Individual Finance - What is finance?; Individual Finance; Finance and Lawyers; The time value of money; The time price of money;Compound interest; The effect of compound interest; Example: An investment decision; Example: Refined litigation risk analysis; Inflation; The Rule of 72; Net present value of an investment; The concept of Annuities; Internal rate of return; Risk and return; Mortgages as means of individual finance; The concept of a mortgage; Student debt in the US; Financial distress: Personal bankruptcy; Financial innovations before the crisis; The financial crisis - how come?; Global CDO Issuance Volume 2000 - 2012; Legal responses to the finacial crisis; Too big to fail?.