Date 23/12/2015 - News People
Ryan Gosling?s character in The Big Short, Jared Vennett, is a slick opportunist and Wall Street dealmaker who sees the potential in short-term gains by betting against the housing market ? knowing full well that the whole thing is built on a foundation of nothing (in fact, in one memorable scene, he used a Jenga block-stacking game to visualize what can happen). He?s also the movie?s narrator, sometimes speaking directly to the audience as he leads us down the rabbit hole of bizarro financial terms like ?tranche? and ?collateralized debt obligation.?
