RETHINKING THE BIG SHORT AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS (VIDEO):

Watch the whole thing. And for background, check out this remarkably prescient Winter of 2000 City Journal article titled “The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities.” Note the president who was in office when it was written, and it’s understandable why Hollywood would want to shift the blame to create a “decade of greed”-style Wall Street morality tale for the Bush era.