Alex and his old friend Adam Davidson collaborated on the story that took up all of This American Life last weekend, and I’m just bursting with pride. I’ve never heard such a complicated situation—America’s mortgage crisis morphing into a global credit crisis—explained so clearly and with such remarkable focus on the human beings trapped in and responsible for and bewildered by what’s happening.
Listen. You will be enlightened and entertained; you don’t get a chance like that often.