'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008 which at a cost over $20 trillion caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders politicians journalists and academics the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics regulation and academia. It was made on location in the United States Iceland England France Singapore and China.