Local Economist on The Big Short

The Big Short is a heist movie of sorts.Paramount PicturesAs I wrote last week, the most important film in the 2016 Oscar race is The Big Short. Why? Because it translates a very complicated but incredibly relevant subject (the derivatives market and how it crashed the global economy in 2008) into a language that mainstream America can understand.But how does the film hold up when scrutinized by an economist? Does it dilute its subject matter too much? Does it miss many important facts? Is it mi