedge fund? - Now their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised? - Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested. - *\[Watching Mark talk with Wing Chau\]* Look at his face, he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*. - "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." - I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\!* - *\[Looking at his bonus check of \$47 million\]* So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story. ## Other \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Other")\] - **Margot Robbie**: *\[In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne\]* Basically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages. *\[Butler pours more champagne into her glass\]* (Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called "subprime." So, whenever you hear the word "subprime," think "shit." Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA, were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to "short" the bonds, which means "to bet against." Got it? Good...*\[Takes a sip of champagne\]* Now, fuck off. - **Lawrence Fields**: Get me my fucking money back, you motherfucker. - **Cynthia Baum**: The therapist called. You did it again\! - **Cynthia Baum**: You're not a saint. Saints don't live on Park Avenue. - **Charlie Geller**: Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again\! - **Pub patron**: *\[To Ben\]* Are you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off\! - **Jamie Shipley**: This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street\! ## Dialogue \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Dialogue")\] **Rabbi**: Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud. **Mrs. Baum**: Then what's the problem, Rabbi? **Rabbi**: It's the *reason* Mark is studying so hard: he's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God\! **Mrs. Baum**: ...So has he found any? **Danny Moses**: You're completely sure of the math? **Jared Vennett**: Look at him, that's my quant. **Mark Baum**: Your what? **Jared Vennett**: My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face. **Mark Baum**: That's pretty racist. **Jared Vennett**: Look at his eyes. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China; he doesn't even speak English! Yeah, I'm sure of the math. **Jiang**: *\[To the camera\]* Actually, my name's "Jiang", and I do speak English. Jared likes to say I don't, because he thinks it makes me seem more "authentic." And... I placed 2nd in that national math competition. **Jared Vennett**: *\[pulling blocks from a Jenga tower\]* As, zero. Bs, zero. Double Bs, zero. Triple Bs, zero... *\[the tower topples\]* And then that happens. **Mark Baum**: What is that? **Jared Vennett**: That's America's housing market. *\[Baum's team stares in utter shock\]* **Jared Vennett**: Thank you. **Chris**: Fuckin' A, Jared. **Jared Vennett**: Shut your fuckin' mouth. *** **Mark Baum**: I don't get it. Why are they confessing? **Danny Moses**: They're not confessing. **Porter Collins**: They're bragging. *** **Mark Baum**: It's time to call bullshit. **Vinnie Daniel**: Bullshit on what? **Mark Baum**: Every-fucking-thing. *** **Jared Vennett**: \[*over the phone*\] Is this America's angriest hedge fund? **Vinnie Daniel**: All right, listen. I got one last question for you: How are you fucking us? **Jared Vennett**: There's a nicer way to say that, Vinnie. **Vinnie Daniel**: I'm serious. We'll buy your swaps, but only if you say how you're fucking us. **Jared Vennett**: I'm not fucking you, Vinnie. I'm kissing you. I'm looking deep into your eyes as I make sweet love to you, Vinnie. I'm handing you the deal of the century on a fucking platter. What do I get out of it? Easy. I got a \$20-million-a-month negative carry. I got bosses trying to pull the plug because they think I'm out of my fucking mind, alright? We make this trade, those problems aren't so big anymore. And sure, swaps are a dark market, so I set the price.Whatever price I want. And when you come for the payday, I'm gonna rip your eyes out, I'm gonna make a fortune. But the good news is, Vinnie, you're not gonna care because you're gonna make *so* much fucking money. That's what I get out of it. Want to know what you get out of it? You get the ice cream, the hot fudge, the bananas, and the nuts. Right now, I get the sprinkles, and, yeah, if this goes through, I get the cherry. But *you* get the sundae, Vinnie! You get the sundae\! **Vinnie Daniel**: Alright, I buy that. Thank you. **Jared Vennett**: You want me to make you a market? **Vinnie Daniel**: Yeah. We'll take \$50 million Garibaldi IV BBB. **Jared Vennett**: Sharpen your pencils. I'll get the paperwork