Basic Video Tutorials on a Variety of Investment-related Topics

American Civics

Videos about how government works in the United States

  1. Electoral College
  2. Primaries and Caucuses
  3. Deficit and Debt Ceiling
  4. Government's Financial Condition
  5. Social Security Intro
  6. FICA Tax

Banking and Money

Videos on how banks work and how money is created.

  1. Banking 1
  2. Banking 2: A bank's income statement
  3. Banking 3: Fractional Reserve Banking
  4. Banking 4: Multiplier effect and the money supply
  5. Banking 5: Introduction to Bank Notes
  6. Banking 6: Bank Notes and Checks
  7. Banking 7: Giving out loans without giving out gold
  8. Banking 8: Reserve Ratios
  9. Banking 9: More on Reserve Ratios (Bad sound)
  10. Banking 10: Introduction to leverage (bad sound)
  11. Banking 11: A reserve bank
  12. Banking 12: Treasuries (government debt)
  13. Banking 13: Open Market Operations
  14. Banking 14: Fed Funds Rate
  15. Banking 15: More on the Fed Funds Rate
  16. Banking 16: Why target rates vs. money supply
  17. Banking 17: What happened to the gold?
  18. Banking 18: Big Picture Discussion
  19. The Discount Rate
  20. Repurchase Agreements (Repo transactions)
  21. Federal Reserve Balance Sheet
  22. Fractional Reserve Banking Commentary 1
  23. FRB Commentary 2: Deposit Insurance
  24. FRB Commentary 3: Big Picture
  25. LIBOR

Credit Crisis

Videos on the causes and effects of the credit crisis/crunch.

  1. The housing price conundrum
  2. Housing price conundrum (part 2)
  3. Housing Price Conundrum (part 3)
  4. Housing Conundrum (part 4)
  5. Mortgage-Backed Securities I
  6. Mortgage-backed securities II
  7. Mortgage-backed securities III
  8. Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)
  9. Bailout 13: Does the bailout have a chance of working?
  10. Credit Default Swaps
  11. Credit Default Swaps 2
  12. Wealth Destruction 1
  13. Wealth Destruction 2  

Currency

Videos about currency exchange

  1. Currency Exchange Introduction
  2. Currency Effect on Trade
  3. Currency Effect on Trade Review
  4. Pegging the Yuan
  5. Chinese Central Bank Buying Treasuries
  6. American-Chinese Debt Loop
  7. Debt Loops Rationale and Effects
  8. China keeps peg but diversifies holdings

Current Economics

Discussions of economic topics and how they relate to current events.

  1. Economics of a Cupcake Factory
  2. Cupcake Economics 2
  3. Cupcake Economics 3
  4. Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization
  5. Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization 2
  6. Inflation & Deflation 3: Obama Stimulus Plan
  7. Unemployment
  8. CPI Index
  9. Simple Analysis of Cost per Job Saved from Stimulus
  10. Unemployment Rate Primer
  11. Floating Exchange Resolving Trade Imbalance
  12. China Pegs to Dollar to Keep Trade Imbalance
  13. China buys US Bonds
  14. Review of China US currency situation

