The Big Short Movie Analysis

Executive Summary Lehman Brothers were an investment bank involved in transactions worth billions of dollars and one of the most powerful investment banks in the world. Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 following bad investment in the sub-prime mortgage market and used bad accounting practices called Repo 105 transactions to try and cover up the bad assets. This report sets out the use of the fraud triangle when describing the actions which led to the collapse. The pressure applied on the bank, the opportunity due to the lack of regulation to carry out the actions and the ability of the bank to rationalise their decision making. It shows how the fraud was detected and the accounting practices that were used at the time, how the director

Failure of banks: The American banks at that time were small institution and they were relying on their own resources. When the stock market crashed many depositors went to the banks to take their money but the banks had fewer reserves to give to the depositors so they had to sell their asset. Moreover, the banks stopped giving more credits which ultimately led to low circulation of money in the economy. This damaged the economy

With his bold but cautious and wisdom, by betting liquor may also buy stocks finally became a millionaire. But the poor are always poor, perennial habit, the idea is not mature enough, blindly worships money for a woman to waste his money, temporary success makes him extremely conceited, eventually led to the tragedy itself.Here we leave alone the Gatsby’s great, he is like a nouveau riche profit in the stock market, but did not use the money to do meaningful things, but to the pursuit of love in the name of it squandered. Which increased the stock market bubble, it also aroused discontent of other

It was a time of greed, corruption, and broken capitalism was common in America. Theodore Roosevelt didn't do it for himself. He did it for America. Why were robber baron's so bad to America's economy? Robber barons controlled an entire market, they stop competition from selling which didn't allow progression, took away businesses affecting

The 2007-2008 financial crisis was the culmination of events that lead to the demise of the US economy. In the film The Big Short, Michael Burry an investor from Scion Capital, notices that the housing market is very unstable and could crash atany time. He plans to short the housing market by purchasing credit default swaps. Credit default swaps were designed as safety net for banks, because of the mortgages they sold. When a homeowner gets a mortgage, the bank posses some risk that the homeowner might not pay their mortgage, so the banks looks to an insurance company to sell them a credit default swap.

Suddenly, investors realised that the companies they were investing in were hollow promises, and this loss of confidence led to all of the investors to start liquidating their shares, and this led to the crash. Now, when an investor has made money in the stock market, they tend to feel wealthier, and with the advent of a crash, they tend to tighten their purse strings. This led to a lot of people spending lesser money, which further perpetuated the misery of the crash. The people started referring to dot coms as dot bombs. As a result of the crash inquiries were made into matters by the securities exchange commission and findings shed light on the gross misuse of shareholders’ fund and this led to many CEOs and managers of companies being charged with fraud and tried in

Long time ago, the farmer were mistreated on the economic level. It was hard for them because they weren’t given bank loans very easily because of prejudice. They complained for the department of agriculture but they didn’t listen to them. Quoting from investor’s business daily: Before the mortgage crisis, attorney General Janet Reno accused banks of racism for failing to market mortgages to poor minorities with weak credit. Fear prosecution set off a stampede of risky inner-city lending that led, in part, to today’s record home foreclosures.

H. A. Goodman mentions his beliefs “The government is spreading millions of dollars to lock up people whose detentions serve no purpose.” There is so much hidden truth that are unknown because why would custom Customs and Border Protection want bad publicity? Immigrants are being punished for no real reason, these Americans with higher power think it’s okay to mistreat and harm these immigrants and either lie about it or hide what harm they

Another crime that goes unreported is fraud. People do not want to know someone swindled them out of money. A very popular incidence of fraud is online perpetrators that prey on older lonely women and swindle them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. This type of fraud, to me, is one of the worst because they take peoples entire retirement money and leave them broke and sometimes homeless which cost taxpayer 's money for them to

With growing insecurity in the country because of terrorist attacks from the notorious group Boko Haram, there is emphasis on the checking of identity cards of citizens but in most cases people with no identity cards are given green lights if they bribe. It is considered as a privilege and opportunity to enrich oneself when sent to checkpoint, officers bribe their commissioners so as to be sent out and this promotes hatred within the institution as the roads are valued more than the piecemeal they receive as salaries. Officers as well as citizens continuously exploit the corrupt system for their personal gain to the point that it has become almost acceptable. Studying corruption in the Russian health care service, Michelle Rivkin (2005:50) argues that unofficial payments for doctors that was formerly considered as an act of corruption has been used over time and transformed to the extent that it has become almost accepted. It is a way to avoid the institutions that are considered by the Russian people as ineffective and they see these payments as a moral obligation on the parts to compensate the doctors for their professionalism.

Little did anyone know, everything they did was gradually setting the country up for economic demise. Factories were producing more than people could purchase, therefore losing many materials and money. Plus the government was giving out loans that people couldn’t pay back, which gradually brought debt throughout the country. Political wrong-doings, unhealthily high productivity rates, unequal distribution of America’s assets; these were all things that seemed good at the time, but proved to be more bad than good as it led America into its darkest time: The great Depression. At the time of The Great Depression, the US president was Herbert Hoover.

And how are the journalists supposed to make money as well. They get it stolen anyways because taxes pretty much take all of their money. As soon as they get money and write more on paper products their money is taken away because of taxes. I just don’t believe why they made The Stamp Act a thing. They made people poor.

Second Paper The cause of The Great Depression was attributed to the sloppy, careless behavior of banks, who were being too speculative in the way that they were investing their assets while simultaneously buying new issues with the intention of reselling them to the public. Companies were being given questionable loans in order to stay afloat by the same banks who held a stock interest in them! The banks, in turn, would then advise their clients to invest in the same companies that were being propped up by the banks. Eventually, this cycle blurred the lines of what banking was truly intended to do, and when compounded with the amount of risk involved with this type of behavior, the marked crashed. In response to this development, congress began investigating what could be done in order to fix the current economic situation.

A housing bubble was created by banks liberally mortgaging out homes to anyone no matter their credit and bundling mortgages together and selling them to other banks. Because of how they were bundled their credit ratings never reflected the actual risk involved; this practice was unethical but profitable until the system collapsed in 2008 and caused massive losses for both banks and homeowners. The losses were so drastic that Congress voted to bail out several of the banks at the expense of the taxpayers, many of whom were unemployed and facing foreclosure. The economy today is still recovering as interest rates and unemployment continue to return to

During this period lots of people had lost their jobs, poor families had nothing to eat and to live off, country 's banks had failed. People were living off what they government gave them which wasn 't much. Herbert Hoover was the President at that time and his response to what was happening wasn 't so good. He believed that the economy goes through a cycle and that the government should let things run their course and eventually things would improve. As result of this many people thought that he wasn 't doing anything to help the country pass through the great depression, but on his last year as president he started to get more involved and try to help those who were suffering.