Margin call

September 2008. The global economic crisis has already begun, but America does not yet know what catastrophe lies ahead, and only a group of top managers on Wall Street is looking for a recipe for salvation. It was the scariest hours of their lives.… An employee of one of the largest investment banks receives a stunning forecast using the latest market analysis program – stocks will fall, the market will collapse, the bank will lose everything. The next morning, he gets laid off and passes a flash drive with dangerous information to his former assistant before leaving. By evening, the bank's best analysts had checked these calculations and realized a terrible prospect: collapse was imminent. Now they face a choice: to begin an urgent stock dump, which will leave both large shareholders around the world and millions of ordinary investors with nothing – or to wait for developments, which is fraught with the loss of everything. We need to decide here and now. A lot of money and everyone's future are at stake. There is no limit to the risk this night.…