1. Jay Friedman Drew Hallett Joyce Lee Jackie Maurno Allie White

3. Southern Region: 244,070

4. New England Region: 130,733

5. Florida Region: 129, 228

6. South Atlantic Region: 120,717

8. “I see some of these houses around here, and these are really crummy houses, selling for $300,000 or $400,000”

9. “Prices are heading toward a level ‘a lot farther beyond what people will pay, and I think [they’re] going to fall quite a bit.’”

10. “The Prospect of a Housing Bubble Floats Again” – Patrick Barta (Feb 8, 2002) Pg. A.2

11. Price-to-Earnings ratio is 1.6 when it’s usually 1.2

12. “High cost of housing … is being masked by extraordinarily low interest rates. An uptick in interest rates … could ‘cause the housing market to tip over.’”

14. Part III: May 29, 2008 “…capped a helter-skelter week — and presaged another 10 days of chaos. Interviews with more than two dozen executives and others directly involved show that Bear Stearns nearly died not once, but twice.” “Bear Stearns Chief Financial Officer Samuel Molinaro Jr. — tired and in the same suit he’d left home in 36 hours before…” “If there were hazards, moral and otherwise, luring in the deal, the future would have to sort them out.” Conclusions: May 30, 2008 “Bear Stearns Cos., a powerhouse on Wall Street for nearly nine decades, ceased to exist Thursday in a meeting that lasted 11 minutes.” “In doing so, they sealed a deal made in haste two months ago amid one of the most terrifying bank runs in history.”

16. Clear, 3000-word explanation of housing bubble origin and impact on economy

17. “MarketWatch: Surviving the Big, Scary ‘Mega-Bubble’ – Paul Farrell (Jul 17, 2005)

18. Addresses readers’ concerns by informing them of experts’ opinions about how to best prepare for potential bursting of bubble

20. “‘It’s over, man… unless we get bought out in the next 24 hours, it’s over,’ said a young man, in conversation with someone on his cellphone.

21. At a fast-food vendor across the street, people waiting to order food discussed the dive into Lehman’s share price this week

23. “Evergreen Money Market Fund had $309 million, or 1.9% of its assets, invested in Lehman credit” – Sponsors to back Some Lehman Exposure

25. “A run on money funds would have implications for corporations that depend on short-term funding such as commercial paper”

26. “If the funds don’t buy this paper, it could cause a cash crunch…”

28. “RIC Money Market fund had $403 million in exposure to Lehman credit… RTC Short Term Investment had $75 million in exposure.”

30. Shows significant drop in stock prices at Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG.

33. “its gambling debts are what taxpayers are paying off right now”

34. “From mid-September to the end of last year, AIG and the government paid $5.4 billion to Deutsche and $8.1 billion to Goldman under credit default swap contracts the insurer had written.”

36. December 12th, 2009 “The trades yielded Goldman less than $50 million in profits, which were mostly booked from 2004 to 2006, according to a person familiar with the matter. But they piled risks onto AIG's books, which later came to haunt the insurer and Goldman. The trades also gave Goldman a unique window into AIG's exposure to losses on securities linked to mortgages. When the federal government bailed out the insurer, Goldman avoided losses on its trades with AIG covering a total of $22 billion in assets.” “Goldman charged more than AIG for the protection, so it was able to pocket the difference, making millions while moving the default risks to AIG” “Goldman officials said the company believed it would have been fully protected had AIG been allowed to fail because of collateral it had amassed and the additional insurance it had bought against an AIG default. The auditor, however, questioned that conclusion. The report said Goldman would have had a difficult time selling the collateral and that the firm might have been unable to actually collect on the additional insurance.”

38. Gives a list of lessons learned from the crisis using hindsight that can be used to avoid a future crisis

39. Doesn’t blame a particular entity

40. “The End of Wall Street” Documentary

41. Three 10 minute parts: What Happened?, Why It Happened?, What Happens Next

42. Collection of WSJ reporters review crisis and give input on each major event

43. End documentary by sharing how they think the economy will progress

44. http://online.wsj.com/video/end-of-wall-street-why-it-happened/1DA45E1F-800B-408E-9523-D122F9680B5C.html

45. 4:50 – 5:50