The Big Short.

*Plutocrats deregulate finance, shadow banking industry leverages itself to the hilt and destroys the economy for a decade*

Tombot: see, the real moral of the story is we're all assholes and [flopson falls asleep reading another brick of sophomoric misanthropy]

sorry I was talking about the movie - are we still talking about the movie?

ah my bad, yah true the movie does ham it up a bit from that angle... blegh

the book is more of an account of how the thing was set off than the movie though -- even though it doesn't like follow the people around and interview them who concocted the cdos etc as much it does go into a lot more detail on the products, and how and why they were created. the db stuff in particular talks about the sell-side folks quite a bit.

did we ever get Big shortened?