Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 13: Money and Banking: How Banks Create Money
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Utilize the money multiplier formulate to determine how banks create money, analyze and create T-account balance sheets, evaluate the risks and benefits of money and banks.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Focus on Economic Data
This lesson focuses on the May 1, 2013, press release by the Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on the current Federal Reserve monetary policy actions and goals, and specifically, the federal fund's rate...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: One Is Silver and the Other's Gold
Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the 1896 presidential election (Bryan vs. McKinley, Free Silver vs. Gold Standard) and examine a political cartoon that depicts...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Monetary Policy
Learn about monetary policy, the steps the central bank of a nation can take in order to regulate the nation's money supply.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Banking and the Expansion of the Money Supply
This lesson summary from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking the AP Macroeconomics course. In this lesson summary will review key terms and calculations related to fractional reserve banking, required reserves, excess...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Money Growth and Inflation
Practice what you know about the equation of exchange, the quantity theory of money, and the relationship between the money supply and inflation in this four-question exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Definition, Measurement, and Functions of Money
Practice and gain better understanding of the money supply and the purpose of money.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in the Money Market
Practice what you have learned about how changes in the demand for money and/or the money supply affect the nominal interest rate in this seven-problem exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Public Policy and Economic Growth
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and concepts related to how policymakers can influence economic growth. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level...
Curated OER
Biz/ed: Inflation and Money
Summarizes the theory that inflation is related to excessive monetary growth, and the origins of this theory. Links to the Quantity Theory of Money.
Other
Bank Reserves and the Money Supply
This article, from a larger study titled "Money: What It Is and How It Works," explains the fractional reserve system, which requires banks to hold a certain amount of their deposits as cash. Covers reserve requirements, factors...