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Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail (2011)

Director: Curtis Hanson

I just watched this HBO premiere. It looks down on businessmen and it makes an appeal to pity for bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are portrayed as innocent bystanders charged with responsibility to clean up the mess of free enterprise. At one point, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are presented as not only very reasonable and moral, but as our literal saviors... (See the whole review)

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 8:45amSanction this postReply
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The one good line in the movie, the one that stood out for me, was when there was a discussion about nationalizing the banks, and someone -- I think it was Paulson -- said [paraphrased]:

Are you kidding? That is what Japan did and they ended up with a decade-long recession in the 1990's! Do you want that for America?
Ed


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