CBC News The Broadbent Institute is proposing a «new deal for young people» that
involves business relinquishing a fraction of the «
dead money» it is hoarding to offer jobs for...
The eccentrics extolled in the opening scene include Michael Burry (Christian Bale), a Northern California — based MD and
money manager who invents the credit default swap in the mid-Aughts, when the film's central action kicks off; Mark Baum (Steve Carell, also hideously coiffed), an obnoxious hedge fund manager whose backstory
involving a
dead - by - suicide brother somehow positions him as the film's most steadfast moral compass; and Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt), a onetime trader for Chase turned secular eschatologist who advises two young, aspiring operators, Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) and Charlie Geller (John Magaro), how to bet against Wall Street.