Director: Jim BruceRun Time: 104 min.
Call Number: HG2563 .M665 2013
"The documentary is especially compelling when it explains how the easy-money policies embraced by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sowed the seeds for the financial collapse of 2008. In his early years as Fed chairman, Greenspan was admired as a monetary superhero who had engineered remarkable gains in the stock market through artificially low interest rates . . . Greenspan was brought before Congress after the dot com bubble burst. Instead of renouncing the easy money policies that had injured the economy, Greenspan displays apathy towards the stock market crash by essentially saying our economy had a great run, the bust was not terrible, so that wasn’t so bad … was it? Greenspan then blew a new bubble with housing prices. Its collapse (in the fall of 2008) was far more devastating . . . Perhaps the most compelling feature of this documentary is the exceptional coverage of the actions which led to the financial collapse in 2008."
—Jon Decker, Forbes
