Watching Notes - "Guarding Yourself"

Agustina 2022-10-16 05:56:11

1. It can be described as a prequel to Occupy Wall Street. The show time of BBC4 is not bad, and it is still hot. 2. The ideology of this film can be said to be an old refrain, regardless of left and right, distrust of big companies and elites, potential nostalgia for the past regional banks, greed leads to moral degeneration, Frank Capra said it long ago once again. 3. In fact, I think the retribution is still very fast. It took only 8 years from the soaring of derivatives trading in 2000 to the collapse of the bubble. In the long run, it can only be seen in an instant. Thinking about the development of civilization in "Tianyuan", it is difficult to escape the fate of final collapse, and even several ups and downs in thousands of years, such a thing as an economic crisis is the most normal phenomenon in ecology; just like creatures always have excessive reproduction. The same tendency, the myth that greed leads to destruction is not repeated again and again. It is a pity that human life is too short, and 8 years is painful enough. 4. What is really unreasonable? What is really unreasonable is that there is no supervision before the crisis, but after the crisis, it needs to be rescued, and the risk is imposed on all taxpayers; this is the background of the Tea Party movement. The source of the anger of the people. 5. The person from the Bank of China said it very well, when can he tell CCAV that the richer the government is, the more the people will lose.
Scenes worth remembering: 1. Before talking about the economic crisis in Iceland, let's start with a magnificent scenery. This is a paragraph version of "conflict and collision".

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  • Narrator: After the crisis, the financial industry, including the Financial Services Roundtable, worked harder than ever to fight reform. The financial sector employs 3,000 lobbyists, more than five for each member of Congress.

  • George W. Bush: You don't have to have a lousy home. The low-income home buyer can have just as nice a house as anybody else.