I recently watched the HBO film Too Big to Fail and it was nothing short of amazing. This website is by no means geared toward rating movies, but HBO Films needs to be applauded for their remarkable job. This movie displays the troubling events of the financial meltdown of 2008 and focuses more closely on U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The star-driven cast allows viewers to connect the dots and reflect on the turbulence which happened not too long ago.

Less than two years ago this country faced the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. We have all heard this bold statement delivered to us by media broadcasters and even politicians themselves, but I fear that many young generations do not understand the true urgency that this country faced. Most of us understand that this crisis developed from various banks that participated in greedy and self-centered mandates to further inflate earnings, but many do not understand how this trickled across the board to many other industries. In my studies, I have found two dominant and prestigious companies that single-handedly have been models for how thousands of companies over decades that were almost taken down by this financial crisis.