THE FLAW
Realizador DAVID SINGTON
Países United Kingdom
Duração 80 min
Sinopse
People all over the world are still struggling with the aftermath of the greatest financial crisis since the Wall Street Crash of 1929. We all know what the effects have been – but what exactly was the cause? Greedy bankers? Lax regulation? Well-meaning but foolish promotion of home-ownership? Ranging widely across the history of American capitalism in the twentieth century, its rigour laced with sardonic humour, and peopled with a cast of characters that spans Nobel-prize winning economists to distressed home owners, the New York Times financial correspondent on the brink of foreclosure to the Wall Street banker who feels the pain encoded in his spreadsheets, “The Flaw” argues that the roots of the crisis lie in the changing relationship between the rich and the rest in American society.
People all over the world are still struggling with the aftermath of the greatest financial crisis since the Wall Street Crash of 1929. We all know what the effects have been – but what exactly was the cause? Greedy bankers? Lax regulation? Well-meaning but foolish promotion of home-ownership? Ranging widely across the history of American capitalism in the twentieth century, its rigour laced with sardonic humour, and peopled with a cast of characters that spans Nobel-prize winning economists to distressed home owners, the New York Times financial correspondent on the brink of foreclosure to the Wall Street banker who feels the pain encoded in his spreadsheets, “The Flaw” argues that the roots of the crisis lie in the changing relationship between the rich and the rest in American society.