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Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
John Bird and John Fortune satirize the investment banking mindset in a mock interview about the subprime mortgage crisis. The sketch lampoons structured credit products and the banks' reassurances shortly before the crash.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a funny but accurate send-up of banker thinking, noting that comedians grasped the crisis before Lehman collapsed.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- kerviel88888
- Topic
- subprime crisis satire
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2008–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Oohh... This is one of my favourite documentary series of all time. Compulsive viewing. I'm not sure how it exposes anything about the current situation, but it sure underlines what the free-market economy means, how it came about and why it's so important for our …
ra on Hacker News · 2008-10
In The Commanding Heights - 6hr documentary on the global economy (2003)Well, at least comedians seemed to understand the crisis several months before Lehman crashed: "Subprime Banking Mess" [VIDEO] "John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview."
pdfernhout on Hacker News · 2018-09
In Post-crash economics: have we learnt nothing?
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