Finance

Videos on finance and macroeconomics

  1. Introduction to interest
  2. Interest (part 2)
  3. Introduction to Present Value
  4. Present Value 2
  5. Present Value 3
  6. Present Value 4 (and discounted cash flow)
  7. Introduction to Balance Sheets
  8. More on balance sheets and equity
  9. Home equity loans
  10. Renting vs. Buying a home
  11. Renting vs. buying a home (part 2)
  12. Renting vs. Buying (detailed analysis)
  13. The housing price conundrum
  14. Housing price conundrum (part 2)
  15. Housing Price Conundrum (part 3)
  16. Housing Conundrum (part 4)
  17. What it means to buy a company's stock
  18. Bonds vs. Stocks
  19. Shorting Stock
  20. Shorting Stock 2
  21. Is short selling bad?
  22. Chapter 7:Bankruptcy Liquidation
  23. Chapter 11: Bankruptcy Restructuring
  24. Return on capital
  25. Credit Default Swaps (CDS) Intro
  26. Mortgage Back Security Overview
  27. Collateralized Debt Obligation Overview
  28. Mortgage-Backed Securities I
  29. Mortgage-backed securities II
  30. Mortgage-backed securities III
  31. Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)
  32. Introduction to the yield curve
  33. Introduction to compound interest and e
  34. Compound Interest and e (part 2)
  35. Compound Interest and e (part 3)
  36. Compound Interest and e (part 4)
  37. Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. Solvency
  38. Bailout 2: Book Value
  39. Bailout 3: Book value vs. market value
  40. Bailout 4: Mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market
  41. Bailout 5: Paying off the debt
  42. Bailout 6: Getting an equity infusion
  43. Bailout 7: Bank goes into bankruptcy
  44. Bailout 8: Systemic Risk
  45. Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan
  46. Bailout 10: Moral Hazard
  47. Credit Default Swaps
  48. Credit Default Swaps 2
  49. Investment vs. Consumption 1
  50. Investment vs. Comsumption 2
  51. Bailout 11: Why these CDOs could be worth nothing
  52. Bailout 12: Lone Star Transaction
  53. Bailout 13: Does the bailout have a chance of working?
  54. Wealth Destruction 1
  55. Wealth Destruction 2
  56. Bailout 14: Possible Solution
  57. Bailout 15: More on the solution
  58. Banking 1
  59. Banking 2: A bank's income statement
  60. Banking 3: Fractional Reserve Banking
  61. Banking 4: Multiplier effect and the money supply
  62. Personal Bankruptcy: Chapters 7 and 13
  63. Introduction to Compound Interest
  64. The Rule of 72 for Compound Interest
  65. Annual Percentage Rate (APR) and Effective APR
  66. Introduction to Bonds
  67. Relationship between bond prices and interest rates
  68. Introduction to Mortgage Loans
  69. Traditional IRAs
  70. Roth IRAs
  71. 401(k)s
  72. Payday Loans
  73. Institutional Roles in Issuing and Processing Credit Cards
  74. Ponzi Schemes
  75. Currency Exchange Introduction
  76. Currency Effect on Trade
  77. Currency Effect on Trade Review
  78. Pegging the Yuan
  79. Chinese Central Bank Buying Treasuries
  80. American-Chinese Debt Loop
  81. Debt Loops Rationale and Effects
  82. American Call Options
  83. Basic Shorting
  84. American Put Options
  85. Call Option as Leverage
  86. Put vs. Short and Leverage
  87. Call Payoff Diagram
  88. Put Payoff Diagram
  89. Long Straddle
  90. Put as Insurance
  91. Put-Call Parity
  92. Put Writer Payoff Diagrams
  93. Call Writer Payoff Diagram
  94. Arbitrage Basics
  95. Put-Call Parity Arbitrage I
  96. Put-Call Parity Arbitrage II
  97. Put-Call Parity Clarification
  98. Actual Option Quotes
  99. Option Expiration and Price
  100. Forward Contract Introduction
  101. Futures Introduction
  102. Motivation for the Futures Exchange
  103. Futures Margin Mechanics
  104. Verifying Hedge with Futures Margin Mechanics
  105. Futures and Forward Curves
  106. Contango from Trader Perspective
  107. Severe Contango Generally Bearish
  108. Backwardation Bullish or Bearish
  109. Futures Curves II
  110. Contango
  111. Backwardation
  112. Contango and Backwardation Review
  113. Upper Bound on Forward Settlement Price
  114. Lower Bound on Forward Settlement Price
  115. Arbitraging Futures Contract
  116. Arbitraging Futures Contracts II
  117. Cash Accounting
  118. Accrual Basis of Accounting
  119. Comparing Accrual and Cash Accounting
  120. Balance Sheet and Income Statement Relationship
  121. Basic Cash Flow Statement
  122. Doing the example with Accounts Payable growing
  123. Expensing a Truck leads to inconsistent performance
  124. Depreciating the truck
  125. Depreciation in Cash Flow
  126. Amortization and Depreciation
  127. Basic Capital Structure Differences
  128. Market Capitalization
  129. Market Value of Assets
  130. LIBOR
  131. Fair Value Accounting
  132. Tax Deductions Introduction
  133. Alternative Minimum Tax
  134. Term Life Insurance and Death Probability
  135. Back of Envelope Office Space Conundrum
  136. Corporations and Limited Liability
  137. Is Limited Liability or Double Taxation Fair
  138. Open-Ended Mutual Fund (Part 1)
  139. Open-End Mutual Fund Redemptions
  140. Closed-End Mutual Funds
  141. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
  142. Hedge Funds Intro
  143. Hedge Fund Structure and Fees
  144. Are Hedge Funds Bad?
  145. Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Private Equity
  146. Treasury Bond Prices and Yields
  147. Annual Interest Varying with Debt Maturity
  148. The Yield Curve
  149. Fed Open Market Operations
  150. Quantitative Easing
  151. More on Quantitative Easing (and Credit Easing)
  152. Hedge Fund Strategies - Long Short 1
  153. Hedge Fund Strategies - Long Short 2
  154. Hedge Fund Strategies - Merger Arbitrage 1
  155. Stock Dilution
  156. Acquisitions with Shares
  157. Price Behavior After Announced Acquisition
  158. Simple Merger Arb with Share Acquisition
  159. Basic Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
  160. Corporate Debt versus Traditional Mortgages
  161. AMT Overview
  162. Open market operations and Quantitative Easing Overview
  163. Another Quantitative Easing Video
  164. US and Japanese Quantitative Easing
  165. Term and Whole Life Insurance Policies 2
  166. Term and Whole Life Insurance Policies
  167. Estate Tax Introduction
  168. Human Capital
  169. Risk and Reward Introduction
  170. Futures Fair Value in the Pre-Market
  171. What is Inflation
  172. Inflation Data
  173. Moderate Inflation in a Good Economy
  174. Stagflation
  175. Real and Nominal Return
  176. Calculating Real Return in Last Year Dollars
  177. Relation Between Nominal and Real Returns and Inflation
  178. Use Cases for Credit Default Swaps
  179. Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
  180. Deflation
  181. Velocity of Money Rather than Quantity Driving Prices
  182. Deflation Despite Increases in Money Supply
  183. Deflationary Spiral
  184. Hyperinflation
  185. Estate Tax Basics
  186. Term and Whole Life
  187. Open-Ended Mutual Funds
  188. Unemployment Rate Primer (v2)
  189. Time Value of Money
  190. Mortgage Interest Rates
  191. Inflation Overview
  192. Basics of US Income Tax Rate Schedule
  193. Carry Trade Basics

  194. Interpretting Futures Fair Value in the PreMarket

  195. Interest Rate Swap 1

  196. Interest Rate Swap 2

Geithner Plan

Videos on the Geithner Plan to solve the banking crisis.

