Good Fun Friday

A round-up of articles, videos and graphs that may be worth looking at:

Videos:

"Breaking the Bank" (Frontline)

An hour-long documentary on Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch. It goes a little easy Ken Lewis, in my opinion, but then again my opinion is relatively uninformed.

Jonathan Jarvis' "The Crisis of Credit Visualized"

Eight months too late maybe, but even if might find a primer on the credit crisis a little redundant at this point, this is fantastically entertaining.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Videos Plus Graphs:

Brad Setser's "The Crisis Guide: The Global Economy," Chapter III (Council of Foreign Relations)

Not as exciting as the last video, but interactive graphs are always fun.

Articles:

Michael Lewis' "The Man Who Crashed the World" (Vanity Fair)

Crash Lewis Vf

Matt Taibbi's "The Great American Bubble Machine" (Rolling Stone)

The Great American Bubble Machine -Goldman-Sachs and the crash