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Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts) Sun May 20, 2012, 01:28 AM May 2012

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Anyone else seen the movie "Margin Call"? Seems eerily similar to JP Morgan's multi-billion...

...dollar fuckup. I was reading an article today about the $2 to possibly $5 Bln that JP Morgan lost from derivatives and from a poorly executed trading strategy approved by Jamie Dimon, himself.

Funny thing is, I just watched the movie "Margin Call" a few weeks ago and the plot of the movie is very, very similar.

Anyone else seen the movie?

PB

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Anyone else seen the movie "Margin Call"? Seems eerily similar to JP Morgan's multi-billion... (Original Post) Poll_Blind May 2012 OP

Margin Call was based on the events of 2008, Lehman Bros. n/t girl gone mad May 2012 #1

LOL, then it doesn't sound like that lot has learned much in the last 4 years... nt Poll_Blind May 2012 #3

exactly who was going to hold them accountable? Skittles May 2012 #7

Good movie. I always like Kevin Spacey. Could they have made the big boss brewens May 2012 #2

Jeremy Irons or the smarmy guy just under him? Jeremy Irons definitely has... Poll_Blind May 2012 #4

I own it. ZQ did great work in that. BlueIris May 2012 #5

Didn't see the movie. Did they get bail-outs? AnotherMcIntosh May 2012 #6

girl gone mad

(20,634 posts)

1. Margin Call was based on the events of 2008, Lehman Bros. n/t

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:37 AM

May 2012

Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)

3. LOL, then it doesn't sound like that lot has learned much in the last 4 years... nt

Reply to girl gone mad (Reply #1)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:45 AM

May 2012

PB

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

7. exactly who was going to hold them accountable?

Reply to Poll_Blind (Reply #3)

Sun May 20, 2012, 02:35 AM

May 2012

the same folk who held bush/cheney accountable?

brewens

(13,592 posts)

2. Good movie. I always like Kevin Spacey. Could they have made the big boss

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:39 AM

May 2012

look any more evil? Woulda fit right in an old school Dracula type movie.

Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)

4. Jeremy Irons or the smarmy guy just under him? Jeremy Irons definitely has...

Reply to brewens (Reply #2)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:46 AM

May 2012

...a touch of the Nosferatu about him, as my Gramma would say. <-- She's dead, I can attribute all sorts of stuff I make up to her "sayings"

PB

BlueIris

(29,135 posts)

5. I own it. ZQ did great work in that.

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:58 AM

May 2012

It really helped me understand how the whole mess began.

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)

6. Didn't see the movie. Did they get bail-outs?

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 01:59 AM

May 2012

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