Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch describes on his personal blog this week how by pre-ordering your Thanksgiving turkey you’re actually buying a derivative.
Here’s his Whiteboard explainer on how derivatives work:
From Twitter- NewsHour: RT @milesobrien Solar Powered Radiation Detector in Kawauchi-20km from Fukushima Daiichi .224 micro sieverts http://t.co/E5nocOJv
- WNYC: Jimmy Sabater, Latin Soul Vocalist, Has Died http://t.co/7grqq8gX (via @NPRMusic)
- paulsolman: "@matunos: I dont buy it; either treasuries R sound or they're not." PS' OK, but how is it a trust FUND if yuu fund it with your own IOUs?
- KQED: The AP reports Whitney Houston has died, via @npr: http://t.co/L8EexVm9
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