It took me nearly six months but I finally had a chance to watch The Big Short, the film based on the best-selling book by Michael Lewis that came out in late December 2015. The film, which was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, is about a small group of traders who foresaw and profited massively on the collapse of the housing and subprime credit market in 2007-08.