Episode 1 - The Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong

Before banks collapsed and markets panicked, the financial crisis was something quieter.In this episode, we break down what the financial system was meant to do, what changed in the years leading up to 2008, and why those changes made everyday life more fragile than most people realized.This is not a finance lecture. It is a clear, human explanation of how trust, credit, and routine connected everyone to the system and why, when that trust started to crack, the effects reached far beyond Wall Street.This episode lays the groundwork for the rest of the season. Because before belief broke, the system had already started to change