'Big Short 2.0': Deutsche Bank Reportedly Starts Shorting AI Stocks To Hedge Data-Center Funding Risks

For those who have been in the markets for more than a few years, the memory of Deutsche Bank's sales and trading desks quietly pitching CDS to clients to hedge the possibility of a housing-slowdown/mortgage-crisis/total-and-utter-collapse of the global financial system will still be fresh.

If you are too young, or were busy doing something more productive, this may help: The "Deutsche Bank guy" in The Big Short is Greg Lippmann, the real-life bond trader whose character, Jared Vennett, was played by Ryan Gosling in the film.