Paddy Hirsch from Marketplace once again does a masterful job on the white board, this time explaining Repo 105, the latest financial shenanigan to hit the papers.
Repo 105 from Marketplace on Vimeo.
~alex
Entries Tagged as 'Market Definitions'
Repo 105 Explained
March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Market Definitions
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Nice, basic explainer of derivatives
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Market Definitions
As always, hat tip to Marketplace and Paddy Hirsch.
Derivatives from Marketplace on Vimeo.
~alex
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Worthwhile reading: Wealth is a claim on future assets
October 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Market Definitions
The Economist has this nice explainer about the nature of wealth.
From the article:
Looked at in that way, financial assets are not “wealth” but a claim on real wealth. If those claims multiply or rise in price, that does not mean aggregate wealth has increased. If a pizza is cut into eight instead of four slices, [...]
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You, the experience good
September 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun, Market Definitions, Other Markets
I have written before about experience goods (as opposed to search goods) and the impact of these concepts on the ecommerce user experience, but quite frankly it never occurred to me to think of people as experience goods.
But that has been corrected thanks to a new paper about online dating (Frost, Jeana H., Zoe Chance, [...]
Convenience fees equals “monopoly rent”
September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Market Definitions, Ticketing
I recently discovered NPR’s Planet Money and have been enjoying it enormously. This podcast in particular is quite good and discusses the economics of ticketing, something of interest to me.
One very nice thing about the podcast is that they take the time to define basic economic concepts, like monopoly (or economic) rent. [...]
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Nice video explainer from Marketplace: Dark Pools
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Market Definitions
I’ve written about dark pools before. I find them fascinating. Here’s a nice explainer from Marketplace.org.
Dark pools from Marketplace on Vimeo.
~alex
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(ir)Rational market theory
June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Market Definitions
Today’s FT carries an article by Gillian Tett — Credit crunch causes analysts to rethink rational market theory. One has to wonder why the frenzy in internet stocks in 2000 wasn’t enough to cause “analysts” to rethink their theories while the credit crunch could. Maybe they lost enough money this time …?
Anyway, if [...]
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“Personally, I’d prefer a dollar’s worth of liverwurst, but anyhoo …”
June 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Market Definitions
Via Economix, this wonderful little explainer about inflation … circa 1933, attendant with 1933 economics, and humor.
~alex
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Definitions in the health care debate
May 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets, Market Definitions
Economix at the NYTimes has a nice post about how definitions mean something … and then proceeds to define some important terms in the health care debate: Socialized Medicine; and Socialized Health Insurance.
As blog author Uwe Reinhardt points out, people often confuse them, especially, it seems, when they’re on the campaign trail. And, interestingly [...]
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What is Libor?
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Market Definitions
I’ve known about the Libor for some time now, and could even somewhat define it, but I came across a very nice description of it in this FRBSF Economic Letter, Behavior of Libor in the Current Financial Crisis.
The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, is … widely used. Estimates are that, worldwide, a total of [...]
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