By Nic Lindh on Thursday, May 15, 2008 in politics · 1 min read
The Great Pool of Money
The brilliant This American Life program “The Great Pool of Money” is required listening for anybody looking to understand the credit crisis that grew out of the subprime mortgage meltdown.
This is why we have NPR.
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