How to Understand the Economy

This American Life is by far my favorite podcast. It presents human interest stories in a fascinating and exciting way, and if I could be Ira Glass (the host), I would be in heaven. Every now and then they collaborate with writers from another podcast called Planet Money and National Public Radio and, in this podcast, they explain how the economic crisis began. Normally my brain inevitably shuts down when I hear phrases like "stock market" and "cash flow," but this podcast made me "get it" and kept my interest the whole time. This podcast helped me understand the economy more than any other medium at the time when it was first released in May 2008. I highly recommend listening to any other episode--they're all pretty good.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money