We are working hard to bring stories from the inside of these massive, troubled financial institutions.

We have contacts, but can always use more.

The conversations can be entirely off-the-record. That means we never tell anyone who we talked to or where they work.

We would love to hear from employees of hedge funds, investment banks, other banks, rating agencies, government regulators, et cetera.

We're not necessarily looking for controversial whistleblower stuff (though, we would be happy for that, too). We really just want help understanding how this crisis looks from the inside.

A brief, discrete conversation from someone who really knows helps inform our reporting tremendously.

If you ever screamed at the radio, or the newspaper, or a website and said: "those idiots. They don't know what it's really like." Well, this is your chance to clear things up.

Please send emails to planetmoney@npr.org.

That is a private email that only our team gets to access.