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‘The Big Short’ Breaks My Heart

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‘The Big Short’ Breaks My Heart

Watching it after GameStop’s market surge will break yours too. But will it break it enough?

Andrew Jazprose Hill
Feb 5, 2021
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‘The Big Short’ Breaks My Heart

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“The Big Short”   by   Junichi Yamashita   is licensed under   CC BY-SA 2.0  . Graphic by @jazprose.
“The Big Short” by Junichi Yamashita is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Graphic by @jazprose.

I watched The Big Short again after hearing about the GameStop frenzy. How amateur investors on Reddit and Robinhood drove up the company’s stock price and made a killing in the stock market — by outsmarting professional short-sellers at the big hedge funds. Only to see their gains plummet within a week.

The movie broke my heart when I saw it the first time in 2015. Last weekend, it broke my heart again.

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