this week's this american life episode, "bad bank" is another episode about the current economic crisis. i haven't listened to it yet, but considering just how good the last two TAL episodes about the economy were, it will probably be well worth listening to. "the giant pool of money" remains the best description of the current credit crisis i have found.
the new episode will only be available as a free MP3 download this week. after that you gotta pay 99 cents to download or you can listen to a free stream online. even if you're not going to get around to it until later, you might as well grab it when the "free download" button appears here (it hasn't appeared yet, it probably will tomorrow. if you subscribe to the podcast, it's already available. i'm downloading it now).
