the roamer<p>"This is Wall Street, Dr Burry. If you offer us free money, we are going to take it."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GreatLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatLines</span></a></p><p>Scene in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheBigShort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBigShort</span></a>. Goldman banker Lucy (played brilliantly by <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VanessaCloke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VanessaCloke</span></a>) making fun of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MichaelBurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelBurry</span></a>'s offer to trade against the 2007 housing bubble.</p><p>Burry was right, of course, and Lucy was wrong.</p><p>The irony: <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Goldman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goldman</span></a> made money regardless. They traded on both sides and extracted themselves out of their own mistakes, letting their clients take the hit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GlobalFinancialCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalFinancialCrisis</span></a></p>