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William_Dowling t1_j6jia4k wrote

Reply to comment by WroughtenPS2 in Bulls: Shut up and take my money!! by CrackCody

As someone who's spent decades in board rooms like that I thought the exact opposite. Clearly someone who'd spent shitloads of time in that environment and needed to explain it in simple terms to non-pros. The head of Risk, Sales, Trading, the CEO, all spot on.

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6jinte wrote

It was among the traders who should have understood risk, not talking about the CEO or the people who didn't necessarily have that expertise. I don't remember the exact moments from this movie, but one that always stands out for me as the epitome of Hollywood finance is in the Big Short when a trader doesn't know what a credit default swap is.

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adamzzz8 t1_j6jy32b wrote

But that's there just so the world famous chef Anthony Bourdain can explain it to the audience who actually have no idea what that is.

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