Folks I have been watching a wonderful, well put together series on Al Jazeera about the financial crisis of 2008. It really is riveting but you can only watch it on Al Jazeera. I just want to let people know about it who may be interested in watching. It's terrific.
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/meltdown/
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/meltdown/