A Review of the Financial Crisis

For those who want to learn some more about the roots of the financial markets crisis we are experiencing today, check out this editorial from Investors Business Daily. I think it's important to examine the past to prevent a similar crisis in the future.

'Crony' Capitalism Is Root Cause of Fannie and Freddie Troubles

"In the past couple of weeks, as the financial crisis has intensified, a new talking point has emerged from the Democrats in Congress: This is all a "crisis of capitalism," in socialist financier George Soros' phrase, and a failure to regulate our markets sufficiently."