ready. **Vinnie Daniel**: \[*sighs after hanging up the phone*\] Fuck you too. *** \[*Mark is talking to CDO manager Wing Chau in a Vegas restaurant; Vennett & Mark's team watch from a nearby table*\] **Jared Vennett**: Uh oh, your boss is about to explode. **Vinnie Daniel**: No, he's too curious to explode. **Mark Baum**: Hold on, hold on, say that again. CDO A has parts of CDO B and CDO B has parts CDO A, but then both get put inside CDO C? **Wing Chau**: Yep, and that one's called a CDO Squared - a CDO of a CDO. And then there are CDOs made up of the opposite side of the bet you made with swaps. We call them synthetic CDOs. **Mark Baum**: What did you just say? "Synthetic CDOs?" That is fucking crazy. **Wing Chau**: It's not, it's awesome\! **Jared Vennett**: Look at his face; he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*. **Mark Baum**: Alright, let's say you have...50 million in subprime loans. How much money could be out there betting on it through these synthetic CDOs and swaps? Right now, tonight?: **Wing Chau**: 50 million? A billion dollars. **Mark Baum**: *What??* **Jared Vennett**: \[*voiceover*\] If the mortgage bonds that Michael Burry discovered were the match... **Mark Baum**: How much bigger is the market for insuring mortgage bonds than actual mortgages? **Wing Chau**: About twenty times. **Jared Vennett**: \[*voiceover*\] If the mortgage bonds were the match, and the CDOs were the kerosene-soaked rags, then the synthetic CDO was the atomic bomb with a drunk president holding his finger over the button. It was at that moment, in that dumb restaurant with that stupid look on his face, that Mark Baum realized the whole world economy might collapse. *** **Mark Baum**: *\[After his conversation with Wing Chau\]* Short everything that man has touched. I want another half-billion in swaps by the end of the day. **Jared Vennett**: Are you sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you. **Mark Baum**: Yeah. **Porter Collins**: Where are you going? **Mark Baum**: I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table. *** **Mark Baum**: *\[on the phone\]* Ok, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off. **Vinnie Daniel**: *\[Walks into the room\]* Gentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum...he says to 'fuck off'. *** **Mark Baum**: *\[Gets a call from Vennett\]* Jared? It's chaos down here, where're we? **Jared Vennett**: *\[Walks into the employee bathroom\]* "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." *\[Sees a co-worker next to him\]* Shane? SHANE?? *\[Shane leaves\]* Well, nobody's buying CDO's or mortgage bonds anymore, and everybody wants swaps. Swaps are now the most popular product on the street. **Mark Baum**: That's good for us. **Jared Vennett**: Yes and no. I heard from somebody who heard from somebody—*\[Another employee walks in\]* No, Alex, no. Sorry. *\[Alex turns around and leaves\]* Benny Kleager over at Morgan's taking on some heavy losses in the bond department. Your ship might be taking on water; might be time to get our lifejacket and get out. Oh, I'm jacked. I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\!* **Mark Baum**: ...Good. **Jared Vennett**: Do you feel it? **Mark Baum**: No. *\[Hangs up\]* *** **Bruce Miller**: As some of you may know, Bear Stearns has just received a loan from JP Morgan. Of course, we're gonna have to wait and see how the markets react, but that should lay to rest any concerns about the bank's health. **Debate host**: Now, I take it you have no plans to sell your \$200 million in Bear stock? **Bruce Miller**: No, as a matter of fact, when we're done here, I'll probably go out and buy some more. *\[Crowd lightly chuckles\]* **Debate host**: For the opposing view, Mr. Baum. **Mark Baum**: I got to stand for this. *\[Takes the microphone and stands\]* Okay, hi. My firm's thesis is pretty simple. Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity that's on its way to decimating the world economy. **Bruce Miller**: How do you *really* feel? *\[Crowd laughs\]* **Mark Baum**: I'm glad you still have a sense of humor; I wouldn't if I were you. