Crisis In The Housing Market
Planet Money's Toxic Asset Apparently Is Toxic
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Planet Money's Toxic Asset
A short film about the life and death of Toxie, Planet Money's toxic asset.
Planet Money
Toxie's Dead()
September 24, 2010 Planet Money's pet toxic asset died this week. She was killed by one of the worst housing busts in U.S. history. Watch the video.
Tracking Our Toxic Asset()
September 23, 2010 Planet Money is committed to following the financial crisis to the bitter end. And what better way to do that than to own a piece of it. We bought one of those things that no one wanted, one of those things that almost brought down the global economy: our very own toxic asset.
Planet Money
Before Toxic Assets Were Toxic()
September 17, 2010 Back in the day, Planet Money's pet toxic asset seemed like a benign way to help more people buy houses.
Planet Money
A Tiny Slice Of A $200 Million Mortgage Fraud()
July 23, 2010 Planet Money's Toxic Asset includes a tiny slice of a major mortgage fraud.
Planet Money
Inside Our Toxic Asset: An 81-Year-Old Man With A Dog Named Muffin()
July 23, 2010 We bought a toxic asset full of mortgages gone bad. Then we went to Florida to find some of the people behind the mortgages.
Seeking A Smoking Gun In A Toxic Asset()
April 16, 2010 A toxic asset like one purchased by NPR's Planet Money is the subject of a lawsuit. A New Jersey carpenters union invested $100,000 in a mortgage-backed bond now worth $5,000. It wants payback.
Toxic Assets Market Awaits Rebound()
March 19, 2010 During the peak of the housing market, the value of the mortgages that got stuffed into those complicated mortgage bonds known as toxic assets was more than $3 trillion. But now the market has stalled, in part because many sellers are waiting for the economy to improve.
We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die()
March 12, 2010 Remember those complicated bonds full of home mortgages? The ones that almost brought down the economy? A team of reporters with NPR's Planet Money used $1,000 of their own cash to buy a tiny piece of one — and plan to track it until it dies.
Toxic Asset Introduction
Video: Toxic Assets Introduction
