I have been meaning to get to these two links: They are the huge overviews of the Credit, Housing and Wall Street Crises via the NYT and the WSJ:
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Credit Crisis — The Essentials
NYT: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_crisis/index.html
The Financial Crisis
WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/wall-street-in-crisis.html
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