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The Big Short (2015) - Jared Vennett's Pitch to Front Point Partners (Jenga Blocks Scene) [HD 1080p]

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A scene from The Big Short in which Jared Vennett pitches credit default swaps on mortgage bonds to a hedge fund team, using a Jenga tower to illustrate collateralized debt obligations.

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Used as a quick visual explanation of how CDOs packaged risky mortgage debt.

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umvi · 2024-03 · Reference

PSA: you basically have to have seen the movie "The Big Short" to understand the analogy in the article. Or at least this scene: [VIDEO]

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adhesive_wombat · 2023-07 · Reference

The Big Short also has an earlier explanation of a non-synthetic CDO ("we just repackage it [low-quality risky debt] along with a bunch of other shit that didn't sell and put it into a CDO"): [VIDEO]

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ThisIsTheWay · 2021-02 · Joke / meme

Its a great scene, but this one takes the cake: [VIDEO] "That's a nice shirt, do they make it for men?" "Somehow you're like Dora the Explorer and you're the first person who has found this thing..."

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