The 100 words of the financial crisis.

Summary For more than two years, we have been living through the international financial crisis in an avalanche of information, images and statistics, combining the technical sophistication of experts, racy shortcuts and the anxiety-inducing movement of the markets. Here are 100 words to simply explain the financial system in which we live, to understand the chain of markets and its logic, to perceive the effects of an omnipresent debt, to define the actors of this crisis, to present remedies and the possible modes of regulation. 100 words, like pieces of a puzzle, to get a global picture. And to think about the future.