Disc 1. Feeling at home in the financial markets
Financial markets run on information
Giving credit where credit is due
What is special about banks?
Disc 2. Billion-dollar IOUsusing bonds to borrow
The double identity of stocks
The mysterious money market
Think globally, lend ... globally
Disc 3. Returns and prices in the secondary market
The market for corporate control
What companies tell the markets
Disc 4. When Central Banks talk, markets listen
Interest rates as indicators
Risk management and insurance
Mortgages and securitization
The whys and hows of financial regulation