Just watched the 2010 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary, Inside Job, which clocks in at just under two hours; pretty good, and pretty disgusting/funny how some of the academic big-shots squirmed on-camera (and, in one case, barked back), denying all culpability for the economic crash.
Haven't watched all the deleted scenes on the DVD yet; debating on running the movie through with the commentary track on and/or watching the "making of" featurette.
Movie opens with a brief summary of the collapse of Iceland's economy, but it's not a patch on Michael Lewis's longform piece in the April 2009 issue of Vanity Fair. (In an amusing tangent, one Icelandic woman Lewis interviewed brushes off Björk, saying that she can't sing and that a lot of Icelanders find her and her family a bit -- off.)
Because the movie is relatively old, it's rather depressing to watch it and reflect how little -- how very, very little -- has changed since then.
Robert Christgau wrote a round-robin review of several financial crisis books for Barnes & Noble at the end of 2011; you can read it on his blog.
Economic historian (and cheerleader for American imperialism) Niall Ferguson had a piece in the December 2008 Vanity Fair on Wall Street that I barely remember, but you can read it here.
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Haven't watched all the deleted scenes on the DVD yet; debating on running the movie through with the commentary track on and/or watching the "making of" featurette.
Movie opens with a brief summary of the collapse of Iceland's economy, but it's not a patch on Michael Lewis's longform piece in the April 2009 issue of Vanity Fair. (In an amusing tangent, one Icelandic woman Lewis interviewed brushes off Björk, saying that she can't sing and that a lot of Icelanders find her and her family a bit -- off.)
Because the movie is relatively old, it's rather depressing to watch it and reflect how little -- how very, very little -- has changed since then.
Robert Christgau wrote a round-robin review of several financial crisis books for Barnes & Noble at the end of 2011; you can read it on his blog.
Economic historian (and cheerleader for American imperialism) Niall Ferguson had a piece in the December 2008 Vanity Fair on Wall Street that I barely remember, but you can read it here.
Unfortunately, VF only lets you read some teaser paragraphs of Michael Lewis's piece on AIG (specifically, AIGFP) in their August 2009 issue, because it's been collected in a HarperCollins book of VF pieces on the crash.