It’s the economy, stupid
Economic systems are complex structures that are subject to their own laws. Neoliberal stock market transactions are no longer logically comprehensible and the bubble of speculative investing, promises of mega-profits by hedge funds and dotcom share price rises bursts in cyclical recurrence.
In Michael Berger - A Hysteria, Thomas Fürhapter portrays the Austrian investment banker who celebrated great success on Wall Street until his frauds were uncovered and he ended up on the FBI's "Most Wanted List". Places in his life are captured in calm images and a voice-over reports fragmentary personal details alongside the facts of the white-collar crime case. Jan Peter Hammers' The Anarchist Banker is based on a story by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa from 1922. Political theories and economic philosophies are debated in the setting of a television interview. The cynicism of the successful individual and the Darwinian harshness of the system have lost none of their topicality to this day and make your blood run cold.