An Overview of Financial Markets and Institutions

Interest Rates

Loanable Funds

Factors Affecting Debt Security Yields

Interest Rate Structure

The Term Structure of Interest Rates

The Yield Curve and Recessions

Predicting Recession with the Yield Curve

For What is the Yield-to-Maturity Used?

The Fed and Monetary Policy

An Overview of the Federal Reserve System

Implementing Monetary Policy

Fed vs Treasury: Chair of CEA Interview

Credit Markets

Short-term Credit Markets

Long-term Credit Markets

Mortgage Markets

Securitization

Securitization

Synthetic CDOs

Interest Rate Risk

Intro to Duration

The Duration of a Perpetuity

Convexity

Interest Rate Caps

Hedging Interest Rate Risk

Interest Rate Swaps

Exchange Traded Volatility

The VIX

The VVIX

Financial Institutions Topics

An Overview of Depository Institutions

Deposit Betas