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12 March 2010 Comments

Illustration of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) & Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

Introduction to collateralized debt obligations (to be listen to after series on mortgage-backed securities).

Does the bailout have a chance of working?

Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swaps 2


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12 March 2010 Comments

The Housing Price Conundrum in Plain English – Mortgage-Backed Securities

Part I of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities

 
Part II of the introduction to mortgage-backed securities

More on mortgage-backed securities


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12 March 2010 Comments

The Housing Price Conundrum in Plain English – Introduction

This is one of 14 different videos if you have a home, thinking of buying a home or had a home and is now wondering why your living in a box. this is a good explanation of whats going on. When I’ve tired to read books on the subject I just get all con-foozed. because [...]


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11 March 2010 Comments

Survey: Toyota owners maintain high overall satisfaction despite recalls

A report released today by Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business found that despite the 8 million Toyota vehicles recalled since October 2009, current Toyota owners are not yet wavering in their support of or satisfaction with the company.


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11 March 2010 Comments

The 10 Books to Help You Understand the Crisis

The 10 Books to Help You Understand the Crisis

Citation: G, Cardiff, The 10 books to help you understand the crisis, Jun 2009, Available at: http://tinyurl.com/qsfdoz, Accessed 11 March 2010
Not surprisingly, the number of books about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis has proliferated in recent months. To help our readers keep up, Financial News has compiled the following list of 10 finance books [...]


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11 March 2010 Comments

高频交易 High Frequency Trading

高频交易 High Frequency Trading

Author: 戴伟高, 高频交易是私募壮大的最好选择, 期货日报, 2010-3-2 (可惜找不到原始文章的出处, 如果有同学找到了请告诉我)
中国期货私募的发展,缺乏A股那种从公募积累社会资源、个人财富和历练技能的条件。就是从其他方面募集到一些资金,也非常有限。操作方法基本是目前常见的实战型,这种方法管理少量资金还可以,而且收益十分不稳定,作为一个公司的投资策略风险很大,时间一长问题就出来了。规模稍微大些的期货私募,不局限于期货单一品种,而是组合投资分散资金,这种方法资金是关键。


10 March 2010 Comments

The Economics Blogs Resource Page

The Economics Blogs Resource Page

This page contains a categorized list of the best economics blogs, with a description of and link to each one.


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10 March 2010 Comments

The Finance Blogs Resource Page

The Finance Blogs Resource Page

This page contains a categorized list of the best finance blogs, with a description of and link to each one. It is ongoing development, please submit a blog for consideration in this list, and check back soon :-)

Abnormal Returns
The Aleph Blog
The Big Picture
The Conglomerate
EconBrowser
The Economics Roundtable
Empirical Finance Research
Eric [...]


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