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem telling someone they're wrong... **Danny Moses**: *\[In the crowd, looking at Bear Stearns' stock price live on his Blackberry, showing Vinny and Porter; they speak in hushed whispers\]* (Bear Stearns is denying rumors of liquidity problems...Holy fuck, it's 39 now!) **Mark Baum**: ...is not so enjoyable. We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball. What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice or that fraud is mean. It's that, for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. **Danny Moses**: (Jesus, Bear at 37. Bear's at 37.) **Mark Baum**: Eventually, people get caught, things go south. **Vinny Daniel**: (Plummeting.) **Danny Moses**: (It's fucking plummeting, man.) **Mark Baum**: When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we're not doesn't make me feel alright and superior. It makes me feel...sad. **Danny Moses**: (Every time I fucking hit "refresh", it's dropping, man. Every time.) **Mark Baum**: And as much fun as it is to watch pompous, dumb Wall Streeters be wildly wrong, *\[To Miller\]* and you are wrong, sir, I just know, that at the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones that are going to have to pay for all this. Because they always, always do. **Porter Collins**: (It's 32. 32.) **Danny Moses**: (It's fucking tanked, man.) **Mark Baum**: That's my two cents, thank you. *\[Sits down\]* **Porter Collins**: (Let me drop a deuce on Deutsche). **Debate host**: Does our bull have a response? **Bruce Miller**: Only that, in the entire history of Wall Street, no investment bank has ever failed unless caught in criminal activities. So, yes, I stand by my Bear Stearns optimism. **Man in crowd**: Mr. Miller, I'm sorry, quick question. From the time you guys started talking, Bear Stearns stock has fallen more than 38%. *\[People in the crowd start murmuring in surprise\]* Would you still buy more? **Bruce Miller**: *\[Trying to be optimistic\]* Y-yeah, sure...of course I'd buy more. Why not? **Mark Baum**: **BOOM**. *** **Charlie Geller**: *\[As he and Jamie look around in the abandoned trading floor of Lehman Brothers after its collapse\]* This isn't how I pictured it. **Jamie Shipley**: What'd you think we'd find? **Charlie Geller**: I don't know...Grownups. ## Cast \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Cast")\] - [Christian Bale](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christian_Bale "Christian Bale") - [Dr. Michael Burry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry "w:Michael Burry") - [Steve Carell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell "w:Steve Carell") - Mark Baum - [Ryan Gosling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Gosling "w:Ryan Gosling") - Jared Vennett - [Brad Pitt](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt "Brad Pitt") - Ben Rickert - [John Magaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magaro "w:John Magaro") - Charlie Geller - [Finn Wittrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Wittrock "w:Finn Wittrock") - Jamie Shipley - [Hamish Linklater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Linklater "w:Hamish Linklater") - Porter Collins - [Rafe Spall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafe_Spall "w:Rafe Spall") - Danny Moses - [Jeremy Strong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Strong_$actor$ "w:Jeremy Strong (actor)") - Vinny Daniel - [Adepero Oduye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adepero_Oduye "w:Adepero Oduye") - Kathy Tao - [Marisa Tomei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa_Tomei "w:Marisa Tomei") - Cynthia Baum - [Melissa Leo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Leo "w:Melissa Leo") - Georgia Hale - Stanley Wong - Ted Jiang - Jeffry Griffin - Chris - [Byron Mann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Mann "w:Byron Mann") - Mr. Chau - [Tracy Letts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Letts "w:Tracy Letts") - Lawrence Fields - [Karen Gillan](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karen_Gillan "Karen Gillan") - Evie - [Max Greenfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Greenfield "w:Max Greenfield") - Mortgage Broker - [Billy Magnussen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Magnussen "w:Billy Magnussen") - Mortgage Broker - [Margot Robbie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Robbie "w:Margot Robbie") - Herself - [Selena Gomez](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez "Selena Gomez") - Herself - [Richard Thaler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thaler "w:Richard Thaler") - Himself - [Anthony Bourdain](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain "Anthony Bourdain") - Himself ## References \[[edit](https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Short_$film$&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: References")\] 1. 