Business Matters has posted interviews
about the financial crisis. these interviews provide a good
overview of the origin of the crisis, plus some clues as to where we
are headed. The first interview is with
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts">Paul Craig
Roberts. Roberts was an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
in the Reagan Administration. The second interview is with
Ilargi, one of the pseudonymous authors of the blog,
href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/">The Automatic Earth.
They have different perspectives, but similar conclusions.
Basically, we're screwed.
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