Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands

Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by ProAm on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:25PM (#24075073)

isn't this the plot to the movie '2008'

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by loktarogar on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:44PM (#24075273)

if that's a movie, it's impossible to google

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by ProAm on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:41PM (#24075771)

I was just referencing the 2008 financial crisis where the US literally printed money to save businesses that should have failed.

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by loktarogar on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:01PM (#24075939)

yeah, I felt that that could have been the reference there, but the "movie" added onto the end just threw me right off

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by sp332 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:58PM (#24075405)

This is the only movie I could find with the literal title "2008": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10882960/ And Wikipedia doesn't have an article on any.

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by throwanem on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:01PM (#24075426)

Preeeeeetty sure that's a joke, likening the events of the previous big crash to a film.

Speaking of films about the previous big crash, you could try "Margin Call" if you want a very straight-faced (to say nothing of po-faced) take, or "The Big Short" if you prefer something that, while no more genuinely incisive, is at least willing to pretend as though it were.

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