Money

FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION

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Money is any asset that serves as a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value in facilitating economic transactions.

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1. What is Money?
2. The Three Functions
3. Is Bitcoin Money?
4. Commodity Money
5. Representative Money
6. Fiat Money
7. Monetary Aggregates
8. M0, M1, and M2
9. The 2020 Pivot
10. Article: How Does the Federal Reserve Create Money?
11. 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

Propensities & Multipliers

Money Market

Loanable Funds

Deficits, Debt, & Crowding Out

Financial Assets

Balance Sheets & Money Multiplier

Monetary Policy

Policy Interactions

Money Growth & Inflation

Economics Olympiad Prep Modules