In January 2008, when Andrew Cockburn and his wife Leslie started making a documentary about the subprime mortgage crisis, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was above 13,000, the U.S. unemployment rate was under 5 percent and Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were still big names on Wall Street.
During the next 11 months, the Dow plunged 43 percent, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns collapsed and the U.S. economy fell into its worst slump since the Great Depression.
“It was a big story when we started, but it got even bigger as we were making the film,” Andrew Cockburn said.
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