
Anyone who already understands the current economic disaster will find little new in "American Casino." But for the rest of us, this "Frontline"-esque documentary is at turns eye-opening (a former mortgage broker smilingly admits that he, and everyone he worked with, regularly altered unqualified and unwitting borrowers' financials in order to secure loans) and enraging (hedge investor Jeff Greene explains, from the deck of his Malibu home, how he has earned $500 million betting on the default of high-risk bonds).
The truth will out -- it may come a bit too late to help the victims, but it will out.
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