Big Short Could Be A Steve Carell Breakout Film

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Mark Melin
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This Christmas the big screen will be rocked with a movie with a significant societal message that has nothing to do with religion. This is when Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, a mainstream film designed to entertain, will likely peel away more at the core causation for the 2008 financial crisis than most serious mainstream analysis on the topic. While the film will hit hard and delicate topics seldom addressed, there are likely a handful of points that won’t likely be addressed. One perspective left on the sidelines, I predict, will be the diligent, honest people inside banks, the…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.