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While this article identifies how credit is a major cause of the economic crisis, it goes one step further to describe the cause of the credit crisis, which is greed. This brings up an argument that many Americans played a part in causing the crisis because their greed was overwhelming to the market.

It's not a secret that political parties clash on what they believe truly caused the financial crisis, and this interview further demonstrates that. Politics certainly played a part in causing the crisis and we also learned that there may have been missed opportunities to prevent such a severe recession. This interview format is also one that I found interesting.

This author rephrases the question of what caused the economic crisis to be: what caused the housing bubble? This perspective is an interesting one because it confirms one of my suspicions that the state of the housing market was a huge contributor to the crisis.

The current economic crisis is one that has greatly affected the entire world, which is a fact often overlooked. I need to consider causes for the recession outside of American issues since the recession has impacted many other nations as well.