Inside Job

patwicklow

'Narrated by Matt Damon, The first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.' very good documentary about ice lands banks bit like the Irish ones.

http://vimeo.com/23086688

Fogmatic

You might also like a book about the bank/developer crash in Ireland, Breakfast With Anglo, by the developer Simon Kelly (son of the developer Paddy); pub. 2010, ISBN 978-1-844-88250-2. I found it very interesting, especially with having been in the building game once, in a business that also went bust (albeit on a far smaller scale!).
The way the most basic how-to-run-a-business stuff was ignored seems quite extraordinary. So do the updates in the newspapers, as more stuff emerges. (Like, a bank lending money for the purchase of shares in itself? To the tune of 26% of them?)

patwicklow

Fogmatic wrote: »

You might also like a book about the bank/developer crash in Ireland, Breakfast With Anglo, by the developer Simon Kelly (son of the developer Paddy); pub. 2010, ISBN 978-1-844-88250-2. I found it very interesting, especially with having been in the building game once, in a business that also went bust (albeit on a far smaller scale!).
The way the most basic how-to-run-a-business stuff was ignored seems quite extraordinary. So do the updates in the newspapers, as more stuff emerges. (Like, a bank lending money for the purchase of shares in itself? To the tune of 26% of them?)

Yes i have read that book also i knew most of these guys i used to do private dinners for Anglo and the private bankers/developers in the height of the boom if only i had a tape recorder there at them dinners lol

Toots

Not really relevant to the forum. Maybe try the Films forum instead.