Capitalism a Love Story is a documentary about the global financial crisis. In it the writer, producer and director, Michael Moore takes on Goldman's Sachs to claim back funds, but the bank had by that point already repaid the stimulus money that it received from the Troubled Asset Relief program. Moore said he was not talking about the majority of people who took the money. Not all the $700 billion had been returned by the large financial intuitions, which included Goldman Sachs, AIG, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citibank, etc., despite their having profited from the financial crisis. They were bailed out by the government with $700 billion of taxpayer's money.

In this movie, Michael Moore is making a case against Capitalism, which he is claiming has failed. However, does this not make him a hypocrite? As a movie-making entrepreneur, is he not as Capitalist as they come? Capitalism has not failed him at least. He criticizes it even while he is profiting from it. He goes after the banks to try to get back the money for those people who lost their homes. The home-losers also had responsibility for what happened to them when their homes were foreclosed on by the banks. Furthermore, also at fault, it is asserted, were lenders who were making a profit from it and those real estate agents who were making a killing on foreclosures.

Michael Moore does not think free enterprise is the way to go. The blame, he claims, belongs to globalization, large corporations, and lraq war. A document from Citigroup is displayed that purports to show that the U.S. is a plutonomy where economic growth goes up, but there are 95% of the population at the bottom and 1% at the top of the pyramid.

Michael Moore interviews Stephen Moore who thinks that Capitalism is better than democracy. The Catholic Church, on the other hand believes in social justice for the poor. Moore interviews two Catholic priests who say that Capitalism is evil. Michael Moore was using his faith to justify his morality about Capitalism; he wants to move to a new system that will work for everyone - a system where there are worker cooperatives in companies, which are owned by the workers. Michael Moore also wants to ensure that money given to the banks by Congress to bail them out is paid back. Moreover, he wants Washington to stop favouring Wall Street. He claims the current political system is corporatism, which, in turn, is fascism where the unions and big business are getting paid by the government.