去年年底，《10分钟让你全面了解当前世界金融危机(转贴)》一度是访问量最多的帖子之一。现在，有了另外一个10分钟的通俗易懂的视频：
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized distills the economic crisis into a short and simple story by giving it form. It is also argues that designers have the ability to see a complex situation, then turn around and communicate it to others. By giving graphic form to the credit crisis, it becomes comprehensible. Not only do economic activities take shape, but new relationships can emerge between these shapes.

The goal is to give form to the complex financial crisis to enhance the understanding of it. My interest in the project stems from 3 primary reasons: my simple desire to understand it, diagramming work I conducted at UNICEF, and my earlier motion design work. Initially, I researched printed news and spoke with several friends working in investment banks. However, I began turning more and more to audio and video sources for information. These sources contained an editor’s narrative which greatly enhanced my understanding, often by putting the crisis in some sort of larger context. But I still could not find a holistic or concise explanation.

fiasco n. 惨败, 可耻的下场
mortgage n. & v. 抵押
sub-prime mortgages n. 次级债
collateralized debt obligations n. 担保债务凭证
default n. & v. 违约, 不履行, 拖欠
credit default swaps n. 信用违约互换
pension funds n. 养老金基金
sovereign funds n. 主权基金
mutual funds n. 共同基金
broker n. 掮客, 经纪人
down payment n. 预付定金
surplus n. & adj. & v. 剩余, 过剩
leverage n. & v. 杠杆
tremendously adv. 可怕地, 非常地
commission n. 委托, 代理(权), 佣金
slice n. 薄片, 一份, 部分
cascade n. 小瀑布, 喷流 vi. 成瀑布落下 n. 层叠
tray n. 盘, 碟, 盘子
spill over 溢出
compensate v. 补偿
hedge funds n. 对冲基金
hot potato n. 困境
plummet v. 垂直落下