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***[The Big Short](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_$film$ "w:The Big Short (film)")*** is a [2015 film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_film "w:2015 in film") about four denizens of the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble [collapse of the mid-2000s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308 "w:Financial crisis of 2007–08"), and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight. *Directed by [Adam McKay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_McKay "w:Adam McKay"). Written by [Adam McKay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_McKay "w:Adam McKay") and [Charles Randolph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Randolph "w:Charles Randolph"), based on [the book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short "w:The Big Short") by [Michael Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis "w:Michael Lewis").* **This is a true story.** - I *am* happy when I'm unhappy.[\[1\]](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_$film$#cite_note-1) - And I'm getting madder and madder, and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So, am I the fucked up one, or is he? - *\[On the phone\]* Let me ask you this: What company treats its customers that shittily and succeeds?...Fine, okay, Goldman. - So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit? - The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right\! - *\[Regarding Vennett\]* I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No. - It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks? - We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. - I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table. - Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me. - We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed. - They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care. - I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people. - *\[Last line of the movie\]* Okay...sell it all. - That's a nice haircut, did you do it yourself? - Lawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic. - I may have been early, but I'm not wrong. - *\[Final letter to his investors\]* I met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, "I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and \$145,000 in student loans." She wrote back, "You're just what I've been looking for." She meant "honest", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, "familiar." So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D. - The NSA has a \$52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it? - Do you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy. - If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that? - Just...don't fucking dance. - I'm trying to sell \$200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep. - If you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought. - The largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering. - You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich. - *\[Opening monologue\]* In the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until [Lewis Ranieri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Ranieri "w:Lewis Ranieri") came on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea. - The money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing \$50, \$100, \$200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb but come on. But there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked. - Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it. - Is this America's angriest hedge fund? - Now their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised? - Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested. - *\[Watching Mark talk with Wing Chau\]* Look at his face, he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*. - "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." - I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\!* - *\[Looking at his bonus check of \$47 million\]* So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story. - **Margot Robbie**: *\[In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne\]* Basically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages. *\[Butler pours more champagne into her glass\]* (Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called "subprime." So, whenever you hear the word "subprime," think "shit." Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA, were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to "short" the bonds, which means "to bet against." Got it? Good...