The Giant Pool of Money is an outstanding radio documentary which explains, in 
large part, our current economic woes. If we have the chronology right, this episode of This American Life – now rebroadcast as “Return To The Giant Pool of Money” led to NPR’s creation of the blog Planet Money.
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Why is this subject relevant at Popular Logistics? Because widespread poverty – or its effects, fear, limits on health care, housing, and food – constitute disasters, whether caused by a hurricane, indusstrial accident or by failure.