Margin Call (3/9) Movie CLIP - The Music Stops (2011) HD
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a reference scene when commenters see signs of impending economic or institutional trouble.
What it is
A clip from the 2011 film Margin Call in which an analyst explains to the firm's executive the dire state of their investment firm at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Cites jacknews · 2023-01 · on “Man worth $7.48B says Google should cut 28,000 more people after layoffs”
Indeed. [this video] It's a useful skill, but not worth 7.48B IMHO. They say hate the game, not the player. But then, the players have chosen this game, and often don't want it to change.
Cites anshumankmr · 2023-09 · on “Groundwater depletion in India may triple due to climate warming, study finds”
I live in Indiranagar and this is a sad reality of life here. These issues remind of this scene in Margin Call where two character talk about the impending 2008 crisis [this video] . There are many major issues in India's growth story, and I feel the music is gonna stop really soon.
Cites paganel · 2025-12 · on “Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas”
> Pure greed would have a strong incentive to understand what the market is actually demanding in order to maximize profits. Not necessarily, just look at this clip [1] from Margin Call , an excellent movie on the GFC. As Jeremy Irons is saying in that clip, the market (as usually understood in classical economy, with producers making things for clients/customers to purchase) is of no importance to today's market economy, almost all that matters, at the hundreds of billions - multi-trillion dollars-levels, is for your company "to play the music" as best as the other (necessarily very big) market participants, "nothing more, nothing less" (again, to quote Irons in that movie). There's nothing