Financial Policy Forum: a hidden nugget

Put together by people who know what they are talking about, this website is well worth a visit.

Note the dates on the briefs and reports: these warnings were issued long before the great economic crisis (and, we were reminded yesterday, it might be W-shaped or worse.) The section on special reports and briefs petered out in late 2006, seemingly because almost nobody was interested in that sort of thing in those heady days.

Still, it has some excellent primers on derivatives and other complex, dangerous things, and there is a little bit of more recent material here.