Talking Heads Take on the Financial Crisis

Here is an NPR station sponsoring a discussion on the financial crisis, specifically the July 2008 bank run at IndyMac and the panic at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The participants are:

• Barry Ritholz, a Wall Street analyst and blogger
  
• Thomas Donlan, a financial journalist at Barron's magazine
• Jakob S. Hacker, a political science professor at Yale (author of The Great Risk Shift)
• Peter Temin, a professor of Economics History at MIT