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Carl Richards: Live and doodling
Friday, March 2, 2012
Tess talks with personal finance commentator and artist Carl Richards in front of a live audience in Park City, Utah.
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Haircut: More dangerous than it sounds
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
If Greece accepts the terms of a new aid package it's expected to get a haircut on its debt. But Sr. Editor Paddy Hirsch explain why that haircut...
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WHITEBOARD: Exposure -- not necessarily a bad thing
Friday, October 21, 2011
Most people have dark thoughts when they hear the word exposure, but exposure can be beneficial -- if it's done in moderation, as I explain in this...
WHITEBOARD: What do companies do with all that cash?
Friday, September 30, 2011
Companies are hoarding cash -- to cushion themselves if the economy worsens. But where do they keep all that money? Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains
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WHITEBOARD: Fiscal policy vs. monetary policy
Monday, September 5, 2011
Often conflated, often confused, fiscal and monetary policies take very different approaches to influence the economy. And they rely on two very ...
WHITEBOARD: The name's Bond. Eurobond.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
James Bond is a weapon of last resort, the man you send in when diplomacy and threats have failed. Eurobond is a similar sort of chap......
Banks Are Magic!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Banks are magic - they create money out of thin air.
They do it for their own good, of course. But by helping themselves they're actually helping...
WHITEBOARD: What is a ratings agency, anyway?
Sunday, August 7, 2011
How credit agencies work from Marketplace on Vimeo.
Here's how I look at it. Imagine a house, full of medical students, none of whom have a ...
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VIDEO: A history of wealth and lifespan visualized
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Special thanks to LA comedian and Office star Rainn Wilson for pointing us to this amazing video explainer from the BBC via his hilarious Twitt...
Enlightenment, anyone?
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
I love the way good ideas sometimes seem to just float around, waiting to be pulled down and prototyped. I pitched my "explainer archive" to the...
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Times-Picayune to cut back jobs and production schedule
As someone born and breaded in New Orleans I'm sorry to see this news from my hometown paper, but as someone who's found reading it an...
BostonPeng | May 24, 2012
High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
Hi,
First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...
kingjon | May 18, 2012 Time to bring back Glass-Steagall?
I can finally agree with Robert Reich100%. To our detriment, banks have forgotten that there is a difference between manipulating money, and...
pauliswood | May 16, 2012
