The Flaw (2011)

  • NR
  • 01/21/2011 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 18m

What happens when the rich get richer?

Overview

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing expert Robert Shiller, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and economic historian Louis Hyman, as well as Wall Street insiders and victims of the crash including Ed Andrews - a former economics correspondent for The New York Times who found himself facing foreclosure - and Andrew Luan, once a bond trader at Deutsche Bank now running his own Wall Street tour guide business, the film presents an original and compelling account of the toxic combination of forces that nearly destroyed the world economy.

David Sington

Director

Cast

Robert Shiller's headshot

Robert Shiller

Self - Professor of Economics, Yale University
Robert Frank's headshot

Robert Frank

Self - Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Joseph Stiglitz's headshot

Joseph Stiglitz

Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Dan Ariely's headshot

Dan Ariely

Self - Professor of Behavioural Economics, Duke University

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