Marketplace Whiteboard – explaining the financial crisis

December 4th, 2008

Series of videos that explain various financial concepts (such as asset-backed securities, margin calls, CDO’s, etc) as well as aspects of the financial crisis  (such as “fallout”, CDS problems, and the credit crisis) in simple terms

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/videos/whiteboard/

Worth a watch (hat tip: Raymond Chen)

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