Day: May 17, 2023

The five topics explored are “Get rich quick”-schemes, credit cards, student loans, gambling, and retirement.

There is a strong US focus, but many of these issues are applicable to people around the world, so the series could be worth watching regardless.

It focuses on explaining the issues and the history behind them as well as demonstrating what researchers and policymakers are doing to counteract them.

The 2008 event still impacts all of us nowadays and has changed the world of banking forever.

For this reason, I’ve set out to watch a trilogy of movies covering this time period, in the hopes that they could help me understand why there was a crash, what happened, and what implications the downturn has for us today.

Today, I’ll share my experience of watching The Big Short, Inside Job, and Margin Call.

Raph will also add his perspective as someone who spent a few years on an ABS desk managing some of these Bonds.