a movie for banker-haters to relish

[frankthring]

Just seen the super-taut new thriller MARGIN CALL loosely based on the
first 24 hours of the Wall Street cash of 2008. It has no heroes, just lots
of corporate villains led by Jeremy Irons as a guy called Tuld and clearly
based on Richard Fuld, the boss of Lehman Brothers. If you want to see
how corporate giants, investment managers and bankers really think (and
the director`s dad used to work at Lehman Brothers before it crashed)
- then this is the movie for you ! I suggest Mr Slip gets his Porsche out
of the garage (or is it a Lada) and zips off to his local cinema to enjoy this
wonderfully tense movie about the world of high finance and the lowlife
men in suits who wallow with megabucks.

[Dave Wells]

That's a description of a porn company I know !

[spider]

Is he called Tuld or Turd?

[frankthring]

Mr Wells, I am shocked ! Can there be any villains in the porn world ? I
thought we were one big happy family. And do British porn barons drive
Porsches ? Or have they sold them by now.

[eroticartist]

Is it out on DVD? I must see it...

[Dave Wells]

The know the one I mean then !!

[max_tranmere]

A few things from Wikipedia:

STARTS

"In March 2008, Fuld appeared in Barron's list of the 30 best CEOs and was dubbed "Mr. Wall Street." However, the "Guerrilla" warfare would soon be over with the coming of the credit crisis, a force apparently more powerful than Wall Street. It is at this critical juncture that Fuld made the classic competitive error: underestimate the opponent and overestimate self. He received nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007. In 2007, Fuld was paid a total of $22,030,534, which included a base salary of $750,000, a cash bonus of $4,250,000, and stock grants of $16,877,365."

"In December 2008, Fuld was given the "Lex Overpaid CEO" and "thief" award of the Financial Times for having received $34m in 2007 and $40.5m in 2006, the last two years before his bank's failure.

"CNN named Fuld as one of the "Ten Most Wanted: Culprits of the Collapse" of the 2008 financial collapse in the United States; he was placed at number 9 on the list."

"On November 10, 2008 Fuld transferred his Florida mansion to his wife Kathleen for $100 in order to protect the house from potential legal actions against him. They had bought it four years earlier for $13.56 million."

ENDS

This guy truly is a c**t!!!

[frankthring]

Go see the movie Max, at Lehman Brothers he was known as "Count
Dracula", the greedy bloodsucker.