Henry Carter Hull

How Main Street was hit by-and might recover from-the financial crisis, by The New York Times's national economics correspondent When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. The New York Times national economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman takes us behind the headlines and exposes how the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble perverted America's economy....

Argues that the financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by Wall Street but was a result of increasing wealth and income in the upper class while the middle and lower classes fell into debt in order to maintain a decent standard of living.

Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.