An absolute MUST LISTEN: This American Life discusses how the housing crisis arose. [View All]

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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355

355: The Giant Pool of Money

A special program about the housing crisis. We explain it all to you. 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.