Pictures work better than the endless stream of disjoint articles on how screwed the financial market is. Here’s my pick on various people’s explanation of how greed/stupidity got us where we are now. I’m a big believer in providing multiple ways of explaining things as a way of maximising the chance of understanding something, so here’s a few different takes.
Bit of a longer, but most comprehensive coverage of the videos/slides here. In ten minutes you’ll know what happened.
A power point slide show with stick figures gives another explanation here:
http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1
Nice clean, quick description of what’s going on.
The bounce of money (short intro by a news reader.. stick with it), so more of an “end result” type coverage rather than examining how we got here:
Oh and this one is worth mentioning:
How the unemployment statistics are worked out.
Might as well put something silly at the end:
Spamming, useless ablog. Why does it show up in my reader when I am not even the recipient?
Do not add this people, probably a fishing application for personal details.
To the developer: this is a useless blog at best, what you’ve done is made it a spamming useless application in addition.
I’d urge everyone to NOT add this and block it, additionally report it to the server in the hope it disappears.
Not really sure that this is referring to, I’ll go back to being an automated advertising bot and hope the cheque turns up.
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