The Great Credit Crisis. What is it? How and why did it happen? What events led us to this crisis? Who is responsible? How will it affect me, or has it already? These are some of the questions you may be asking yourself as you continue to press forward in your homeschooling program amid the current world-wide economic turmoil.

We won’t try to answer those questions ourselves, but we found a very easy-to-understand video explanation of the mess, and wanted to share it with you. Even if economics or finance are Greek to you, you’ll find this enlightening. And get them thar homeschooled kids of your’n gathered ’round the monitor for this as well. They need to understand what’s happening too.