My love for both This American Life and NPR is boundless. But they insist on earning it anyway.

Working at BigAnonymous, I've read A LOT of material written by financial professionals attempting to explain the financial crisis. None of it holds a candle to This American Life and NPR's jaw-droppingly revelatory collaboration The Giant Pool of Money, which recently won a Peabody Award for its analysis of the housing collapse that started it all.