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Michael Moore Can Thank Goldman Sachs for "Capitalism"

The opening and closing credits to Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore's latest film, reveal an ironic twist. It turns out the movie was funded by some of the very companies it bashes, Ira Stoll notes at the Future of Capitalism.
 
Paramount Vantage, which co-produced the movie, is owned by Viacom, "on whose board sit none other than Sumner Redstone and former Bear Stearns executive Ace Greenberg, who aren't exactly socialists," Stoll writes.
 
And New York magazine reminds us that Capitalism executive producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein had Goldman Sachs raise $1 billion for their company.
 
At one point in the film, Moore arrives outside Goldman Sachs headquarters in a armored money-transport truck and demands that the bank return their profits to Americans. But "If Mr. Moore appreciates any of the irony here," Stoll writes, "he sure doesn't share it with viewers."

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2229560/?wpisrc=newsletter
 
 
How Goldman Backed Moore's 'Capitalism' Movie
http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2009/09/how-goldman-backed-moores-capitalism-movie

 

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