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Got a topic for our next Whiteboard video? Submit your ideas!

Help us break down complex financial topics into easy-to-understand analogies. Post a comment below with an idea for the topic of our next Whiteboard video and you could win a signed copy of Paddy Hirsch's new book "Man vs. Markets"

People who know me know I love two things: Explaining stuff to people and getting stuff for free. So it gives me great pleasure to combine these two loves by explaining to you how you how you can get something from me for free.

And that free thing is... a copy of my new book, Man vs. Markets. It explains all the basics and some of the not-so-basics about the financial system. Think of it as one of my Whiteboard videos on paper – with a fancy cover.

Post a comment and you could get free stuff
All you have to do is post a comment on this page suggesting an idea for an upcoming episode of the Whiteboard. Each week starting Friday Sept. 1 and continuing for the next few months, I’ll pick one person at random who left a comment and send them a signed copy of my book. And I’ll use your best ideas for future Whiteboard videos.

So post your comments with ideas – we need them, because without ideas, there’ll be no Whiteboards, and that could leave us all very badly needing a drink!

About the author

Paddy Hirsch is the Senior Producer, Personal Finance at Marketplace and the creator and host of the Marketplace Whiteboard. Follow Paddy on Twitter @paddyhirsch and on facebook at www.facebook.com/paddyhirsch101

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dnzl's picture
dnzl - Aug 28, 2012

Hello Paddy, could you please explain what a net-off is, and why brokers / traders like to do them?

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gantzgamer - Aug 28, 2012

Hi Paddy,

Looking forward to reading your book! I've enjoyed the whiteboards so far! Hope I can win a free copy.

Anyway, my suggestion for your next whiteboard would be an explanation of how credit card companies make profits from point-of-sale transactions and what the new rules mean for the industry.

Thanks,

Gantz

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Zoltan Sarkany - Aug 28, 2012

Hi Paddy, congratulation to your book. I think a video on Cross-firing scam would be also useful.

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behavioral3cology - Aug 28, 2012

Paddy, I love the whiteboard videos. Would you please take a question from the anarcho-syndicalist side of your viewership?

Since the adoption of computerized trading efficiency, how have financial institutions taken greater equity over successful private industries and thereby induced, through lack of sympathy, a gradual decline in workers' real wages?

Hope my question isn't too loaded for you. Thanks very much!

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bhayse - Aug 28, 2012

I would like to see a Whiteboard on banking ratios/terms...Texas Ratio, ROAA, OREO, Leverage Ratio, Etc...

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rbwalkerii - Aug 28, 2012

How do you calculate the value of a college degree and how much should you borrow to fund your education

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stockandawe - Aug 28, 2012

Thanks for the Marketplace Videos Paddy. Some suggestions for topics:

1. Trading with options - why it is useful, how an option is priced, etc
2. Venture Capital - how it works and maybe some thoughts on implications of the Jobs Act.
3. How a home mortgage interest rate is set for home buyers
4. Credit Score

Thanks and looking forward to a new set of videos explaining us how markets work.

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Mthusi - Aug 28, 2012

How a Weak/Strong Currency Affects an Economy? Link it with Gold Price and possibly with oil price. Many thanks Paddy. Cape Town, South Africa.

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parkes88 - Aug 28, 2012

Hi Paddy,
Please can you do a video on the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Thanks!

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townfam - Aug 28, 2012

I would love to know the practical not the greedy reason why interest rates for savers are so much different than interest rates for lenders.

Thank you,
Roger Townley

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