Screening Room: ‘The Big Short’

When thehousing market bubble started to implode back in 2007 and 2008, precipitating the latest financial crisis, it came asa surprise tomuch of the world. Michael Lewis’s bookThe Big Shorttellsthe story of the analysts who sawthe implosion comingand discoveredthat nobody wanted to hear about it. Adam McKay’s film adaptation is an awesomely angry screwball satire of the apocalyptic andshort-sighted stupidity that lead to the crisis.

The Big Shortopens in limited release today, then everywher...