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Essential Reading on the Financial Crisis:

These sites are updated regularly:
Financial Times summary of Global Financial Crisis
New York Times NYTimes credit crisis essentials 
IRA   The IRA Bank Stress Index 
GT news The Credit Crisis Timeline

These readings are excellent summaries:

NewYorker Anatome of a Meltdown http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/01/081201fa_fact_cassidy

NY Times The reckoning http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/series/the_reckoning/index.html

Net capital rule 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03sec.html?pagewanted=2

Citibank story NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23citi.html 

And one of my favorites:Michael Lewis' article revealing how it all came about: http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/real-estate/2008/09/18/Michael-Lewis-Mansion




Best Review of the Financial Crisis man be found
in this video of a teach-in at Wharton in October
.More to Come

Escourtesy of Tom Toles



How bad is it?

For the full table of losses and capital raised click this link source: Bloomberg

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www.theeconomist.com

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