<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There is also an HBO special by this name. will watch it...<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The special is based on the book. It's pretty good also, but of course with much less detail about the financial dirt than the book. If I was to have a complaint, it would be that Sorkin, and the film-makers, let Hank Paulson off too easily. It always struck me as suspect that he, as former head of Goldman, would let Lehman Brothers fail, who was Goldman`s biggest competitor. Sorkin explains that his motivation was to send a message that the government would not be bailing out Wall Street, but then was forced to anyway when AIG threatened to go under. Although Sorkin does not say this, the bailouts were in fact a good idea. Most of the T.A.R.P. money has been repaid. It kept the system from collapsing. And the whole mess cost less than 1% of the GDP, which is far less, percentage-wise, than the savings and loans fiasco under Reagan. </div>
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