Wer immer noch nicht verstanden hat, wie es zur Finanzkrise kommen konnte, sei folgender Zeit-Artikel ans Herz gelegt:
Wo ist das Geld geblieben?
Und wer kann schon behaupten, wirklich die Zusammenhänge begriffen zu haben. Auch nach der Lektüre dieses Dossiers.
Auf die wesentlichen Begriffe geht der Artikel leider nur kurz ein: die „Credit Default Swaps“ werden gerade mal [...]

Peter Schiff had several TV occurrences, where he warned about the up coming meltdown of the subprime-credit default swap-mortgage market and was quite right about the time and severeness of this event, while the other guys just laugh at him. To his credit he predicted several other financial crisis before (Dot.com bubble and Asian [...]

… naay, just because Henry Paulson is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and now leader of U.S. government economic bailout efforts of 2008 giving this very bank billions and billions… c’mon.
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Why should taxpayers stand up for the ruthless, selfish, solely profit oriented behavior of the big banks? You are right: they should NOT! Here is a video of CBS 60 min that explains how the financial crisis was created:
A Look At Wall Street’s Shadow Market
How Some Arcane Wall Street Financial Instruments Magnified Economic Crisis

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..eerrm by weight i mean money. Here is a nice infographic from the Wallstreet Journal showing the awesomeness of lossing of 1.8 Trillion dollar.