*\[Takes a sip of champagne\]* Now, fuck off. - **Lawrence Fields**: Get me my fucking money back, you motherfucker. - **Cynthia Baum**: The therapist called. You did it again\! - **Cynthia Baum**: You're not a saint. Saints don't live on Park Avenue. - **Charlie Geller**: Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again\! - **Pub patron**: *\[To Ben\]* Are you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off\! - **Jamie Shipley**: This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street\! **Rabbi**: Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud. **Mrs. Baum**: Then what's the problem, Rabbi? **Rabbi**: It's the *reason* Mark is studying so hard: he's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God\! **Mrs. Baum**: ...So has he found any? **Danny Moses**: You're completely sure of the math? **Jared Vennett**: Look at him, that's my quant. **Mark Baum**: Your what? **Jared Vennett**: My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face. **Mark Baum**: That's pretty racist. **Jared Vennett**: Look at his eyes. I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China; he doesn't even speak English! Yeah, I'm sure of the math. **Jiang**: *\[To the camera\]* Actually, my name's "Jiang", and I do speak English. Jared likes to say I don't, because he thinks it makes me seem more "authentic." And... I placed 2nd in that national math competition. **Jared Vennett**: *\[pulling blocks from a Jenga tower\]* As, zero. Bs, zero. Double Bs, zero. Triple Bs, zero... *\[the tower topples\]* And then that happens. **Mark Baum**: What is that? **Jared Vennett**: That's America's housing market. *\[Baum's team stares in utter shock\]* **Jared Vennett**: Thank you. **Chris**: Fuckin' A, Jared. **Jared Vennett**: Shut your fuckin' mouth. *** **Mark Baum**: I don't get it. Why are they confessing? **Danny Moses**: They're not confessing. **Porter Collins**: They're bragging. *** **Mark Baum**: It's time to call bullshit. **Vinnie Daniel**: Bullshit on what? **Mark Baum**: Every-fucking-thing. *** **Jared Vennett**: \[*over the phone*\] Is this America's angriest hedge fund? **Vinnie Daniel**: All right, listen. I got one last question for you: How are you fucking us? **Jared Vennett**: There's a nicer way to say that, Vinnie. **Vinnie Daniel**: I'm serious. We'll buy your swaps, but only if you say how you're fucking us. **Jared Vennett**: I'm not fucking you, Vinnie. I'm kissing you. I'm looking deep into your eyes as I make sweet love to you, Vinnie. I'm handing you the deal of the century on a fucking platter. What do I get out of it? Easy. I got a \$20-million-a-month negative carry. I got bosses trying to pull the plug because they think I'm out of my fucking mind, alright? We make this trade, those problems aren't so big anymore. And sure, swaps are a dark market, so I set the price.Whatever price I want. And when you come for the payday, I'm gonna rip your eyes out, I'm gonna make a fortune. But the good news is, Vinnie, you're not gonna care because you're gonna make *so* much fucking money. That's what I get out of it. Want to know what you get out of it? You get the ice cream, the hot fudge, the bananas, and the nuts. Right now, I get the sprinkles, and, yeah, if this goes through, I get the cherry. But *you* get the sundae, Vinnie! You get the sundae\! **Vinnie Daniel**: Alright, I buy that. Thank you. **Jared Vennett**: You want me to make you a market? **Vinnie Daniel**: Yeah. We'll take \$50 million Garibaldi IV BBB. **Jared Vennett**: Sharpen your pencils. I'll get the paperwork ready. **Vinnie Daniel**: \[*sighs after hanging up the phone*\] Fuck you too. *** \[*Mark is talking to CDO manager Wing Chau in a Vegas restaurant; Vennett & Mark's team watch from a nearby table*\] **Jared Vennett**: Uh oh, your boss is about to explode. **Vinnie Daniel**: No, he's too curious to explode. **Mark Baum**: Hold on, hold on, say that again. CDO A has parts of CDO B and CDO B has parts CDO A, but then both get put inside CDO C? **Wing Chau**: Yep, and that one's called a CDO Squared - a CDO of a CDO. And then there are CDOs made up of the opposite side of the bet you made with swaps. We call them synthetic CDOs. **Mark Baum**: What did you just say? "Synthetic CDOs?" That is fucking crazy. **Wing Chau**: It's not, it's awesome\! **Jared Vennett**: Look at his face; he looks like the bad guy from *Dune*. **Mark Baum**: Alright, let's say you have...50 million in subprime loans. How much money could be out there betting on it through these synthetic CDOs and swaps? Right now, tonight?: **Wing Chau**: 50 million? A billion dollars. **Mark Baum**: *What??