Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard.
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said today that about 25 financial companies are "systemically important." Too big to fail, in other words. What? 25? Fi…
The Alliance for American Manufacturing sent us this chart today, noting that aside from oil imports, the U.S. trade deficit is dominated by…
Fans of Liverpool Football Club are gripping the edges of their seats today, but not because it's two-all in the last seconds of overtime. The cl…
Last year, then Chairman of the SEC, Christopher Cox, banned naked short selling of shares for a period. Discussion of nakedness in the markets s…
With the Dow up 188 points and finishing in the 9000s, Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson did a quick-and-dirty straw poll of economists….
Yuliya Demyanyk has published an intriguing piece on the Cleveland Fed website. Ten Myths about Subprime Mortgages, it's called. Demyanyk is a s…
Manuel Quinones of Capital News Connection quizzed some Tennessee representatives about the financial crisis – well, about derivatives, anyway -…
The Dow pumped up about 9000 this morning, thanks to a bunch of good earnings numbers. Ford, AT&T and EBay all look better than expected. Thr…
Earnings are likely to move the markets today, and they're swamping the headlines this morning, but there is some more color out there. Reuters …
Dark pools are exchanges where people trade stocks anonymously. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains how they work, and why the SEC is considering regulating them.
