Matt Damon
character Narrator
William Ackman
character Himself - Hedge Fund Manager
Barack Obama
character Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush
character Himself (archive footage)
Jonathan Alpert
character Himself - Therapist
Christine Lagarde
character Herself - Finance Minister, France
Ann Curry
character Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Daniel Alpert
character Himself - Managing Director, Westwood Capital
Sigridur Benediktsdottir
character Herself - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament
Gylfi Zoega
character Himself - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland
Andri Snær Magnason
character Himself - Writer & Filmmaker
Paul Volcker
character Himself - Former Federal Reserve Chairman
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
character Himself - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
George Soros
character Himself - Chairman, Soros Fund Management
Barney Frank
character Himself - Chairman, Financial Services Committee
David McCormick
character Himself - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration
Scott Talbott
character Himself - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable
Andrew Sheng
character Himself - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Lee Hsien Loong
character Himself - Prime Minister, Singapore
Gillian Tett
character Herself - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times
Nouriel Roubini
character Himself - Professor, NYU Business School
R. Glenn Hubbard
character Himself - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration
Eliot Spitzer
character Himself - Former Governor, New York
Samuel Hayes
character Himself - Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Charles Morris
character Himself - Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Robert Gnaizda
character Himself - Former Director, Greenlining Institute
Willem Buiter
character Himself - Chief Economist, Citigroup
Andrew Lo
character Himself - Professor & Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Michael Greenberger
character Himself - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Satyajit Das
character Himself - Derivatives Consultant
Frank Partnoy
character Himself - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego
Eric Halperin
character Himself - Director, Center for Responsible Learning
Martin Wolf
character Himself - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
Kenneth Rogoff
character Himself - Professor of Economics, Harvard
Raghuram Rajan
character Himself - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
Lawrence McDonald
character Himself - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers
Harvey Miller
character Himself - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer
Kristin Davis
character Herself - Manhattan Madam
Allan Sloan
character Himself - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine
Jerome Fons
character Himself - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency
Frederic Mishkin
character Himself - Governor, Federal Reserve