* **Jared Vennett**: \[*voiceover*\] If the mortgage bonds that Michael Burry discovered were the match... **Mark Baum**: How much bigger is the market for insuring mortgage bonds than actual mortgages? **Wing Chau**: About twenty times. **Jared Vennett**: \[*voiceover*\] If the mortgage bonds were the match, and the CDOs were the kerosene-soaked rags, then the synthetic CDO was the atomic bomb with a drunk president holding his finger over the button. It was at that moment, in that dumb restaurant with that stupid look on his face, that Mark Baum realized the whole world economy might collapse. *** **Mark Baum**: *\[After his conversation with Wing Chau\]* Short everything that man has touched. I want another half-billion in swaps by the end of the day. **Jared Vennett**: Are you sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you. **Mark Baum**: Yeah. **Porter Collins**: Where are you going? **Mark Baum**: I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table. *** **Mark Baum**: *\[on the phone\]* Ok, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off. **Vinnie Daniel**: *\[Walks into the room\]* Gentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum...he says to 'fuck off'. *** **Mark Baum**: *\[Gets a call from Vennett\]* Jared? It's chaos down here, where're we? **Jared Vennett**: *\[Walks into the employee bathroom\]* "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." *\[Sees a co-worker next to him\]* Shane? SHANE?? *\[Shane leaves\]* Well, nobody's buying CDO's or mortgage bonds anymore, and everybody wants swaps. Swaps are now the most popular product on the street. **Mark Baum**: That's good for us. **Jared Vennett**: Yes and no. I heard from somebody who heard from somebody—*\[Another employee walks in\]* No, Alex, no. Sorry. *\[Alex turns around and leaves\]* Benny Kleager over at Morgan's taking on some heavy losses in the bond department. Your ship might be taking on water; might be time to get our lifejacket and get out. Oh, I'm jacked. I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE *TITS\!* **Mark Baum**: ...Good. **Jared Vennett**: Do you feel it? **Mark Baum**: No. *\[Hangs up\]* *** **Bruce Miller**: As some of you may know, Bear Stearns has just received a loan from JP Morgan. Of course, we're gonna have to wait and see how the markets react, but that should lay to rest any concerns about the bank's health. **Debate host**: Now, I take it you have no plans to sell your \$200 million in Bear stock? **Bruce Miller**: No, as a matter of fact, when we're done here, I'll probably go out and buy some more. *\[Crowd lightly chuckles\]* **Debate host**: For the opposing view, Mr. Baum. **Mark Baum**: I got to stand for this. *\[Takes the microphone and stands\]* Okay, hi. My firm's thesis is pretty simple. Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity that's on its way to decimating the world economy. **Bruce Miller**: How do you *really* feel? *\[Crowd laughs\]* **Mark Baum**: I'm glad you still have a sense of humor; I wouldn't if I were you. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem telling someone they're wrong... **Danny Moses**: *\[In the crowd, looking at Bear Stearns' stock price live on his Blackberry, showing Vinny and Porter; they speak in hushed whispers\]* (Bear Stearns is denying rumors of liquidity problems...Holy fuck, it's 39 now!) **Mark Baum**: ...is not so enjoyable. We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball. What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice or that fraud is mean. It's that, for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. **Danny Moses**: (Jesus, Bear at 37. Bear's at 37.) **Mark Baum**: Eventually, people get caught, things go south. **Vinny Daniel**: (Plummeting.) **Danny Moses**: (It's fucking plummeting, man.) **Mark Baum**: When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we're not doesn't make me feel alright and superior. It makes me feel...sad. **Danny Moses**: (Every time I fucking hit "refresh", it's dropping, man. Every time.) **Mark Baum**: And as much fun as it is to watch pompous, dumb Wall Streeters be wildly wrong, *\[To Miller\]* and you are wrong, sir, I just know, that at the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones that are going to have to pay for all this. Because they always, always do. **Porter Collins**: (It's 32. 32.) **Danny Moses**: (It's fucking tanked, man.) **Mark Baum**: That's my two cents, thank you. *\[Sits down\]* **Porter Collins**: (Let me drop a deuce on Deutsche). **Debate host**: Does our bull have a response? **Bruce Miller**: Only that, in the entire history of Wall Street, no investment bank has ever failed unless caught in criminal activities. So, yes, I stand by my Bear Stearns optimism. **Man in crowd**: Mr. Miller, I'm sorry, quick question. From the time you guys started talking, Bear Stearns stock has fallen more than 38%. *\[People in the crowd start murmuring in surprise\]* Would you still buy more? **Bruce Miller**: *\[Trying to be optimistic\]* Y-yeah, sure...of course I'd buy more. 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