You would never know that Goldman Sachs reportedly spent millions shorting the mortgage market in a similar manner to the traders in the movie, even while it was aggressively selling those same securities to clients. Though the “revolving door” between the public and private sectors is mentioned as a possible cause for regulatory inaction, the film doesn’t go into specifics about the very powerful government connections that some say saved Goldman Sachs from going the way of Lehman Brothers.
In a sense, the Washington-Wall Street binary is a false one. That is a distressing story Hollywood has yet to put on film.
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