Can The Great Recession Happen Again?

I am not quite sure exactly when I received“ The Subprime Primer,’’ a slide deck that someone e-mailed me early in 2008. I do remember thinking that it was unlikely ever to be surpassed as an introduction to the financial chain reaction that began as I was writing“ The Ascent of Money’’ and reached its climax in the months after the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 10th…