Marketplace Whiteboard Explains Economic and Financial Topics

in economy

Paddy Hirsch explains what happeed to the toxic assets.

Paddy Hirsch explains what happened to the toxic assets.

If you’re looking for a way to improve your financial  and  economic knowledge, you may want to check out Marketplace’s Whiteboard series. I really enjoyed watching Paddy Hirsch explain a little bit about where the toxic assets mentioned in the news.

Some other topics you might want to check out include:

  • Meet Cap ‘n Trade
  • The public-private partnership
  • Collateral calls
  • Write-downs
  • A look inside hedge funds
  • Leveraging and deleveraging
  • Why ‘Fallout’ for the financial crisis?
  • How credit cards become asset-backed bonds

    • Thanks to Consumerist for the link!

    Share and Enjoy:
    • email
    • Print
    • StumbleUpon
    • Digg
    • del.icio.us
    • Reddit
    • Tipd
    • Tumblr
    Blog Traffic Exchange Related Posts
    • Weekly Round Up: Looking to Get Things Rolling We're hoping to receive word this week on the closing date of our house. Once we get an estimate, we can decide if we want to lock in our rates. I have bags of clothing that we'll need to donate. I still have a few more things to look at and......
    • wad-of-cashCleaning Up Bank Accounts And Renewing Our Rental Lease     It's been a busy week with Merill Lynch, WaMu, AIG, and Lehman Brothers in a mess. Even today here are talking about the total costing taxpayers $1 trillion dollars. Is it time to panic? No. It is time to get be serious about your finance, though. Now is......
    Blog Traffic Exchange Here are Some Other Great Thoughts
    • Financial Web Advertisment on RateLadder I would like to thank Financial Web for their advertisement and sponsorship of Rate Ladder, P2P No Bank, and Pro Prosper. FinWeb.com is an independent financial portal which values information and education... Educating yourself concerning pertinent financial topics is the key to making quality financial decisions. The decisions that you make......
    • What is a Mutual Fund? Mutual fund is a corporate body, which works as an intermediary and invests in financial markets. Mutual funds collect money from the public and invest in financial instruments like equity, government securities, bonds, debentures etc.Investing through mutual funds is good for people who do not have much knowledge about......

    Leave a Comment