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Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know

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An economist and award-winning professor leads you in a panoramic exploration of our monetary and financial systems, their inner workings, and their crucial role and presence in your world.

Syllabus

  • 01: The Importance of Money
  • 02: Money as a Social Contract
  • 03: How Is Money Created?
  • 04: Monetary History of the United States
  • 05: Local Currencies and Nonstandard Banks
  • 06: How Inflation Erodes the Value of Money
  • 07: Hyperinflation Is the Repudiation of Money
  • 08: Saving-The Source of Funds for Investment
  • 09: The Real Rate of Interest
  • 10: Financial Intermediaries
  • 11: Commercial Banks
  • 12: Central Banks
  • 13: Present Value
  • 14: Probability, Expected Value, and Uncertainty
  • 15: Risk and Risk Aversion
  • 16: An Introduction to Bond Markets
  • 17: Bond Prices and Yields
  • 18: How Economic Forces Affect Interest Rates
  • 19: Why Interest Rates Move Together
  • 20: The Term Structure of Interest Rates
  • 21: Introduction to the Stock Market
  • 22: Stock Price Fundamentals
  • 23: Stock Market Bubbles and Irrational Exuberance
  • 24: Derivative Securities
  • 25: Asymmetric Information
  • 26: Regulation of Financial Firms
  • 27: Subprime Mortgage Crisis and Reregulation
  • 28: Interest Rate Policy at the Fed and ECB
  • 29: The Objectives of Monetary Policy
  • 30: Should Central Banks Follow a Policy Rule?
  • 31: Extraordinary Tools for Extraordinary Times
  • 32: Central Bank Independence
  • 33: The Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar
  • 34: Exchange Rates and International Banking
  • 35: Monetary Policy Coordination
  • 36: Challenges for the Future
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Michael K. Salemi

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