What's a bond, a Treasury, a T-bill? | Marketplace From American Public Media

Marketplace has been really good at explaining the economy lately in layman's terms. Here is an explanation of some of the more safe and less volatile financial instruments you've heard a lot about recently.

For more like this and general economics news, read the Breakdown blog or try to listen to the various incarnations of the show. The local NPR plays it at 6:30 PM here instead of the better timed 5:30 I was used to in Vegas.

Pity.