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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.

This article is interesting because it identifies individuals and groups of people as the main cause of the economic crisis. The list provided of those at fault shows how irresponsible many groups of people were and how that all contributed to the economic crisis.

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.

Not only did this article suggest numerous causes for the economic crisis, but it reminded the reader that the explanations vary depending on viewpoints. Rarely does everyone come to a consensus about what truly caused the recesssion. During my research, I will need to remember how biases may impact the info I gather.

Like many other resources, this articles identifies the poor housing market as one of the main contributors to the economic crisis. However, the focus is that this recession is the longest since the Great Depression. I need to continue to research what factors are making this particular recession worse than so many of the others in the 1900s.

This working paper talks in great detail about subprime morgages. It also talks about loan performance.

This essay is one of the most technical resources I have found. Yet, it further supports that economic theories and concepts can help explain how we arrived at the current economic crisis. This essay also brings up another recession in the 90s that I can also reference.

This resource is the first I've found that also identifies causes of a recession from another era. Comparing and contrasting the current economic crisis to that of other time periods may allow me to pinpoint the differences and learn why the 2008 recession was so severe.