Capital markets connect businesses seeking funds with individuals to earn income by investing in stocks and bonds. Capital markets include the stock market and the bond market. In this module, students will learn how capital markets help keep the economy moving and provide opportunities for businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors to achieve their goals. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Learn about a tax accounting career from a senior manager of a firm that prepares tax returns for clients, audits their business plans and finances, and helps them stay compliant with current tax laws.

Meet an accounting business owner and find out how she uses her degree, skills and technology to solve problems and serve needs for both businesses and individual clients.

Look inside the business of farming with a real farmer who explains how he started with a 10-acre field and helped build a large family farm enterprise. Hear the importance of business skills and a college degree for success in a farming career.

A financial coach gives tips on budgeting and discusses her career helping clients at a community center develop their financial goals. She also discusses the skills and training that are needed in her line of work.

Ohio University budget director Chad Mitchell shares what a fiscal analyst does and explains how to prepare for a career in finance.

A global brand manager with a curiosity about other cultures and dual degrees in business and Chinese studies talks about the career path that led her to Procter & Gamble.

Hospitality-related careers include bed-and-breakfast manager, wedding planner, and restaurant owner. Viewers will see how an understanding of both the fine arts and financial literacy are important in this line of work.

Watch and learn about the many roles of a human resource manager, including recruiting, screening and training job applicants, acting as a liaison between employers and employees, and protecting workers.

This Ohio-based contract manufacturer has four offices in China. The company's founder has a bicultural background and fluency in three languages, which helped her find a niche in sourcing consumer and industrial products from China.

Why is it important for a digital media company to have a production accountant? Find out what a production accountant does on a daily basis and what it takes to become one.

Tony Ganzer works as a host and producer for WCPN, Cleveland's popular NPR affiliate, but he's covered everything from tourism in Arizona to banks in Switzerland and revolution in Egypt, and has reported stories in multiple languages. In this video we follow his career over several continents and learn why journalists must often delve into the complicated world of finance.

Three entrepreneurs tell how they pooled their college education and individual talents to create a successful chain of "fast casual" sushi restaurants.

In this video viewers will learn why having knowledge and competence in customer service, world languages, fine arts, and financial literacy are critical for a restaurant manager.

Learn about a career in logistics from a warehouse scheduler who shares how he gets to use his communication skills and education in technology and management to coordinate the daily flow of trucks in and out of his company’s large warehouse.

Meet a warehouse manager who explains how he uses supply chain computer technology to monitor inbound and outbound products in his rewarding job in a large, 24/7, warehouse operation.

Hear from a transportation supervisor of a company that relies heavily on vehicle use in its day-to-day operations. Learn about this career that involves maximizing operational efficiency while minimizing costs

This flash animation for the song "Closer to Free" describes the Economic Freedom of the World index, provides a summary of countries with high and low values of the index, and highlights the importance of economic freedom in a country's standard of living.

Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.

Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls from nine different countries and the power education has to change their lives. The accompanying curriculum provides teachers with a unique opportunity to educate students about the issues surrounding, and the impact of, girls' education in the developing world.