Professor Elam

Monday Sept 23 2013

Ruben Medrano submits this great idea for the blog.  Hmm, is there a way to make this a seminar topic for campus?

The September 16-22 Bloomberg Businessweek offers a great article on the 2008 financial crisis that takes an exceptional view by providing a documentary movie which started streaming on Netflix just last week. It is called (as is the article) Hank: Five Years From the Brink. The story and movie are based on the happenings of former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.

At first I thought it would be just another of the many movies portraying the 2008 financial crisis, just as the movie Too Big To Fail (2011) viewed at one of our Saturday movies. This however is not only based on Mr. Paulson but he himself is the focal point answering questions and providing most of the narration. The movie can be found by searching Netflix by its title.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-09/hank-five-years-from-the-brink/

Ruben Medrano, Sr.