@katiecouric: Inside Job

Katie Couric interviews Charles Ferguson, writer and director of "Inside Job," a new documentary that explores the origins of the 2008 financial meltdown.

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[irishgeal1]

dont worry about muggers gangsters and burglers, worry about the bankers.

[craigenputtock]

Obama is as corrupt (if not more so) than Bush ever was. Hey, STUPID AMERICANS, your government is corrupt! Now get off your fat asses and DO something about it instead of "emailing and calling your congressman"---which has gotten you nowhere and never will get you anywhere. Revolution, or lose everything!

[farmboycarl]

Obama didn't grow up in a home or a neighborhood. He doesn't understand what our homes meant to us, and doesn't care that they'd been the center piece of most of American's financial planning for the last 100 years. He lived with his grandparents in a subsidized housing high rise in Hawaii, then bummed around college campuses before sponging off Michelle's parents in their house in Chicago. He has no financial experience, and he's lived a life insulated from the reality of the average American.

[thechild84]

Why did Obama appoint the people did? Could it possibly have anything to do with Goldman Sach's Citigroup and JPMorgan being top contributors to his campaign? Inside Job is a great film and Ferguson does a great job but he lets Obama off the hook here.

[jgcamp99]

Both parties D's & R's are in on it together as a little 1% club. Why else would there be a Clinton-Bush Haiti Relief Fund ? The last 25 years of President's are in bed together with their own off shore, non-profit, money laundering scheme.

[Sparky4Peace]

I was working in the real estate market in the late 1990's. The radio and television were filled with constant ads about "no money down" financing for homes. They made people feel like fools for not buying or utilizing their equity. I knew hundreds who mortgaged their homes, put the money in the stock market, and lost everything. I tried to help people make wise decisions, but there were no other jobs and all the engineers in town were either mortgage brokers or realtors. It was insane.

[laaxe]

Distract the masses hypnotizing flat-screens, sit-coms, Super Bowls, & keep'em fat with fast food, & minds, passified with pharmaceutical & illicit drugs, and you'll never see a meaningful coup, ever.

[KlausBioMadsen]

What an awkward interview.

[irnehp]

Great interview. Mr Ferguson makes very good arguments, speaks very clearly and right to the point, and Ms Couric asks the right questions. I like @katiecouric because, unlike the rest of the mainstream media, it is a show that goes deep into the issues and is willing to let people get their points across in a reasonable amount of time. Journalism today seems like useless and empty chatter, and this conceals political agendas, underlying intentions, greed, lies. We don't want that.

[JoyceTubeYou]

This is the major challenge for Occupy Wall Street. Everyone voting in General Assemblies at any Occupy event must see Charles Ferguson's "inside Job" to understand the urgent need for getting money and corruption out of our political system, and for insisting on regulation of banking. In fact it is dangerous to allow the banks to regulate themselves as it is to turn a child loose and on its own in a candy store.