[Rummyfan]

...A senior trader, played by Paul Bettany, gives a speech justifying the firm’s legerdemain in the housing market. At one point he says (slightly edited),

People want to live like this in their cars and big f—- houses they can’t even pay for. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is because we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really f—- fair really f—- quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do, but they don’t. They want what we have to give them but they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from.

Applying this speech to the current situation: since the end of World War II, America has been underwriting the rest of the world, putting our hand on the scales in their favor.

The world is about to get really fair, very fast.

[ClearCase_guy]

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Yep.

[Noumenon]

Margin Call is one of the most beautifully executed and underrated films.