This 4-minute video lesson looks at the relationship between balance sheets and income statements. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 108 of 184]

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This 4-mintue video lesson discusses contango. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 98 of 184]

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This 4-minute video lesson discusses depreciation in cash flow. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 113 of 184]

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This 4-minute video lesson discusses the basics of hyperinflation. It looks at Weimar Germany, Hungarian Pengo and the Zibabwean Dollar. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 172 of 184]

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This 3-minute video lesson takes a look at actual sequential and year-over-year inflation data. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 160 of 184]

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This 9-minute video lesson provides an overview of price inflation and how it is calculated. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 179 of 184]

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This 3-minute video lesson explains why there tends to be moderate inflation during good economies. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 161 of 184]

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This 3-minute video lesson looks at inflation and real and nominal return. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 163 of 184]

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This 4-minute video lesson looks at the relation between nominal and real returns and inflation. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 165 of 184]

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This 3-minute video lesson looks at how a supply shock can cause prices to rise and the economy to stagnate. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 162 of 184]

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This 3-minute video lesson provides the basics of what price inflation is and how the CPI-U is calculated. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 159 of 184]

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Inflation, unemployment, recession, and economic growth affect people in real ways. Through interactive lessons, this module teaches students about fiscal policy, the avenue by which Congress and the president attempt to influence the economy. Three modules that would further students understanding of the content are GDP and Pizza, The Unemployment Short Modules, and The Fed's New Monetary Policy Tools. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Inflation, unemployment, recession, and economic growth affect people’s lives. This module teaches students about fiscal policy, the avenue by which Congress and the president can attempt to influence the economy. Other modules that would further students understanding of the content are GDP and Pizza, Government Budgets, The Story of Unemployment, and Monetary Policy. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

History holds many economic lessons. The Great Depression, in particular, is an event that provides the opportunity to teach and learn a great deal about economics-whether you're studying the economic reasons that the Depression took place, the factors that helped it come to an end or the impact on Americans who lived through it. This curriculum is designed to provide teachers with economic lessons that they can share with their students to help them understand this significant experience in U.S. history.

In this module, superhero Jack of All Trades and his sidekick Andy are confronted by a villain that threatens to disrupt society and rob the world of the certainty people have come to expect. And this dastardly villain is...Inflation. Jack and Andy time travel to the period known as The Great Inflation to discover the truth about inflation. With the help of Dr. Equilibrium, professor of economics, they learn that inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few goods and that the Federal Reserve System plays a key role in maintaining stable prices. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Want to learn about the Federal Reserve? Have no fear! In Plain English describes the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System in an easy-to-understand interactive format.

Topics include:

Why Do We Need a Federal Reserve?
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
What Does the Federal Reserve Do?
Independence and Accountability

The Federal Reserve System is an important – but complicated institution. Make sense of the Fed in a format that is explained – In Plain English. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Want to learn about the Federal Reserve? Have no fear! En Lenguaje Sencillo describes the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System in an easy-to-understand interactive format.

Topics include:

Why Do We Need a Federal Reserve?
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
What Does the Federal Reserve Do?
Independence and Accountability

The Federal Reserve System is an important – but complicated institution. Make sense of the Fed in a format that is explained – En Lenguaje Sencillo. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

What is inflation? What impact does inflation have on saving? How can an understanding of inflation help you make more informed choices about saving? These are important personal finance questions, and this short module on inflation will help you answer them. A basic understanding of what inflation is and how it affects savings helps people make saving and investing choices. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Explore a real-life application of percentage-the math behind rates of inflation-in two animated videos about inflation from KQED. The first video provides an overview of inflation; the second explains the role of inflation in a healthy economy. In the accompanying classroom activity, students find the price of a given item (e.g., a pair of jeans) this year, last year, 50 years ago, and 100 years ago and compare percentage price increase with total rate of inflation over each time period. To get the most from this lesson, students should be comfortable finding percentage increase and interpreting percentages greater than 100.