Understand The Global Credit Crisis

Some of the best online explanations of why the financial world is currently going to hell.

Scott Lamb BuzzFeed, VP of International

Posted on September 23, 2008, at 4:06 p.m. ET

These are the clearest, cleanest descriptions I've found so far of what's going on with the financial crisis: how it started, how it got this bad, and what it might mean. Please add links you've found helpful.

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