APM: Marketplace Whiteboard
Senior Producer Paddy Hirsch of Marketplace, the public radio business show, makes complicated financial concepts easy to understand in this entertaining, informative video series.
filed in Finance
103 episodes available
last episode published 4 years ago
first episode published 9 years ago
Episodes
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Why dark pools became a bad dream for European banks -
Explaining the stock split: Some financial gymnastics
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What the heck does ETF stand for? An explainer -
Explainer: Why dollar cost averaging is stupid smart -
Drowning in debt? Consider a restructuring -
When a company gives 'guidance': An explainer -
What is an index fund?: An explainer -
How feeling rich helps the economy: An explainer -
The magic of compounding: An explainer -
How borrowing money can create wealth: Explainer -
Explainer: Why can't we cap CEO pay? -
Explainer: the charitable tax deduction -
Explainer: Fiscal hawks vs. fiscal doves -
Explaining capital adequacy requirements -
Obama & the debt ceiling: An explainer -
Explaining exchanges -
So what is LIBOR, exactly? -
Opportunity cost: A simple Whiteboard explainer -
Fiat money: It has nothing to do with the car -
How a firm's goodwill is more like soft snow than a hard asset -
Why a currency war could hurt you -
Explaining the FHA with help from Uncle Charlie -
Shadow Banking - still dangerous -
Explaining dividend recapitalization -
The fiscal cliff explained (with help from Hollywood) -
The economic effects of quantitative easing -
VIDEO: The ECB's bond-buying program explained with bonbons -
Explaining what blind trust is with sausages -
What's a floating-rate note and how does it work? -
Eurobond: An explainer -
Explaining the Fed's 'Operation Twist' with diamonds -
Why a bank run is bad -
What's an index of credit default swaps? -
Assets: What are they anyway? -
FDIC spells a good, sound sleep for savers -
The role of a fiduciary -
Explaining insider trading -
Explaining proprietary trading and its risks -
What’s an IPO? -
What's the difference: Secured vs. unsecured bonds -
Private equity explained -
Re-hypothecation: How it's related to MF Global -
What is a junk bond? -
Why does the EU want U.S. dollars? -
Ring-fencing Italy -
The root of Italy's problems -
Haircut: More dangerous than it sounds -
WHITEBOARD: Exposure -- not necessarily a bad thing -
WHITEBOARD: What do companies do with all that cash? -
WHITEBOARD: Fiscal policy vs. monetary policy -
Why the debt ceiling debate is affecting the economy -
Meet the Maes: Whiteboard explores the Mae family tree -
Spotting a double-dip recession -
Why the Fed is buying back Treasuries and how that helps -
Beware the carry trade! -
Bankers go head to head over Tier 1 capital -
Market makers, stub quotes and new SEC rules -
Currency pegs -
'Casino' banks targeted in Volcker Rule -
Whiteboard: Investors sue banks over fiduciary responsibility -
Whiteboard: Counterparty risk -
Fannie, Freddie and the Fed -
Cov-lite loans are back -
CLOs -
Repo 105 -
Subprime: A meaty explanation -
PIIGS -
How the big banks make the big bucks -
Ratings conflict -
Interest rates -
Hostile takeovers -
Derivatives: An explanation -
Bonds, notes and bills -
Inflation -
Explaining high-frequency trading -
Factoring -
Financial alchemy -
Where's the toxic waste? -
Dark pools: An explainer -
The 'repo' market -
Meet Cap 'n Trade -
Capital structure -
Shadow banking: The primer -
The public-private partnership -
Collateral calls -
The Uptick Rule -
Tangible Common Equity, or TCE -
Cramdowns -
Write-downs -
Mark to market -
Toxic assets -
Why 'bad banks' might be a good thing -
Getting naked in short selling -
Quantitative easing -
A look inside hedge funds -
Leveraging and deleveraging -
Why 'Fallout' for the financial crisis? -
How credit cards become asset-backed bonds -
Margin calls and the financial market's decline -
Over-the-counter, over the top -
The credit crisis as Antarctic expedition -
Untangling credit default swaps -
Crisis explainer: Uncorking CDOs
