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This exclusive Summit Special edition of Grit & Polish, a brand-new podcast hosted by Amanda Leonard and Alison Inman. Filmed and recorded live at the Housing Community Summit, this podcast dives deeper into the themes and challenges explored in our sessions, offering fresh perspectives and candid reflections from key speakers and sector influencers.

Why do markets crash and bank panics happen? Conventional wisdom has gathered, like iron filings, at two intellectual poles: at one extreme is a hodge-podge of idiosyncratic, period-specific causes and at the other is a host of all-encompassing "single bullet" theories. In The Panic of 1907, authors Robert Bruner and Sean Carr offer an alternate perspective through a detailed narrative of one of the worst crises in modern financial history - one which ultimately transformed the American financial system and resulted in the establishment of the modern Federal Reserve.