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This American Life is a public radio "magazine" show that does very accessible stories, typically of the human interest variety. However, they do dip into politics and world events occasionally, and usually do so fairly well. In May they did an excellent hour-long program on the mortgage crises called, The Giant Pool of Money. It was great for people like me who are looking for a good primer on the topic, but are generally ignorant of finance at these levels.

That was so popular, it spun off a podcast called Planet Money (blog) that runs roughly 20 minutes, several times a week. There are usually interviews with economists that break down a particular topic into easy to understand chunks.

This American Life has also done a follow-up episode called, Another Frightening Show About the Economy, which I have not yet heard, but it should be quite good.

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