The opening section of the
interview briefly discusses Volcker's part in the U.S. abandonment of the Bretton Woods gold standard, a
subject treated in much more depth in the book.
«It's not easy what he's going through, either,» Stone told reporters at the Busan International Film Festival today, asking for the same sympathy and compassion for Weinstein with which he typically
treats interview subjects like that old softie, Vladimir Putin.