Planet Money

Lydia has a photo on NPR’s Planet Money blog, which is featuring images from the financial crisis around the country, and where four intrepid souls are blogging and podcasting their hearts out. I learned of the new program just a few days earlier, in a curious flux of events: election day, walking down Broadway on my way to a conference, listening to an outstanding episode of This American Life by Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg, called “Another Frightening Show About the Economy.” It’s a follow-up to their extremely popular “Giant Pool of Money” show earlier this year about the sub-prime mortgage crisis. I raved about the original; the new ep is equally enthralling—and now they have their own podcast. A lot of people have hit my site since May searching for the first one, which was only available for free the week after it aired. Now Planet Money allows you to get your financial ethnography fix direct from the source. I guess you could say it’s a Win! Win! situation for everyone. Way to go Lyds.