You’ve already taken the first step to greater understanding by reading my blog.
Okay, I guess that was a little self-serving, but after my blog there are other sources you should consider following for a more detailed discussion of topics than what you’ll get in your daily newspaper or newscast.
There are lots of sources of information, some of which are irritatingly inflammatory.
Here are the sites I go to, or more specifically, have set up as RSS feeds into my Google Reader.
I don’t agree with them all the time, and as a matter of fact, the same webpage will have articles from different points of view, but if you’re looking for an analysis of WHY or WHAT a news event might mean, then here are some of the sources I go to.
Every wondered what the 2008 Financial Crisis was all about? The Big Short by Michael Lewis is a good, gripping book that explains much of it. I highly recommend it.
But what are some of the lessons we can take from this crisis as outlined in the book?
That’s what this week’s video is about.
Take 4 minutes to watch/listen to it.