Documentary

Inside Job

2010 · 2010

The regulatory and academic capture story the dramas leave out. It argues a position rather than reporting neutrally, so treat its conclusions as a case to test rather than a settled account.

• Crises and market history
• Incentives

1 idea from this documentary

• ArgumentCrises and market history

  The incentives ran through the ratings agencies and the academy, not only the banks

  Follow the incentives through every institution in the chain, including the ones that were supposed to be the check.

  When a conversation about a failure stops at the most visible actor, and when assessing any system where the checker is paid by the checked.