Inside Job
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
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A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Matt Damon
Narrator
William Ackman
Self - Hedge Fund Manager
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Jonathan Alpert
Self - Therapist
Christine Lagarde
Self - Finance Minister, France
Ann Curry
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Daniel Alpert
Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital
Sigridur Benediktsdottir
Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament
Gylfi Zoega
Self - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland
Andri Snær Magnason
Self - Writer & Filmmaker
Paul Volcker
Self - Former Federal Reserve Chairman
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Self - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
George Soros
Self - Chairman, Soros Fund Management
Barney Frank
Self - Chairman, Financial Services Committee
Scott Talbott
Self - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable
Andrew Sheng
Self - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Lee Hsien Loong
Self - Prime Minister, Singapore
Gillian Tett
Self - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times
Nouriel Roubini
Self - Professor, NYU Business School
R. Glenn Hubbard
Self - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration
Eliot Spitzer
Self - Former Governor, New York
Samuel Hayes
Self - Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Charles Morris
Self - Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Robert Gnaizda
Self - Former Director, Greenlining Institute
Willem Buiter
Self - Chief Economist, Citigroup
Andrew Lo
Self - Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Michael Greenberger
Himself - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Satyajit Das
Self - Derivatives Consultant
Frank Partnoy
Himself - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego
Eric Halperin
Self - Director, Center for Responsible Learning
Martin Wolf
Self - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
Kenneth Rogoff
Self - Professor of Economics, Harvard
Raghuram Rajan
Self - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
Lawrence McDonald
Self - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers
Harvey Miller
Self - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer
Kristin Davis
Self - Manhattan Madam
Allan Sloan
Self - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine
Jerome Fons
Self - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency
Frederic Mishkin
Self - Governor, Federal Reserve
David McCormick
Self - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration
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