Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch gives a bubbly explanation of the intricacies of collateralized debt obligations those financial instruments that got us into this financial...
When the analysts and experts talk about the current financial crisis, they often refer to credit default swaps. So, what exactly is a credit default...
2011 Knight Fellow Paddy Hirsch advocates for a "slow news" movement -- urging newsrooms to stop pushing their journalists to use every new technology or...
Lehman Brothers collapsed three years ago today, and nearly brought the entire financial system down with it. But Lehman wasn't the first casualty of the...
With the government borrowing even more money, and pushing America's debt levels sky high, there's a lot of talk about a double-dip recession. Paddy Hirsch...
Private equity funds are groups of investors that flip companies for a profit. It's the technique they use that makes them special, as senior producer...
