When I scrolled down and saw that derivatives were so large by an order of magnitude I was reminded of this awesome 2010 Oscar winning documentary that I only

When I scrolled down and saw that derivatives were so large by an order of magnitude I was reminded of this awesome 2010 Oscar winning documentary that I only watched a couple of weeks ago: Inside Job: https://archive.org/details/cpb20120505a https://archive.org/details/cpb20120505a It's about how US executives created the financial crisis back in 2008 and is pretty relevant here. I'd well recommend watching it...some of the information provided is uniquely depressing and terrifying.