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One of the more useful 60 minutes I have spent lately is listening to Ira Glass' This American Life radio show from last Friday:
It has excellent interviews, fascinating insights and explains things like "credit default swaps" and the "commercial paper" markets very very well.
There are also some very good questions raised in this piece that are worth listening to....

http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365

365: Another Frightening Show About the Economy

Prologue.