Why the economy sucks
This podcast has a fantastic discussion as to why the US economy (and by proxy, most of the economies of the world) are crappy at the moment. It’s an explanation of how the American housing market went from “can’t lose investment” to “Forclosure City.” It’s lengthy, but worth a listen even for the first 20 minutes or so. Put it on your music player of choice and listen on the way to school/work.
Admittedly, it’s kind of depressing, but you’ll also probably WTF a few times at the atrocious business practice that was essentially a “keeping up with the Joneses” strategy. It’s worse than the dot com VC funding extravaganza.