This American Life producer Alex Blumberg teams up with NPR's Adam Davidson to tell the surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis. They talk to people who were actually working in the housing, banking, finance and mortgage industries, about what they thought during the boom times, and why the bust happened. And they explain that a lot of it has to do with the giant global pool of money.
Don’t miss this illuminating special about what precipitated the current housing and economic bust.