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Credit Crisis Explained

September 25th, 2008 by Ryan Schenk in Quickthoughts

A couple weeks ago, Ben did a great job of explaining Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to us.

This episode of This American Life does a great job of explaining the greater “credit crisis” in excellent detail.

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Comment by Mykal |
2008-09-25 11:10:04

NPR is continuing the credit crisis with some more podcasts titled “Planet Money” you can find it on iTunes, sounds like it’s in the top 10 already.

Also This American Life did a follow up story on naked short selling during their Sep. 12 show.

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Comment by spatry |
2008-09-29 10:48:49

last week they had an interesting look at the the exact financial machinations that locked up last week causing Paulson to call for this ginormous bailout.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95099470 I get the impression a more detailed look will be in an upcoming TAL episode.

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