Comments on: Inside Job

By: aquacalc

aquacalc — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:09:30 +0000

“We should re-open all these cases and…”
I whole-heartedly agree, but…”we” can’t because “they” call the shots. And, like the last 10 min of the movie demonstrated with Barack’s choices for his key economic posts, no matter whom “we” elect, we soon find out that we elected one of “them”.

By: jleaves

jleaves — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:57:48 +0000

What this movie has shown me is that our elected officals help this happened and so this is why most everyone got off scott free. We should re-open all these cases and make the Bank money wizards and stock market wizards pay back to us what they stoled and it would sure help our economy because this is big money. Oh yes they need to put several elected officals in jail along with the bankers.

By: M.LaFarge

M.LaFarge — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:17:55 +0000

I can’t but help think how closely these time resemble the days approaching the French Revolution. With all the greed and corruption people like Fredrik Mishkin, with his studdering lies and constantly blinking eyes, deny, along with Glenn Hubbard and Larry Summers, I am only waiting for someone to reinvent a new guillotine. Like the Red Queen says in “Alice In Wonderland,” . . . Off with their head!!!

By: ReformedRepub1

ReformedRepub1 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:32:03 +0000

There is no end to the individuals who could/should have been interviewed a film like this. This was a damn good start. BUT the point is just that… that there are so many bandits between DC and Wall Street that the actual enemy is the systemic corruption – the individuals will just change over time. We need ennforement of even existing laws – just stop the crime…

We need a new bumper sticker for the next election:
“It’s the CORUPPRION stupid”

By: T-man

T-man — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:43:33 +0000

“Isnt turning Larry Summers into the Richard Nixon of the financial crisis/scandals a bit of a reach? What’s the gotcha moment with Larry Summers??”

Summers didn’t engage in the mass murder of Cambodians and Vietnamese, but read his Wikipedia page. How many guys were not only fighting tooth and nail inside the US government to allow banks to do all the stuff that led to inside job, but have also written papers advocating that industrial nations dump their toxic waste in third world countries?

By: SonuK

SonuK — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:15:38 +0000

This movie does a good job presenting the storyline of the financial meltdown. It also does a good job of raising anger in the viewers. I wish it would have maybe mixed in some footage of how some people in this country or around the world for that matter are dealing with their poverty for an even greater emotional effect.

By: hsvkitty

hsvkitty — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:28:54 +0000

I am still hoping that the big guys have been served and as a courtesy, whilst they garner and peruse the paperwork, the SEC is too busy gleaning the dirty data they need to make the cases… to leak anything to the press…

Life needs to be more like the movies!! The bad guys shouldn’t get away with it!

By: lemarin

lemarin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:25:27 +0000

Rubin would be a much better Nixon. Isn’t it you who said he’s the Waldo of the financial crisis, appearing at every page?

By: mhmani

mhmani — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:59:39 +0000

As I read this, the futures are up 9 points on the day as fundamentals don’t matter anymore. Its all about QE, stimulus, and socialization of losses for reckless financial institutions. The plutocrats will always win. This will no doubt be an interesting movie that many will see but it won’t change anything. More turbo charged elitists will want to go and work on Wall Street to make the system more reckless and unstable.

By: Foppe

Foppe — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:59:49 +0000

removing leverage caps? Though Rubin would probably be more apt.

Anyway, Felix: one (minor?) point. Do you really think that what Taibbi is about is ‘calling people names’? Because if so, you’re certainly missing the point. Certainly Taibbi will attract a different audience, and perhaps he will even put off a few prisses who have still not learned to look past presentation style, but that hardly means that what he is saying is not relevant, or insightful.

By: corcoran310

corcoran310 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:24:32 +0000

Isnt turning Larry Summers into the Richard Nixon of the financial crisis/scandals a bit of a reach? What’s the gotcha moment with Larry Summers??

By: ottorock

ottorock — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:35:21 +0000

Doubt that’s enough taunting, Salmon. Go ‘double dog dare’ and you might get a result.