Summary: The team explains the challenges to doing business within the political and economic structure of the European Union. An office building between Germany and Netherlands is used as an example of the relationship and differences among the countries of the European Union.
Original air date: August 10, 2012
Length: 15:15 min
Summary: NPR interviews Hans Humes, CEO of an American hedge fund called Greylock Capital management who explains the complexity of the Greek financial crisis and its impact on the Eurozone.
Original air date: January 24, 2012
Length: 15:05 min
Summary: The podcast outlines the practices and economic implications of private equity firms, as well as the risk involved in leveraging different companies. Bain Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, is used as the primary example.
Original air date: February 21, 2012
Length: 25:15 min
Link: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/derman_on_theor.html
Summary: Emmanuel Derman, a former physicist and Goldman Sachs quantitative analyst, criticizes attempts made to apply scientific formulas in an effort to elucidate financial circumstances or events.
Original air date: March 12, 2012
Length: 59 min
Summary: Discusses aspects of the Global Financial Crisis including credit shortage, credit market freeze, credit default swaps and the 2008 bailout bill.
Original air date: October 3, 2008
Length: 60:00
Link: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
Summary: Discusses how the roots of the 2008 Wall Street meltdown lay in the housing crisis. Also highlights links to international finance.
Original air date: May 9, 2008
Length: 60:00
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/01/28/129708297/deep-read-traders-guns-money
Summary: Interview with Satyajit Das a risk consultant and author of “Traders, Guns & Money: Knows and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives. Discussion of what happens inside Wall Street firms. Part of the “Deep Read” series of interviews with authors of economics related books.
Original air date: September 7, 2010
Length: 23:00
Main story content begins: 3:27
Summary: Introduction to socialism. Part I of a consideration of political philosophies in the context of U.S. elections.
Original air date: September 17, 2010
Length: 23:45
Main story content begins: 3:27
Note: discussion of inflation, deflation, deflationary spiral, and role of the fed as part of economic indicator 0:00 – 3:26 in context of possible deflation in U.S. economy at the time.
Summary: Presentation of the origins of the introduction of the Brazilian Real in 1994.
Original air date: October 1, 2010
Length: 29:56
Main story content begins: 3: 27
Summary: Explains CPI through a shopping trip with one of the federal employees in charge of contributing to the monthly determination of the Consumer Price Index.
Original air date: October 22, 2010
Length: 16:45
Main story content begins: 2:54
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