Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Mortgage Meltdown, Demystified

So I know that the mortgage crisis has something to do with people getting loans they shouldn't have gotten, to buy houses that they couldn't afford. But I didn't really get it.

Which is why I really appreciated last week's espisode of This American Life. It's like Mortgage-Backed Securities for Dummies. It starts at the beginning and explains step by step how this all happened. Highly recommended.

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