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AIN Blog: BARR and the Global Financial Crisis
One result of our Netflix subscription is that my wife and I are watching many films that we probably would have missed.

One result of our Netflix subscription is that my wife and I are watching many films that we probably would have missed. Two such films are Michael Ferguson’s “Inside Job,” which won the Academy Award for best documentary last year, and Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” with Michael Douglas reprising his role as Gordon Gekko from 1987’s “Wall Street,” also directed by Stone.

Both of the newer films revolve around the factors that brought the U.S. banking industry to the brink of failure in 2007 and fueled the subsequent Global Financial Crisis (or Credit Crunch), which we’re all still trying to claw ourselves out of four years later. I highly recommend “Inside Job.” As a popcorn drama, “Wall Street” is OK, but if you have time to see only one, watch “Inside Job.”