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Financial Markets

Intermediaries

What does a bank do? The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco provides an answer:
www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/answerxml.cfm?selectedurl=/2001/0107.html

The Role of the U.S. Government
Instruments and Rates

The late Paul Heyne explains interest rates:
www.econlib.org/library/Enc/InterestRates.html

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examines the difference between debt and equity markets:
www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/answerxml.cfm?selectedurl=/2005/0510.html

Portfolio Choice

In 1990 Harry Markowitz won a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work about trading off risk for return that established the analysis of portfolio choice. Read about it at the web site for Nobel Prizes:
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1990/press.html

Speculators and Markets

John Stoessel write in praise of speculators:
www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/bless-the-speculator.html

Market for Foreign Exchange

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has a concise summary of financial markets, including the market of foreign exchange, and why they are important:
www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/answerxml.cfm?selectedurl=/2001/0106.html

Fixed Exchange Rates

The New York Federal Reserve explains devaluations and revaluations, events that happen with fixed exchange rates:
www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed38.html  


These links were checked on July 5, 2008.


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