Still don’t understand why we’re in a recession? Is all that mumbo-jumbo about sub-prime mortgages, collateralized debt obligations, frozen credit markets, and credit default swaps making your head spin? The Crisis of Credit Visualized explains it all with simple pictures, in plain English.

For his thesis work, creator Jonathan Jarvis “explores the use of new media to make sense of an increasingly complex world.” With these videos, he succeeds beautifully. In an increasingly chaotic media landscape, sometimes only a college student’s YouTube upload can make sense of anything.

(Via Bluejackal.)