As promised, here’s a link: this one to NPR’s Planet Money.
It’s a really well-produced show that takes on economics issues in a way that even non-experts can understand.
They did a piece on the housing crisis for another show, This American Life. It’s a must-listen:
IF you say something like this is unbelievable what you are doing is only feeding the next catastrophe. We assume that the world today operates with some kind of principles that guide a society.However what took place is completely contrary to that and that idea has been overlooked to some degree.What follows is that we play this game now where we use the idea of principles to mask a fraud and thus perpetuates the actual scheme. A very interesting piece thanks for recommending it