Then you realize that their vindication means the collapse of the American economy. Because these guys are smart, because they are antisocial and because they were laughed at by smug fools who believed the conventional wisdom, you identify with them, and you wait anxiously for their vindication.
We have been taught by generations of fiction to identify with characters who are outsiders and rebels.
You find yourself rooting for clever "outsiders and weirdos," as one of them puts it, who saw what nobody else wanted to see - that an immense structure of mortgage based securities was doomed to collapse because it rested on the backs of subprime borrowers who couldn't support the weight and should never have been loaned the money. Harry Knowles once wrote a review of Das Boot that said the movie was so well made that you'd find yourself rooting for Nazi sailors trying to sink American ships.
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