Basically, quot;The Big Shortquot; is a movie and a fictionalized recap of what happened in the securities market and banking sector when the...

Basically, "The Big Short" is a movie and a fictionalized recap of what happened in the securities market and banking sector when the subprime fiasco took place. It has been noted that when a similar kind of fraud took place with the Savings and Loan Crisis in the 1980's that a number of the bad actors were imprisoned.