Steve Eisman isn't worried about the US debt, and says people talking about it are probably trying to replicate his own success in 2008.

The Big Short tells the story of the 2007 housing market crash and how a few key characters, who are based on real-life people, significantly profited from the financial crisis. Michael Burry ...

‘The Big Short’ was a star-studded film that showed how four traders made a fortune from the financial crash of 2008. Starring the likes of Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Brad ...

Where “The Big Short” hedges, “99 Homes” goes for broke. In “Homes,” unusual lengths are taken to give foreclosed Florida homeowners a sympathetic voice, even if at the great risk of ...

Of all the current century’s most cataclysmic world-historical events, the 2008 financial crisis is probably among the most poorly understood. Filmmakers looking to rectify this have already ...

The Big Short—based on Michael Lewis's best-selling book on the 2008 financial crisis—is both great and terrible. It's wonderful as a narrative of a financial mania.

Aside from the details, a big problem was that the U.S. homeownership rate had been stable at about 64 percent from 1968 (the year Fannie completed its transformation to a GSE) all the way till 1994.

TERRY GROSS, HOST: Director Adam McKay is best known for his work with Will Ferrell on such comedies as "Anchorman" and "Talladega Nights." With his new film, "The Big Short," he moves to a more ...

Initially, ”The Big Short” reads as a documentary narrated by Ryan Gosling’s (“Drive”) character Jared Vennett (which begs the question: why doesn’t Ryan Gosling narrate documentaries?).While the ...

The Big Short, Hollywood’s star-studded effort to explain the financial meltdown of 2008, was nominated this week for the Academy Award for Best Picture. And if there were an Oscar for Best ...

“The Big Short,” a dramedy about America’s recent financial crisis, won the top prize at the PGA Awards, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, on Saturday night.

“The Big Short” revolves around three sets of players: a money manager named Mark Baum (Steve Carell), a reclusive former banker named Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) and Michael Burry (Christian Bale ...