Articles Tagged Wall Street

REVIEW: Inside Job

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera) On the surface, Inside Job is concerned with the events and the aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC). But amidst the various interviews and cultural analysis, Charles Ferguson’s insightful documentary addresses a more fundamental issue of social concern: […]

REVIEW: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps opens with a voice-over explaining the Cambrian explosion; a period of rapid evolution that occurred around 530 million years ago. This, we’re led to believe, was the “mother of all bubbles”. There’s little doubt that for director Oliver Stone, the preface is intended as a parallel to a more recent […]