How CDOs can give different investors different levels of risk and returns with the same underlying assets
How two parties can get better outcomes by specializing in their comparative advantage and trading
Showing that a party benefits from trade as long as there is a comparative advantage (and not necessarily an absolute advantage)
Comparing Accrual and Cash Accounting
Understanding the components of the expenditure view of GDP. Consumption, investment, government spending and net exports
Introduction to the Investment/Savings curve
What a demand curve with constant unit elasticity would look like
Consumer surplus as difference between marginal benefit and price paid
The basic idea of a consumption function
Thinking about a consumption function where taxes are also a function of income (which is more realistic than constant taxes)
This video is from the Khan Academy subject of Economics and Finance on the topic of Finance and capital markets and it covers Contango.
Review of the difference uses of the words contango, backwardation, contango theory and theory of normal backwardation
What a trader means when they say that a market is in contango
Understanding how most corporate debt is different than most personal mortgages
Why people set up corporations
How an oil shock can slow the economy while causing inflation
Introduction to credit default swaps
Systemic risks of credit default swaps. Financial weapons of mass destruction.
Price of one good effecting quantity demanded of another
More analysis of the cupcake business.