The first half or so is pretty decent. The second half goes a bit heavy on the hyperbole and conspiracy theories for my taste, and I'm not entirely convinced that it gets all the details right either.
If you want a more detailed exposition on how (US) banks work, I found this series very helpful myself.
The main shortcoming of the latter series is that it fails to show what happens when a banker sets out to deliberately scam people out of their stuff (which is a large part of what has been happening recently...).
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
