The Big Short

udzielać porad inwestycyjnych

to dispense investment advice to grown-ups

The whole thing still strikes me as totally preposterous

Oczekiwałem, że czytelnicy będą przerażeni tym faktem.

I expected readers of the future would be appalled that

and promptly lost 250 milions.

have only vaguest idea

spurn the offer

rogue traders

along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-years-old to perform tasks of no obvious social utility.

there was no scandal or reversal

slash its dividend

referring to credit or loan arrangements for borrowers with a poor credit history, typically having unfavorable conditions such as high interest rates, subprime mortgage

express loudly a view that turned out to be seditious to the social order

I couldn't contain myself

This woman was crashing the stock market with her every utterance

There were a lot of pundits who claimed they predicted the catastrophe but a far shorter list of people who actually did.

They managed to finagle me a job.