{"id":5688,"date":"2008-05-13T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:19","slug":"the-giant-pool-of-money-explai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-giant-pool-of-money-explai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Pool of Money, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy far the best explanation I&#8217;ve heard of the Housing Mortage\/Credit Crisis is &#8212; improbably &#8212; a podcast from the motherlode of story-telling on NPR, This American Life. This podcast is a bit different from their usual slice-o-life stories in that they try to explain something extremely complex and abstract &#8212; but in personal stories. The episode is called <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.thisamericanlife.org\/podcast\/355.mp3\">The Giant Pool of Money<\/a> and it&#8217;s worth at least an hour of your time on your next commute. Hearing the agents all along the &#8220;chain&#8221; of events describe what they thinking in their own words is about 100 times better than reading about it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/ira-glass-on-showtimes-this-american-life.jpg\" height=\"381\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ira-Glass-On-Showtimes-This-American-Life\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far the best explanation I&#8217;ve heard of the Housing Mortage\/Credit Crisis is &#8212; improbably &#8212; a podcast from the motherlode of story-telling on NPR, This American Life. This podcast is a bit different from their usual slice-o-life stories in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-giant-pool-of-money-explai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}