Economics

Globalization is a worldwide process in which individuals have more and more interactions with people in other countries through trade, investment, and culture.

From WSJ: This chart measures the percentage of home buyers by age from 2006-2018 and demonstrates the seismic impact left by the Great Recession. Questions: Do you hope to own a house someday? When do you hope to be able to buy it?  What would be a good headline to summarize the data in the chart? In what year does there appear to be the most dramatic change in the data?

Exploring the many career prospects for students who are curious, analytical and love a good movement in stock and bond prices.

“It’s not just how much you have—it’s what you do with it,” says one researcher who studies money and happiness.

The next time you go for a job interview, you should spend time brushing up your personality, not just your skill set, a new study from TopInterview and Resume-Library has found.

The FOMC targets an inflation rate of 2%. What does it mean to have an inflation target? And why target a positive number and not zero?

Some of the people struggling the most to pay back their debt are the millions of students who took out student loans but never finished a degree.

Misadventures in Money Management helpspeople improve their financial literacy and financial choices through an interactive graphic novel experience.

The United States treats financial literacy/education like the fancy dishes that are kept locked away in a cabinet until the holidays.

Students need to learn not only about the loans they take out, but also about budgeting, cost of living and expected earnings for specific majors.

Question of the Day Behavioral Finance #13 #1: Which would you choose?

Update: We were excited to see Srijan featured in 2019 in this YouTube video . Thanks for first sharing your story with us, Srijan! Srijan Sharma responded to our recent outreach for student entrepreneurship stories by contacting us to say, “I would love to share my experiences maintaining my online business with the readers of the […]

Three questions that might change how you see yourself.

Shift away from paper money risks leaving young people out of touch with their finances #bestpractice #financialeducation #financialplanning

DEMAND LAW OF DEMAND “More of a good will be bought the lower its price, less will be bought the higher its price, ceteris paribus.” Law of Demand implies that there is an INVERSE relationship between P, Qd – other things staying the same: What would affect your willingness or abil...

When it comes to picking a college, Dave Ramsey says too many students and their families are more focused on attending that all-important "dream school," than seriously considering what student loan debt will do to their lives 20 or 30 years down the line. And that has to change, he says.

Index Funds offer an intoxicating promise: lower fees, diversified risk and better returns. But is there a dark side to their astonishing rise?

This infographic illustrates how the fastest growing and declining retail brands are attempting to stay relevant in the pandemic economy.

The crisis is compressing and accelerating trends that would have taken decades to play out

Crippling student debt in the U.S. has reached a record high of $1.5 trillion nationwide. Today’s map breaks down which states bear the highest burden.

Thom and Mike share a common passion: creating classroom economies to bring economics and personal finance to life for their students. Thom and Mike share their different approaches to bringing this engaging tool into middle and high school classrooms. Enjoy! Details 0:00~2:20 Introduction 2:20~7:31 Thom’s YouTube video class and tips to building engagement 7:31~13:07 Mike’s method of bringing economics to life 13:07~22:39 Tom’s middle school classroom economy 22:39~26:40 How Mike incorporates personal finance concepts in the class 26:40~27:08 A word from NGPF 27:08~28:44 ...

Artificial online banks for families and educators

This free curriculum covers globalization and automation, and then applies those concepts to your personal choices of education and career.