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"This American Life": Giant Pool of Money wins Peabody

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:52:00 -0500

This fascinating, comprehensive look at how the housing crisis came about recently won a 2008 Peabody Award.

Carla Charraga

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:35:22 -0600

This was a great show! I highly recommended. It accurately portrays how we got into this mess in a very witty and amusing way.

Anais Prosaic

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:40:46 -0600

Great American journalism, great American progressism...
Thanks, from France...

Jack

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:04:34 -0500

This was a great show! I highly recommended.

shakila

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:06:48 -0500

This show is one of my best and most favorite of all.

It is just unique, insightful, fresh and current without being so technical. It is simply a gem of a storytelling, american and more.

Crys

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:22:02 -0500

I loved this one so much that I've listened to it over a half dozen times and recommended it to many. It really helped me understand things that I thought were out of my reach!

pedro diaz

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:30:59 -0500

this is the best explanetion of the big problem

Herbert Browne

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:30:14 -0600

I was reflecting on the year past with a friend... and realized that "The Giant Pool of Money" was the best media presentation that I could recall. I went searching this evening for the process of getting this series nominated for a Pulitzer. When I finally arrived for the first time at this website, I discovered that the series had been awarded a Peabody. Congratulations!

I still feel that, if there's a Pulitzer for "explanatory journalism" that this particular series deserves, Richly deserves that prize. Beyond simply defining terms, it provided bodies, outlooks, arcane levels of financial manipulation (& job categories), perhaps the only "on-the-ground" examination of people at the "bottom" of all this... as well as the intimation of those faceless wizard MBAs who herd that "giant pool of money" through the economic pastures, gates & corrals of the world's transnational financial machinations. Thank you for a great show! ^..^

Helen

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:40:43 -0600

Great show. Listening to this has given me confidence and greater understanding for how I am going to approach my dissertation which is on the credit crunch