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Inside Job
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Matt Damon narrates Oscar-winning, exhaustive, anger-inducing, educational, thought-provoking, 2010 documentary, which is divided into three segments (Part 1:How We Got There, Part 2: The Bubble, and Part 3: The Crisis), that begins by examining the financial meltdown in Iceland in 2008, which was triggered by the governmental deregulation of three banks and their subsequent collapse after borrowing $5 billion over a 5-year period and the tripling of unemployment in 6 months, and continues with dissecting the global financial crisis in 2008, which led to more than 6 billion foreclosures by 2010, countless loss of jobs, and a $20-trillion price tag, through primarily candid interviews with financial experts, including Icelandic economic professor Gylfi Zolga, writer Andri Magnason, Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman, former Moody's rating Agency Managing Director Jerome Fons, former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin, MIT professor and Chief Economist Simon Johnson, bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller, factory worker Joanna Xu, Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, former AIG Director Martin Feldstein, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, financial editors Gillian Tett and Allan Sloane, Senior Economics Professor Nouriel Roubini, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, former Bush administration Chief Economic Advisor Glenn Hubbard, former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking Samuel Hayes, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Vocker, Center for Responsible Lending Director Eric Halperin, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Law and Finance Professor Frank Partnoy, Chief Economic Commentator Martin Wolf, Westwood Capital Managing Director Daniel Alpert, Harvard Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Professor Andrew Lo, former IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan, former Lehman Brothers Vice Chairman Jeffrey Lane, therapist Jonathan Alpert, elite prostitute Kristin Davies, authors Charles Morris who wrote "The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown" and Satyajet Das who wrote "Traders, Guns & Money," former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, former Greenlining Institute (a consumer advocacy group) Director Robert Gnaigda, Citigroup Chief Economist Willem Buiter, Financial Service Roundtable Chief Lobbyist Scott Talbot, and former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Deputy Director Michael Greenberger; after 2001, the financial sector was dominated by five investment banks (i.e., Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bears Stearn), financial conglomerates Citigroup and J.P. Morgan, three security insurance companies (i.e., AIG, MBIA, Ambac), and three rating agencies (Moody's, Fitch, and Standards and Poor's), which ultimately linked together home buyers, lenders, investment banks, and investors.

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2011
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