Goldman Sachs Is Above the Law and There's Nothing We Can Do About It.

[longship]

9. Rent the film "Too Big To Fail"

It's about the TARP bailout and the events leading up to it. It's yet another wonderful HBO produced docudrama. I read the book on which it's based twice (by Andrew Ross Sorkin).

The cast is great.

William Hurt as Hank Paulson.
Paul Giamotti as Ben Bernanke.
Billy Crudup as Tim Geithner.
Tony Shalhoub as John Mack (Morgan Stanley)
James Woods as Dick Fuld (Lehman Bros.)
Edward Asner!!!! As Warren Buffet.
Bill Pullman as Jaimie Dimon (JP Morgan/Chase)
Evan Handler as Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs)

There are many great supporting roles with Paulson's staff standing out.

This is a great flick, as is becoming increasingly apparent, from the HBO shop. It is told from the Paulson Treasury department's point of view, in other words when Bush was president. But the number of liberals in the cast should tell DUers that it is not Republican propaganda, and it isn't. Ed Asner plays Warren Buffett, for Christ sake.

Highly recommended. A great flick about what actually happened in 2008. It's a real education. It is not very kind to Paulson and staff being totally clueless to what is actually happening in spite of what is happening before their very eyes, the utter meltdown of the global economy.

Giamotti is great as Bernanke, as one would expect.

Here it is:

I also like Cynthia Nixon as Michelle Davis, Paulson's press person.

Enjoy.