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"Financial Literacy: Finding Your Way in the Financial Markets is an essential primer on this domain, from its functions, strengths, and possibilities to its weaknesses and vulnerabilities. In 24 eye-opening, plainspoken lectures, award-winning Professor Connel Fullenkamp of Duke University reveals the interconnected workings of the financial markets and how society's financial strength-- and your own-- depend on money continuing to move through these channels. You'll not only gain a new appreciation for the variety of financial products and services available to you, but also for how crucial we as individuals are to the functioning of the entire system" -- from publisher's web site

Compact discs

24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture

Course No. 5831

Unabridged

Connel Fullenkamp, Duke University

Feeling at home in the financial markets -- Where the money goes -- Financial markets run on information -- Giving credit where credit is due -- Fine print -- What is special about banks? -- Billion-dollar IOUs--using bonds to borrow -- Double identity of stocks -- Sell job -- Mysterious money market -- Think globally, lend-- globally -- Trading securities -- Returns and prices in the secondary market -- Truth about pricing -- A tale of two funds -- Market for corporate control -- What companies tell the markets -- What moves the markets -- When Central Banks talk, markets listen -- Interest rates as indicators -- Risk management and insurance -- Mortgages and securitization -- Whys and Hows of financial regulation -- Future of finance