Podcast Episodes for Finance Classes

Podcast episodes for Finance classes.  Primarily for my own classes, but useful in any finance class.

For economics classes, here is a list I made as well.


FOR A CORPORATE FINANCE class

A mule trader (finance is not new):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2015-12-14/episode-6-meet-the-man-who-made-millions-trading-mules

How finance has grown:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/

Podcast episodes for economics classes

Here are some great podcast episodes for economic classes.  I use them (either reference them or make them available to my students).

 Remember, my linking to them is not an endorsement of everything they say, but rather a way of getting us all to think about things a little differently)



Economic Podcast Episodes

* Why economics and politics don't mix:



*  Introducing GDP: http://

The best microstructure example for class I have ever seen

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



This is really cool.



So most finance classes traditionally talk about how trading floors worked in the past.  You know the drill: open outcry, specialist, floor brokers, etc.  But trading has changed so much, that armed with that knowledge only one would barely recognize today's marketplace made up of many exchanges, OTC