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.
Writing
Explains derivatives without making you cry.
Direction
Sington turns economists into compelling narrators.
Director
David Sington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to a specific economic theory about income inequality creating bubbles — director Sington found the 'flaw' concept in Hyman's work and built the entire narrative around it.
Released in 2011, this predates Occupy Wall Street's mainstream moment by months — it essentially handed protesters their vocabulary before they had their tents.
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