The 2008 financial crisis

How a JPMorgan team invented credit default swaps that other banks then misused.

The 2008 crash, the eurozone crisis and the politics after as one connected story.

How financial innovation made markets more crisis-prone, from a risk manager.

Lehman Brothers' fall seen from its trading floor, and the warnings it ignored.

The last three days of Bear Stearns in March 2008, hour by hour.

The 2008 crisis grew from political and economic imbalances, not just banker greed.

Papers explaining the 2007 crisis as a run on the repo and securitisation system.

Lehman Brothers' internal culture and the relationships among its top executives.

The intellectual line from LTCM to the 2007 quant unwind.

How AIG's derivatives unit led the world's largest insurer to a $180 billion rescue.

The 2007 to 2008 crisis was a bank run like the panics of the 19th century.

Washington Mutual's rise and its 2008 collapse, the largest US bank failure.

The 2008 crisis, the policy response and the aftermath, for general readers.

The 2007 to 2012 crises through three central bankers: Bernanke, King and Trichet.

Why banks should fund themselves with far more equity, and why their objections fail.

County data showing household debt, not the banks, caused the Great Recession.

Evidence that the Fed could legally have saved Lehman Brothers in 2008.

How Deutsche Bank became an aggressive global investment bank, and what followed.

Closest coverage: Countrywide is a central thread in the trade-press account of the industry.

By the Daily Mail City editor; Northern Rock as the opening of the crisis.

The main dedicated narrative account.

Insider account by a Countrywide marketing executive; the one dedicated book.

Origination-floor reporting on the subprime lenders Countrywide competed against and copied.

The central bank as dealer of last resort in a market-based system.

Clearest lay explanation of the UK funding model

Insider memoir by a Lehman ETF trader.

How the swaps trade worked and why AIG sold it

Regulatory history explaining how a thrift-charter lender grew unsupervised.

Focused on accounting and Repo 105.

Insider account by a former Bear senior managing director.

Journalism written during four crises, from the 1987 crash to LTCM's collapse.

Bear Stearns's ten-day collapse in March 2008, and the firm's history before it.

The Federal Reserve under Bernanke in the 2008 crisis, August 2007 to spring 2009.

Northern Rock's failure from several angles: business model, funding and regulation.

How John Paulson's bet against subprime mortgages made $15 billion in 2007.

An insider's account of the forces that led to Lehman's collapse and what followed.

Inside the meetings of bankers and regulators during the 2008 financial crisis.

The 2008 crisis traced back 25 years to mortgage bonds, Fannie Mae and subprime.

Insider memoir: the Treasury Secretary's version of the same weeks.

The 2008 crisis from inside the FDIC, which closed failed banks and guarded deposits.

The Stuyvesant Town deal and the largest real estate loss on record.

The 2008 crisis and its aftermath, from inside the New York Fed and the Treasury.

The few investors who saw subprime mortgage bonds would fail, and bet against them.