Inside Job (1:48) 2010

Inside Job is a Charles Ferguson's Oscar nominated documentary which deals with the worldwide global crisis of 2008.  The documentary, divided into five parts, is a very comprehensive look at the causes of the financial crisis, the crisis itself, and its aftermath. Very honestly, I quickly got lost in the discussions about derivatives marketing, subprime lending and other marketing terms. What I quickly understood is that the rich got richer and the ordinary person got screwed because corruption and greed pays well.  Two other important points that I understand is that we are tied to a global economy, unloading stones into a pond, causes ripples throughout the world. The other point that is very clear to me is that the power brokers who masterminded the collapse got away pretty much unscathed. Maybe keeping savings under a mattress is not such a bad way to go.