"Why should a financial engineer be paid four times to 100 times more than a real engineer? A real engineer build bridges. A financial engineer build dreams. And, you know, when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it"

"You're gonna make an extra $2 million a year, or $10 million a year for putting your financial institution at risk. Someone else pays the bill, you don't. Would you make that bet? Most people on Wall Street said, 'Sure, I'd make that bet.'"

"Recently, neuroscientists have done experiments where they've taken individuals and put them into an MRI machine. And they have them play a game where the prize is money. And they noticed that when these subjects earn money, the part of the brain that gets stimulated is the same part that cocaine stimulates."

"You come to us today telling us "We're sorry. We won't do it again. Trust us". Well I have some people in my constituency that actually robbed some of your banks, and they say the same thing."

"Addressing Obama and, quote, 'regulatory reform' - my response, if it was one word, would be 'ha!' There's very little reform... It's a Wall Street government."

"I had a friend who was a bond trader at Merrill Lynch in the 1970s. He had a job as a train conductor at night, 'cause he had three kids and couldn't support them on what a bond trader made. By 1986, he was making millions of dollars, and thought it was because he was smart."

"Matt Damon as Self - Narrator (voice)"

"Gylfi Zoega as Self - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland"

"Andri Snær Magnasonas Self - Writer & Filmmaker"

"Sigridur Benediktsdottir as Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament"

"Paul Volcker as Self - Former Federal Reserve Chairman"

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn as Self - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund"

"George Soros as Self - Chairman, Soros Fund Management"

"Barney Frank as Self - Chairman, Financial Services Committee"

"David McCormick as Self - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration"

"Scott Talbott as Self - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable"

"Lee Hsien Loong as Self - Prime Minister, Singapore (as Hsien Loong Lee)"

"Christine Lagarde as Self - Finance Minister, France"

"Gillian Tett as Self - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times"

"Nouriel Roubini as Self - Professor, NYU Business School"

"R. Glenn Hubbard as Self - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration"

"Eliot Spitzer as Self - Former Governor, New York"

"Samuel Hayes as Self - Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School"

"Charles Morris as Self - Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown"

"Robert Gnaizda as Self - Former Director, Greenlining Institute"

"Willem Buiter as Self - Chief Economist, Citigroup"

"Andrew Lo as Self - Professor & Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering"

"Michael Greenberger as Self - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission"

"Satyajit Das as Self - Derivatives Consultant"

"Frank Partnoy as Self - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California, San Diego"

"Eric Halperin as Self - Director, Center for Responsible Learning"

"Martin Wolf as Self - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times"

"Kenneth Rogoff as Self - Professor of Economics, Harvard (as Prof. Ken Rogoff)"

"Daniel Alpert as Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital"

"Raghuram Rajan as Self - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund"

"Lawrence McDonald as Self - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers"

"Harvey Miller as Self - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer"

"Jeffrey Lane as Self - Vice Chairman, Lehman Brothers"

"Jonathan Alpert as Self - Therapist"

"Kristin Davis as Self - Manhattan Madam"

"Allan Sloan as Self - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine"

"William Ackman as Self - Hedge Fund Manager (as Bill Ackman)"

"Jerome Fons as Self - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency"

"Frederic Mishkin as Self - Governor, Federal Reserve"

"Simon Johnson as Self - Professor, MIT"

"Joanna Xu as Self - Former Factory Worker"

"Patrick Daniel as Self - Editor-in-Chief, Singapore Press Holdings"

"Columba Ramos as Self - Victim of Fraud"

"Eric Evanouskas as Self - Volunteer, Catholic Charities"

"Steven A. Stephen as Self - Former Construction Worker"