Just finished watching "Inside Job".

[dixiegrrrrl]

For anyone who wants/need a perfectly clear picture of why we are where we are, this is film to see.
Narrated by Matt Damon.
I would recommend it as a perfect gift, also.

[Dawson Leery]

1. A problem was being solved when Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers collapsed.

Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wachovia needed to go in the same direction. Let them go into government receivership as the banks did in Sweden in the early 90's.

[ejpoeta]

2. ooh! i am going to be watching that soon for sure.

[drokhole]

3. Got it in transit from Amazon, can't wait!

Should be here by Friday, this makes me that much more excited. Some other recent greats - The Tillman Story; The Corporation; America Betrayed; GasLand; War Made Easy; Casino Jack; Capitalism: A Love Story; and Food Inc.

[midnight]

4. I've already requested tickets for this movie, as my birthday gift, next week..

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Good birthday present, indeed.

Very watchable movie, explained in an easy to understand manner.

[Courtesy Flush]

6. It arrived from Netflix yesterday. Can't wait to watch.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. I just watched 'INSIDE JOB' on line no wonder it won

the academy award....... It also illustrates how little has changed in the American financial world, despite Obama's rhetoric. Rather than being held accountable for their role in the collapse, many of its architects remain in key positions of power. He goes from Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama

And each of them have kept these criminals in control of the system.

As Ferguson the maker of the film notes,

Wall Street has returned to normal with no federal prosecutions against any of the guilty. And one of the most poignant scenes in the film comes from Robert Gnaizda, the former head of the Greenlining Institute, a consumer lobbyist group who laughingly dismisses recent legislation to regulate banks with a simple 'Hah'.