Good Layman's guide to the financial crisis

[Rank amateur]

Which administration? This one? The one before? two or three before?

I'm refering to the one that thought it there was a supply of millions of mortgages that people couldn't afford and demand for millions of mortgages people couldn't afford that could possibly go wrong?

I suggest that government intervention thus far has done far more harm than good

If a bridge has too many supporting beams, there's nothing wrong with removing a few, but it's stupid to remove all the support.