As much as any other producer in the modern movie AGE, Harvey Weinstein has been a subject of MEDIA FASCINATION. The grossness, the bullying, the unbridled exercising of personal power, the craven appetites, the awards and his good TASTE in films fed that fascination.
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by CHEAP credit, going BACK as far as 1982 (THOUGH subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), CAME to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing MONEY.