As Oscars Approach, Real Life Big Short Player Steve Eisman Considers Reality

The hedge fund investor played by Steve Carell in The Big Short thinks his portrayal isn’t exactly 100%. “Eliminate my sense of humor and make me angry all the time, and that’s the portrayal,” Steve Eisman told the Globe and Mail in a rare interview. Eisman looks at the environment with banks today and sees reduced leverage, thinking his 2008 market call, predicting the failure of the U.S. banks, is less likely today than it was back then. This comes as movie director Adam McKay tells a Brookings Institute audience that banks nonetheless continue to control government to unprecedented and unhealthy extent,…