Internet Resources on the Housing/Finanacial Crisis

• This American Life (radio show) episodes:
  
  1. 5/9/08: The Giant Pool of Money
     
     • Through that link, you can read a summary of the episode, download a transcript of it as a PDF or stream the audio to your computer -- or pay a dollar to download the audio, but who wants to do that?
  2. 10/3/08: Another Frightening Show About the Economy
     
     • For this episode, there's a summary, but you can only stream the audio or buy it-- no transcript to read available yet
  
  
• New York Times (newspaper) multimedia presentation:
  • The Debt Trap; videos, interactive charts, and newspaper articles about all the different people who are affected by debt and how they fall into it in the first place
  
  
• Washington Post (newspaper) slide show:
  • Anatomy of a Crisis; the slides are narrated, describing how the "Housing" crisis turned into the "Financial" crisis
  • Note: the narrator goes a little too fast if you're not already familiar with the events and the vocabulary he throws around