Richard Core
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Balance sheets, Bush and Bentley . . .
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Richard Core
Oct 24, 2008
Jokes collected by The New York Times' Freakonomics blog from its readers ......
Getting naked in short selling
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Richard Core
Oct 22, 2008
The practice of short selling has been blamed for the collapse of several major companies' shares during the financial crisis. What is short...
A look inside Marketplace
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Richard Core
Oct 21, 2008
If you're a loyal listener to Marketplace (you are a loyal listener, aren't you?), you may appreciate the Los Angeles Times' story on what's going...
The credit crisis as Antarctic expedition
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Richard Core
Oct 13, 2008
In the third installment of his videos making the financial crisis easier to understand, Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains how banks...
Untangling credit default swaps
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Richard Core
Oct 8, 2008
Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch is back with the second of his Crisis Explainer videos. This time he goes to the whiteboard to make the...
Crisis explainer: Uncorking CDOs
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Richard Core
Oct 3, 2008
Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch helped us in the Marketplace office understand how some of Wall Street's complicated investment instruments led us into...
Revenge, rather than stopping the bleeding
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Richard Core
Sep 29, 2008
Dr. Richard Peterson, a founder of MarketPsych, a hedge fund that makes investments based on neuro-economic research, just happened to be in our...
Revenge, rather than stopping the bleeding
by
Richard Core
Sep 29, 2008
Dr. Richard Peterson, a founder of MarketPsych, a hedge fund that makes investments based on neuro-economic research, just happened to be in our...