“There are no good guys in this story, including me,” says Dan David, a financial investor that is now a whistleblower about American investments in Chinese companies. After the 2008 market crash, investors were looking for ways to make gains as quickly as possible. It is here that China entered into the picture. As China does not have the same oversights as America, Chinese companies entered the US stock market through reverse takeovers with American companies. The problem being, there is money being made off of products and companies that do not actually exist.

A must-see and urgent film from director Jed Rothstein, The China Hustle identifies and interviews the major players that reveal how China entered into the US stock markets. Broken down to be easily understood and followed (think The Big Short) this film sounds an urgent alarm to the next financial crisis that is on the horizon.