Semafor talks with JC Chandor, who wrote the 2011 movie that gains new relevance and fans when markets shudder.

A respected financial company is downsizing, and one of the victims is the risk-management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the ...

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Or to fully quote the Chairman of the Board from Margin Call, "I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now. That's it. Nothing more. And standing here tonight ...

What happens behind these walls will change everything.