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Updated Apr 20, 2026
Updated Apr 20, 2026
Bem, acho que afinal me enganei To speak freely Sir, they pay here (being a reformado em Portugal after only 20 years of actual work) is substantially better. Adapted from Margin Call (2011) @al_antdp
Except Jeremy Irons never actually got ANY nominations, let alone ANY awards, for his magnificent performance in #MarginCall... ...because God forbid the stuffed shirts & luvvies would actually recognise something as grubby as a movie about finance!?!
This is arguably the greatest scene of all-time in any movie, it happens to be a finance movie: pic.x.com/7wSFYE1GYq
MARGIN CALL [2011] Directed by J.C. Chandor I saw a clip from this, it was Jeremy Irons giving a great speech in a conference room. I haven't seen it, it's about an investment bank's response over 24 hours during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. Have you seen it?
To embody the cold, calculating CEO in Margin Call (2011), Jeremy Irons studied interviews of top bankers from the 2008 crisis, aiming to capture their calm, almost inhuman composure. He said that “real power never yells.”
#Silver which has rallied sharply to multi-year highs could trigger collateral demands or forced unwinds Rumors of a "$17 BILLION #margincall on bullion banks" (including #UBS), with ripple effects to toxic equity swaps linked to stocks like $GME expiring in mid-January 2026.
Speculation around #UBS facing a #margincall on Monday, December 29, 2025, tying into a purported #silversqueeze and inherited $GME derivatives from the Credit Suisse acquisition. @UBS (as a major bullion bank) could be exposed to massive losses from short positions in #silver