The Giant Pool of Money

May 14th, 2008

We've been swamped with the demands of our business life the last week (a good thing) so posting has been sparse - we'll be back on the crest of the blogging wave by next week.

In the meantime, amuse yourselves with this excellent podcast from Chicago Public Radio on the housing/mortgage mess:

The Giant Pool of Money [this americanlife]
What does the housing crisis have to do with the collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.

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