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1) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Provides an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost of over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
Publisher
Citizens United Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown--beginning with the narcissism of the 1960's, spreading like a virus through the self-indulgent 1990's and exploding across the world in the present economic cataclysm."--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate stocks hit rock bottom, Dick and Jane are left penniless and desperate. They decide to resort to petty thievery and this eventually gets them plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jarred Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charles Gellar and James Shipley,...
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Es 1982 y una gran crisis económica está golpeando México. La elegante, encantadora y perfecta Sofía, líder del grupo de amigas del club de tenis, se enfrenta a lo inimaginable: su caída social. Sofía intentará mantener las apariencias, pero su derrumbe además de ser inevitable, dará cuenta de qué es lo que se pierde cuando se pierde el...
Series
Publisher
DistriMax, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The Tequila Effect will take us to the hallway of the Mexican Stock Exchange and you will remember the names of the people involved in the real life events that dreadful December, on the so called "December Mistake"; the existence of millions in Mexico, forever was changed.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Inspired by former U.S. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's acknowledgment that he'd found a flaw in his model of how the world worked, The flaw looks at the forces underlying the credit bubble that caused the financial crash which nearly destroyed the world economy.
8) Margin call
Publisher
Lions Gate Films, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by a mass layoff, a thumb drive, and a rocket-scientist-cum-analyst...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The year is 2016, and America is on the verge of economic disaster. The greatest citizens are being targeted, and dark forces are working to bring about America's final days. A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her.
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