The reason I call this video simplistic is that it skips over the very real involvement of the government in the mortgage markets that was a contributor to the current credit issues. With that caveat it’s an extremely well constructed simple overview of the general issues that can be understood by anyone.
Edit: The link to original site had become invalid so it was removed.
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