ABSTRACT
The liquidity crisis in the US financial markets in 2008 was responsible for the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, and nearly brought about the collapse of the world banking system. The subsequent wave of demonstrations in Iceland, Greece and Spain, and Occupy Wall Street in the United States protested income inequality, the iniquities of the global financial system, and a perceived lack of accountability. Michael Moore’s sweeping polemic was anchored by affecting passages where the audience spends time with the casualties of risky financialization, exchanging the arcane workings of complex financial instruments for the arresting embodiment of financial risk – witnessing in the starkest terms what it means to have 'skin in the game'. Few individuals appear such self-evident documentary performers as Moore. Moore's possible options for sketching out the evidential consequences of this asserted ‘corporate take-over’ of America are myriad.
