I saw this movie a week ago, then took students on Friday. Here's my handout if anyone's interested in how the whole sub-prime mortgage crisis happened. There are current news links at the very very bottom.
Inside Job (Dir: Charles Ferguson, 2010, 108 min.)
A film exposing the truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. In a nutshell, progressive deregulation of the financial sector since the 1980s gave rise to an increasingly criminal industry, whose “innovations” have produced a succession of financial crises. Each crisis is worse than the last, yet few people are being sent to prison despite fraud that caused trillions of dollars in losses.
Inside Job (Dir: Charles Ferguson, 2010, 108 min.)
A film exposing the truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. In a nutshell, progressive deregulation of the financial sector since the 1980s gave rise to an increasingly criminal industry, whose “innovations” have produced a succession of financial crises. Each crisis is worse than the last, yet few people are being sent to prison despite fraud that caused trillions of dollars in losses.
