Capitalism! What is it good for?

Written by Andrew Karpan

Jed Rothstein’s ‘The China Hustle’ struggles to uncover a fraud.

Greed is not good. The morality that underpins most movies relies on that principle. We expect punishment to come to those who spend too liberally. The current genre of financial fraud cinema is no exception: all earnest updates on Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, they focus on unsavory c…