The financial crisis that rolled across the world in 2007 and 2008 has affected the lives of tens of millions. This definitive report looks in detail at the country at the eye of the storm - the USA - and explains exactly what happened and why. It is the outcome of over a year's scrupulous investigation by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, who reviewed millions of pages of documents and interviewed more than 600 key people to build up a painstaking, fascinating and often sharply critical picture of an economic meltdown that will shape our lives for many years to come.