mentalminx I'm a bit late to the party I know and have only just finished watching the 'Inside Job' 8 years on! Wowzers though. Utterly mind blowing content, research and analysis and narrated to perfection by Matt Damon. I'm no business brain but the way the financial crisis was clearly explained and illustrated made it brilliant to follow and even more shocking to absorb. Charles Ferguson and the whole team deserved their Academy Award, as it's just a mesmerising, expertly told documentary. Superb!

m_mehdi_m62 Informative documentary about the recession and global economy as well as crises and bubbles. This documentary is an eye opener to see how economy works in large scale and what is the government role on forming and controlling it.When economy of a nation is in jeopardy they majority within the society will pay the price and it take quite long time for nation to get back on it's feed as a whole. Every individual should know this stuff to some extend so they wouldn't fall pray of politics and bubbles.As they say history repeat itself over and over again and people would never learn...

Matty Blank It is sickening to watch this documentary. Not because it is poorly made - it's actually quite good - but because of the corruption it exposes. Wall Street has gone unchecked for long enough. Though there may be few legal remedies currently available - big banks simply have too much money to protect them - bringing the issues to light is incredibly important. That is why we need documentaries like these. The public needs the truth.Never forget what happened in 2008.

Lee Eisenberg Charles Ferguson's Oscar-winning look at what caused the global financial meltdown is enough to chill anyone's bones. Narrated by Matt Damon, "Inside Job" shows how deregulation, the rise of derivatives, and the housing bubble coalesced to bring down the world economy. Sure enough, banks thought to be too big to fail did just that (too big to fail means too big to exist). Meanwhile, the executives spent millions on cocaine, prostitutes, and multiple houses. Worse still, large portions of academia endorsed the money-above-all mindset.Basically, the departments that were supposed to regulate Wall Street allowed it to run amok. As expected, Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and anyone else behind the crash declined to get interviewed for the documentary. I guess that if the documentary was missing anything, it could have noted that the unfunded wars in Afghanistan and Iraq caused the US national debt to skyrocket. Otherwise it's very well done. When Ferguson accepted his Oscar, he noted that not a single person behind the economic meltdown had faced prosecution. Five years later it's the same.Everyone should see this documentary.