The Big Short, The Possible Protagonists Are Jared Vennet, Michael Burry, And Mark Baum

Bailey and J.T. about legal obligations of having to tell the police about any violence he see's in the Chicago projects. Continually, Venkatesh explains how he was informed by J.T. and Ms. Bailey on how to go about telling the police of this matter, and they gave him two options: go to jail, or rat on the gang. Later in the chapter Venkatesh discusses how he goes back to Robert Taylor and attempts to talk to C-Note but, C-Note shrugs him off. Although, Venkatesh writes that he's confused him and learns that C-Note and mostly everyone else at Robert Taylor are mad at him because he shared everyone's earnings with J.T. and Ms. Bailey. This was causing workers to lose money. However, in an attempt to regain peoples trust Venkatesh says that he continues his research and starts at a women's writing workshop. Throughout this workshop he learns different stories about the women of Robert Taylor's lives mostly about drunken, abusive boyfriends. One woman named Keisha actually stabbed her boyfriend and is fearful of his return. At the end of the chapter, Venkatesh explains how he goes to a council meeting held by Ms. Bailey and that many of the women are not happy about his appearance and yell at him. Finally, he realizes women think their daughters are sleeping with him during the writing workshop. The chapter ends with the realization that it's hard to think about any tenants that weren't mad at him. When analyzing this chapter, I thought that Venkatesh should have thought things through more before he told J.T. and Ms. Bailey how much the workers made. When Venkatesh made the writers workshop and the whole thing backfired, he should have just backed away for a while and let things blow over rather than to try and get more

The opportunity for power and competition seems to also be one of the largest intersecting parts of this whole debacle. In the film, I heard and saw that these bankers placed bets on the crash of all the loans. These bankers knowingly put countless families and individuals in

The author of the play/book ?Blackrock?, Nick Enright has written a very dramatic play towards today?s society. During the book he uses lots of techniques to make it relate to the audience, therefore making it more appealing to the readers. Friendship is also a major factor in the book, ?Blackrock?. Throughout this play, many different attitudes and values are brought up. It is very appealing towards my age bracket because of its relevancy. In the beginning, Jared is seen as a party animal and just one of the lads, this all starts to change after the incident the night of the partying Blackrock.

In the summer of 1776, the colonies were forever changed with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It made war with the British Empire official, pulling other colonies that had not begun to fight into the battle. The war brought much change for everyone associated with the colonies, leaving no one unaffected. The movie The Patriot, directed by Roland Emmerich, tells the story of one family, the Martins, in South Carolina and their role in the American Revolution and how they were affected throughout it. The film portrays the American Revolution primarily from the bias of the Pro-Revolutionists, illustrating the horrors of living through the war, while giving a more simplistic view of certain aspects of life in the colonies during that time period.

The far majority who invest in the stock market or a type of security hope that their investment escalates in value or price. However, others execute investments based on the opposite taking place; they hope that the price of the security declines. These investors are practicing short selling. Numerous renowned examples of short selling exist, one of which, the shorting of mortgage backed securities during the real estate bubble in 2008. A number of critics find short selling unethical while others feel it necessary to maintain a balance in the market.

Mortgage fraud is one of the costliest, yet seldom prosecuted crimes in the criminal world. CoreLogic estimates approximately $13 billion in fraud losses occurred in 2012, according to the latest available data in the 2012 Mortgage Fraud Trends Report (Gerding, 2013). While these numbers may seem high, the approximate $13 billion in losses is only a fraction of what it would be if every case were to be prosecuted. Mortgage fraud was also a major contributing factor towards a national, and nearly global economic collapse in 2008 when the United States economy saw the worst recession it has seen since the great depression. Anyone that has seen the films “99 homes” starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon or “The Big Short” starring Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling has seen a largely realistic glimpse of mortgage fraud and how devastating it can be.

“The Conspirator”directed by Robert Redford is a new historical drama.The basic ethical and political problems are the murder of the president and the simultaneous coordinated attempts on the lives of Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward which throw Washington into panic. After John Wilkes Booth is killed in a shootout with soldiers, his fellow plotters are arrested and tried, not by a jury of their peers but by a committee of officers.

Michael Lewis, The Big Short, film strategically provided three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing of 2008. The movie demonstrated how Wall Street, in a desperate search for profits, lunched “bonds” products with riskier mortgages. As a result, lenders were no longer interested in if a borrower could pay them back. In disbelieved, I noticed deceitful tactics that lenders used, throughout the movie, to convince Americans to take out mortgages they could not afford. Chronologically, Americans’ saving levels dropped while countries ' savings tripled. Once the Recession was in full effect, the US government rescued Wall Street, passing an unimaginably large bill, the bill we are still paying off. To most Americans’ surprise, nearly all of the rescue money went into Wall Street executives’ pockets.

The movie was an overview of the life of a quirky doctor, Michael Burry, who analyzed the mortgage practices and exposed the fraud of subprime mortgages that allowed people with shaky credit to borrow money. The movie also highlighted two other investors in Burry’s theory, Mark Baum’s group and Charlie Geller, that invested millions to gamble against home loans and short the market by buying credit defaults. All of these people made billions of dollars by betting against the economy, but all three groups realized they were betting for a failing economy. Their win was the world's loss, leading into something similar to the Great Depression of 1929 when millions lost their jobs and were no longer able to keep up with their mortgage.

The Big Short is based on a real life story that is about the 2008 financial crisis which was a result of housing bubble. Sadly, unethical choices made by bankers, financial institutions and rating agencies led to a crisis that hurt the World economy badly. The main ethical business dilemma is that many people were aware of the potential risks; however, they preferred to avoid the truth, and play stupid. There are many dilemmas throughout the movie that support this finding.

Jordan Belfort is the notorious 1990’s stockbroker who saw himself earning fifty million dollars a year operating a penny stock boiler room from his Stratton Oakmont, Inc. brokerage firm. Corrupted by drugs, money, and sex, he went from being an innocent twenty – two year old on the fringe of a new life to manipulating the system in his infamous “pump and dump” scheme. As a stock swindler, he would motivate his young brokers through insane presentations to rile them up as they defrauded investors with duplicitous stock sales. Toward the end of this debauchery tale he was convicted for securities fraud and money laundering for which he was sentenced to twenty – two months in prison as well as recompensing two – hundred million in

Money, sex, drugs, and greed-these four words are characterized and displayed profoundly throughout the movie Wolf of Wall Street. Based on a true story about the life of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), the movie is narrated and gives insight to the struggle, power, and addictions that surrounded Belfort’s life. Belfort was a stockbroker who learned his way as an entry-level worker on Wall Street before creating his own company Stratton Oakmont. Belfort quickly learned that success on Wall Street was a result of doing any means necessary, regardless if it was the truth or providing a false sense of hope. His main scam involved selling cheap stocks and inflating the prices so the brokers can sell at a high price. Although this was illegal, Belfort was so involved and addicted to money and drugs that his scamming ways were irrelevant.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction New York Times #1 bestseller. This text is published by W.W. Norton & Company and contains 320 pages. This is a book that focuses in on the 2008 financial crisis and the build up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000’s. The author channels in on the persons who saw the crisis coming that wanted to protect their investments or did not want to speak of the issue.

Another key event described in “The Big Short,” was when American International Group found a way to insure subprime mortgage loans while being able to bury these risks on its balance sheet. This was made possible by the fact that AIG was a triple-A-rated corporation with an enormous

This movie explains how crisis in 2008 happened in a financial institution in New York. The company exists since 137 years with John Tuld as the Chief Executive Officer. The leader of trading operation is Sam Rogers. He is in the company since 34 years.