Financial Assets

FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION

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Financial assets are claims on future income or value, such as stocks, bonds, and bank deposits, that represent ownership or a creditor relationship.

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1. What are Financial Assets?
2. Meet the Big Three
3. Liquidity and Rate of Return
4. Risk and the Unavoidable Tradeoffs
5. How Bonds Work
6. The Seesaw Effect
7. Why Hold Money?
8. Interest Rates and Money Demand
9. Article: Why Economics Doesn’t Teach How to Pick Stocks
10. Advanced Practice

Additional Monetary and Fiscal Policy Modules

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Economics Olympiad Prep Modules

Use these modules to prepare for success in the Economics Olympiad competition.

FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION

Prepare for the Economics Olympiad Competition

Course curriculum

Content

Additional Monetary and Fiscal Policy Modules

Fiscal Tools & Automatic Stabilizers

Money

Money Market

Loanable Funds

Deficits, Debt, & Crowding Out

Propensities & Multipliers

Balance Sheets & Money Multiplier

Monetary Policy

Policy Interactions

Money Growth & Inflation

Economics Olympiad Prep Modules