Link: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/stock-market-has-been-and-always-will-be-volatile
Summary: Many people are worried about the stock markets, especially with everything going on in the world (Germany’s bad news, Ebola, etc). However, the stock market is a volatile place–and, according to Quincy Crosby, a financial market strategist at Prudential Financial, it’s meant to be that way.
Original Air Date: October 10, 2014
Length: 2 minutes 11 seconds
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/02/198077962/episode-470-killing-fannie-mae
Summary: The Planet Money team revisits the question what the U.S. government should do with the mortgage ‘backers’, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which it took over as part of the financial crisis bailout. Includes a discussion of opposing views on whether the government should be involved in the housing market, and an outlook on what is politically most likely to be the long term outcome for these entities.
Length: 25:20 min
Original air date: July 2, 2013
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
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