“They weren’t stupid, they just didn’t care”: Review of The Big Short in light of the IFC’s decision on microfinance borrowers in Cambodia

While doing chores one hot afternoon in Phnom Penh, I decided to watch The Big Short, a film that chronicles the gross negligence that fueled the 2008 financial crisis. I scrubbed clothes in a basin and washed my dishes as an all-star cast of men yelled angrily into Blackberries between…