Towards the end of the hit 2015 film, The Big Short, Steve Carell, in a deeply compelling performance as Mark Baum, states: "We live in an era of fraud in America... For 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once... When the hell did we forget all that?" Now, obviously, we're big fans of fraud. We don't endorse the ignorant comments espoused by the film, but in fairness: the film was set in 2008. We hadn't shown up on the scene to prove that you can, in fact, get away with all sorts of fraudulent activity. You might think we had some reason or higher purpose in sharing this quote with you, but you'd be wrong. To tell the truth, we just like the movie and want to talk about it. We can't even say we're sharing this quote because of our Big Short Sale, because, despite the name, it has absolutely nothing to do with the film and we don't have any impending economic calamities that we intend to make a 20:1 profit on. Instead, the name simply reflects the facts that the sale is big and that Linus G. Sebastian is short.
