STORY
THE CHINA HUSTLE begins in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis when we meet Dan David and a band of Wall Street outsiders. Detective-like investors working on the fringes of the financial world, they scour global markets for new opportunities. With the West in a tailspin, they turn to China, to what seems like a new gold rush. Chinese stock market indexes are doubling every year and the potential seems boundless.
There’s one problem, though: US investors can’t participate because they are barred from investing directly in Chinese markets. But this is America, and we always find a way. A few Wall Street operators create a novel solution by bringing hundreds of promising Chinese companies directly to U.S. stock markets. All of the sudden, Middle America can get in on the Chinese miracle, without leaving the comforting conf
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
Jed Rothstein
PRODUCED BY
Sarah Gibson and Ryan Suffern
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Ben Cosgrove, Jeff Cuban, Stacey Offman, Alex Gibney and Frank Marshall
CAST
Dan David, Matthew Wiechert, Carson Block, James Chanos, Soren Aandahl and Maj Soueidnn