  1. Geithner Plan I
  2. Geithner Plan II
  3. Geithner Plan 2.5
  4. Geithner Plan III
  5. Geithner Plan IV
  6. Geithner 5: A better solution  

Microeconomics

Topics covered in a traditional college level introductory microeconomics course

  1. Production Possibilities Frontier
  2. Opportunity Cost
  3. Increasing Opportunity Cost
  4. Allocative Efficiency and Marginal Benefit
  5. Economic Growth through Investment
  6. Comparative Advantage Specialization and Gains from Trade
  7. Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage
  8. Law of Demand
  9. Price of Related Products and Demand
  10. Changes in Income, Population, or Preferences
  11. Normal and Inferior Goods
  12. Inferior Goods Clarification
  13. Law of Supply
  14. Factors Affecting Supply
  15. Market Equilibrium
  16. Changes in Market Equilibrium
  17. Price Elasticity of Demand
  18. More on Elasticity of Demand
  19. Perfect Inelasticity and Perfect Elasticity of Demand
  20. Constant Unit Elasticity
  21. Total Revenue and Elasticity
  22. More on Total Revenue and Elasticity
  23. Cross Elasticity of Demand
  24. Elasticity of Supply
  25. Elasticity and Strange Percent Changes
  26. Demand Curve as Marginal Benefit Curve
  27. Consumer Surplus Introduction
  28. Total Consumer Surplus as Area
  29. Producer Surplus
  30. Rent Control and Deadweight Loss
  31. Minimum Wage and Price Floors
  32. Taxation and Dead Weight Loss
  33. Percentage Tax on Hamburgers
  34. Taxes and Perfectly Inelastic Demand
  35. Taxes and Perfectly Elastic Demand
  36. Marginal Utility
  37. Equalizing Marginal Utility per Dollar Spent
  38. Deriving Demand Curve from Tweaking Marginal Utility per Dollar
  39. Budget Line
  40. Optimal Point on Budget Line
  41. Types of Indifference Curves
  42. Economic Profit vs Accounting Profit
  43. Depreciation and Opportunity Cost of Capital
  44. Fixed, Variable, and Marginal Cost.
  45. Visualizing Average Costs and Marginal Costs as Slope
  46. Marginal Cost and Average Total Cost
  47. Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost
  48. Marginal Revenue Below Average Total Cost
  49. Long Term Supply Curve and Economic Profit
  50. Perfect Competition
  51. Monopoly Basics
  52. Monopolist Optimizing Price (part 1)- Total Revenue.
  53. Monopolist Optimizing Price (part 2)- Marginal Revenue
  54. Monopolist Optimizing Price (part 3)- Dead Weight Loss.avi
  55. Optional Calculus Proof to Show that MR has Twice Slope of Demand
  56. Review of Revenue and Cost Graphs for a Monopoly
  57. Oligopolies and Monopolisitc Competition

Paulson Bailout

Videos to help understand the bailout.

  1. Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. Solvency
  2. Bailout 2: Book Value
  3. Bailout 3: Book value vs. market value
  4. Bailout 4: Mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market
  5. Bailout 5: Paying off the debt
  6. Bailout 6: Getting an equity infusion
  7. Bailout 7: Bank goes into bankruptcy
  8. Bailout 8: Systemic Risk
  9. Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan
  10. Bailout 10: Moral Hazard
  11. Bailout 11: Why these CDOs could be worth nothing
  12. Bailout 12: Lone Star Transaction
  13. Bailout 14: Possible Solution
  14. Bailout 15: More on the solution

Valuation and Investing

Building blocks and case studies on the financial analysis and valuation of public equities.

  1. Price and Market Capitalization
  2. Introduction to the Income Statement
  3. Earnings and EPS
  4. Introduction to the Price-to-Earnings Ratio
  5. P/E Discussion
  6. ROA Discussion 1
  7. ROA Discussion 2
  8. Depreciation
  9. Amortization
  10. P/E Conundrum
  11. Enterprise Value
  12. EBITDA

Venture Capital and Capital Markets

All of the sources of funding (capital) for a business.

  1. Raising money for a startup
  2. Getting a seed round from a VC
  3. Going back to the till: Series B
  4. An IPO
  5. More on IPOs
  6. Equity vs. Debt
  7. Bonds vs. Stocks
  8. Chapter 7:Bankruptcy Liquidation
  9. Chapter 11: Bankruptcy Restructuring