Sunday, September 5, 2010

How The Risk of a Double Dip Recession is Being Overblown

How The Risk of a Double Dip Recession is Being Overblown | F Wall Street

An excellent article from F Wall Street commentator (and value investor), Cale Smith. Written at the end of July, he has skepticism about a double-dip recession. Great read.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Quantitative Easing

Another GREAT explanation from Paddy Hirsch at Marketplace. This time he explains Quantitative Easing.



NPR's Planet Money had a podcast that discussed this type of process recently. Though they don't mention it [quantitative easing] by name, if you listen closely, it's there.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Untangling Credit Default Swaps

Much thanks to my buddy Shawn for telling me about some excellent youtube videos regarding a confusing topic - credit default swaps (yay...drawings!).