Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Price Stability
Highlights the goal of price stability and features price level measures and terminology.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Maximum Employment
Highlights the goal of maximum employment and features labor market measures and terminology.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Trade: Why Do Nations Trade?
Basics from key terminology to why we trade are featured alongside introductions to foundational concepts such as production possibilities frontiers, absolute and comparative advantage, trade barriers, and free trade versus protectionism.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Arts and Economics
Highlights the vital role the arts play in our economy using key economic concepts like gross domestic product and employment. Incorporating data from a variety of primary sources, this infographic strives to capture the economic...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Why Prepare for the Unexpected?
Identifies the steps students need to take when developing their own plans for being financially prepared for emergencies.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Why Is Good Credit Important?
Introduces students to the relationships among credit history, credit report, and credit score and shows how essential maintaining a good credit history is to financial stability.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Economics U$a: 21st Century Edition
A micro and macroeconomics course for 21st century learners. 28 half-hour videos sessions with text and guides regarding markets, firms, supply and demand, perfect competition and inelastic demand, economic efficiency, monopolies,...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Interview With Betty Friedan
An interview with Betty Friedan with a general introduction to her writings; discusses her thoughts on economic issues facing women.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Multipliers and the Mystery of the Magic Money
Young scholars learn about the purpose of the reserve requirement, how money is "created" in the economy through fractional reserves, and how the Federal Reserve uses the reserve requirement and loans to correct economic instability.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 14: How a Central Bank Executes Monetary Policy
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the reason for open market operations, evaluate reserve requirements and discount rates, and interpret and show bank activity through balance sheets.
The Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board: Structural Changes in the Economy and Financial Markets
This site has a speech given by Alan Greenspan December 5, 2000. It discusses the economic changes the United States had undergone in the 1990s. The reading is sophisticated, but some of the information is written to be accessible to...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: 14: Monetary Policy & Bank Regulation: Key Concepts and Summary
This section provides a summary of all of the key concepts in Chapter 14: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
Curated OER
Federal Reserve Districts in United States
This page from the Federal Reserve Board provides a map of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts with addresses, phone numbers, and links to the following Federal Reserve Banks: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta,...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: What Does the Fed Do?
This collection of lesson materials focuses on how the Federal Reserve System works. Students will learn how banking systems work and what a fractional reserve banking system is.
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Doug Levinson: What Gives a Dollar Bill Its Value?
The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that decision, and how does their choice affect the economy at large? Doug Levinson takes a trip into the United States Federal Reserve,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Rising or Falling Interest Rates Might Affect You
Content brought to you by our partner, Better Money Habits. Explains interest rates as related to personal finance by actions of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Civil War Money
Resource gives a history of money through the Civil War. It includes information about what influenced types of money to be made, Confederate currency, and Union currency.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Why Money? [Pdf]
Young scholars learn about barter, and the benefits of using money, as they participate in this trading simulation.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Currency
A description of several features on the United States paper currency. Shows enlarged areas of U.S. currency to aide in learning.
Other
Economic History Services: The Panic of 1907
Find out what a bank panic is and read about why the bank panic of 1907 was one of the worst in U.S. history.
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: History at Your Fingertips [Pdf]
Describes the history of paper money in the U.S. since it was first issued in 1690, and explains how paper currency is also a reflection of American history.
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...
Other
House Committee on Financial Services
This website describes the House Committee on Financial Services. The chairman of this committee is Michael G. Oxley. "The Committee oversees the entire financial services industry, including the securities, insurance, banking and...