Too Big to Fail

with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Billy Crudup and James Woods
in Movies, TV & Theater, Business, Books
on Monday, May 23, 2011 * * * * *

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HBO's Too Big to Fail with writer Andrew Ross Sorkin and actors Billy Crudup & James Woods

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    1. SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/14/2012 04:00 AM Report

      This movie misses an important backdrop: HURRICANE IKE!!!

      For most of September of 2008 it filled the news.

      Landing in Galveston on September 13, 2008 it shut down the 4th largest city in America.

      Money was not flowing not only because of the crisis in the credit markets but also because the fourth largest city in America was shut down. It took weeks and in some cases months to restore electrical power.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/10/2012 10:51 PM Report

      The movie is great.

      We discussed it at dinner.

      The fixers (Paulson, Bernake, Geithner) put a band-aid on the boo-boo (frozen credit/no trust) after they infected it (made bigger banks).

      Who will get to clean up the bigger mess that will result?

      Will there be anything to clean up this time?

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/10/2012 10:43 PM Report

      HBO's "Too Big to Fail" is on HBO now. Saw it in Atlanta in a motel room.

      Ed Asner plays Warren.

      Warren comes off as Mr. Money who puts in billions to save the world but mostly our economy/banking system.

      Warren is portrayed as so wealthy he is like a country of cash, the Country Buffett.

      I guess we have to concentrate our wealth into the hands of someone like Warren so there is someone on the sidelines to save the country when our government fails so miserably.

      Thanks for saving us Warren! Please help make sure it doesn't happen again.

    4. vongleichent  02/24/2012 04:19 PM Report

      Unfortunately there are institutions that are to big to fail. This is why we need to break them up. Our the same scenario is going to happen again.

    5. b29349  06/28/2011 05:32 AM Report

      Only God can stop - TOO BIG TO FAIL. as long as the oil flows goods will move enough to maintain the current trade routes. These Planetary Drone Bees only provide Royal Jelly to the Queens at the top. They need to be united out to businesses that can be "bankrupted" like captialist businesses are structured for - pre 1864. Corporations take non - shareholders out of the Global Closed Looped Internet System formed through Transactions (Cashflow), not definition of,percent of Market Monopolies. PS - Worse CR even - Andrew Sorkin and CR were polite to these loud rambling actors.

    6. Christopher  06/26/2011 10:21 PM Report

      Was a great movie, one of the best of HBO. What a cast and a well told story.

    7. NeilMacCallister  05/29/2011 02:22 PM Report

      'Too Big To Fail' ..Now in a theater near you!

      -"WITNESS the intrigues, the betrayals, the crocodile tears of electioning politicians!"

      -"ABSORB the grandeur of the Yachts, the Islands, the Limousines!"

      -"FEEL the anger of the PERS Retirees, ..LISTEN IN on the SHOUTDOWNS!!"

      (Any similarity to persons living or dead is unintentional. Rated PG for depictions of emotion. Please buy the book, the bailouts, and the popcorn.)

    8. IRISH  05/25/2011 04:36 PM Report

      Some person said not long past that "success has many fathers but failure is an orphan". There are many failures in US society and institutions politically and economically and the next fiasco will truly tear apart the US because nothing at the core was done to reduce the potential risks in the financial markets. There was criminality and fraud and no one behind bars for life.

    9. robdverity  05/24/2011 05:31 PM Report

      All the movies, books, media wont overcome the plutocracy started with Bush, carried on by Obama. The bailout money should have gone to all BUT the too-big-to-fail criminals. Mortgages in the hinterlands, sliced and tranched to shreds for CDOs etc may never be recouped.

      Indeed whom deserve to go to jail. Start with any banker receiving more than 100% of salary as a bonus. Class warfare is overdue.

    10. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/24/2011 02:44 PM Report

      By the way Charlie, you looked really healthy tonight. What ever you did over the weekend paid off. (The light reflection off that pink tie probably helped too.)

    11. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/24/2011 02:41 PM Report

      Yes, only fixed around the fringe--nothing fixed at the core.

      So gentleman, which one of the characters should go to jail?

    12. REMant  05/24/2011 11:21 AM Report

      This is I gather where being a novelist instead of a journalist pays off, except there's no way a few ppl caused this depression, unless they are Greenspan and Bernanke. What caused it was simply China and other developing economies eating our lunch. Not that I blame them, because instead of accepting the necessity of economic balance and dealing with it, we borrowed and printed and basically created a Ponzi scheme that blew up in our faces. And we are still doing it, which is why Wall St seems to be doing relatively well. At a lower level, but no less indicative of the attitude, there was an endeavor to insure everyone against loss, which was intensely stupid.