The Meltdown Visualized (Break Out The Popcorn)

G2B reader Oy Polloi (is that you Pei?) just sent me this brilliant video visualizing the credit crisis. Yet another way to use simplicity to explain complex, systemic issues.

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For those of you seeing a longer, more journalistic narrative of the crisis, check out Inside the Meltdown, Frontline's hour-long report that aired earlier this week. It's a piece that explains the financial, political, and emotional forces that nearly brought down Wall Street.