Please watch the movie “Inside Job.” (You can rent this movie from Amazon for $3.99.)
Answer the following questions using course materials as necessary.
Your answers to all questions should be 3 to 5 pages total.
1. What in the film made you angriest? Which person/company in the film offended you the most?
2. Who is most to blame for the events depicted in the film (e.g., Republicans, Democrats, financial services companies, regulators)? Why?
3. Should someone go to jail for the behavior depicted in the film. Who? Why?
4. Should educational institutions have a policy regarding conflicts of interest? Why or why not?
5. In your opinion, what role (if any) should the government play in regulating the markets?
6. Relate two aspects of this film to white-collar crime research and theorizing from the course and readings.
7. What must be done, in your opinion, to prevent another economic meltdown of this magnitude or are such events “unavoidable?” Explain using course materials.
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Supplemental videos (not required) that may help you with the writing assignment.
PBS Frontline: Inside the Meltdown How the economy went so bad, so fast and what Bernanke and Paulson didn’t see, couldn’t stop and weren’t able to fix. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages//frontline/meltdown/view/
PBS Frontline: The Warning In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regular warned about derivatives’ dangers – and overnight became the enemy of some of the most powerful people in Washington. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages//frontline/meltdown/view/
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