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  1. Tom Hark Preston Park

    [Film] The Big Short - a fine telling of the financial crisis story

    Anybody who enjoyed the film and/or the book could do a whole lot worse than check out Michael Lewis' 2011 follow-up 'Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World' where the author travels through Europe in the aftermath of the financial crash investigating how various countries (Iceland, Greece...
  2. Tom Hark Preston Park

    [Film] The Big Short - a fine telling of the financial crisis story

    In the end, from top to bottom, they were/are all just winging it. And all still firmly believe they were blameless. ****s.
  3. Tom Hark Preston Park

    [Film] The Big Short - a fine telling of the financial crisis story

    Didn't AIG, ManU sponsors at the time, end up holding much of the parcel when the music stopped?
  4. Tom Hark Preston Park

    [Film] The Big Short - a fine telling of the financial crisis story

    I was working on contract at RBS at the time of the ABN AMRO acquisition. Seems to me there was minimal due diligence because RBS were engaged in a full-on willy-waving contest with Barclays over the acquisition of that toxic debt-ridden bank. All sense went out the window right there.
  5. Tom Hark Preston Park

    [Film] The Big Short - a fine telling of the financial crisis story

    Didn't realise there was a film, but Michael Lewis' book is an excellent read. In fact all his books are.
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