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I watched that movie a few times before I realized Jeremy Irons was prognosticating. I had thought he was admitting he had become blind to the future, which mad
by 1123581321 4y ago
I watched that movie a few times before I realized Jeremy Irons was prognosticating. I had thought he was admitting he had become blind to the future, which made his decisiveness in that meeting a bit frightening.
- dredmorbius 4y agoIt can be both. If your business is predicting and anticipating moves, and you find that you cannot predict or identify a clear likelihood, often your best bet is to sit out. Warren Buffett has rather famously sat out several rounds of tech bubbles because he couldn't make sense of them. In the case of Margin Call however another clear interpretation is that Irons is seeing that "the music stops playing", e.g., the game is over.