Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

"Life in Ancient Rome"

foreclosure crisis

Wallace Shawn

Jimmy Carter's address about the waning American spirit

spokesmodel President Reagan

FDR's proposal of a "Second Bill of Rights"

himself as a boy on Wall Street

does himself no favors with his smug disingenuousness

at the National Archives, he tells the security guard posted by the Constitution, "I'm trying to see where it...says we have a capitalist economy."

tries to get in to see the chairman of General Motors

talks with his dad

"Dead Peasant policies"

financial meltdown

bank regulator Bill Black, who helped to uncover the '80s S&L scandal

heroes like Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and villains like Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson

stunt of showing up at banks with an armored car to take taxpayer money back to the US Treasury and/or asking to make citizen's arrests of bankers

sit-down strikes

lots of "What Would Jesus Do?" talk

satiric and emotion-stoking use of music (Carmina Burana for maximum dread), use of editing tricks and other propaganda devices