Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: 2008 Financial Crisis
Provides detailed facts and interesting information about the 2008 Financial Crisis (Credit Crunch) that triggered recession and depression across global economies.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Financial Crisis
In this lesson, young scholars will explore what GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and GDP growth mean, how stock and housing bubbles develop, and the causes and consequences of a housing market crisis. The lesson investigation is supported...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Building Blocks of Keynesian Analysis
Keynesian economics focuses on explaining why recessions and depressions occur and offering a policy prescription for minimizing their effects. The Keynesian view of recession is based on two key building blocks: recessions occur when...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tracking Real Gdp Over Time
Read about fluctuations in Gross National Product (GDP) from year to year.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Phillips Curve in the Keynesian Perspective
Read about how we can use the Keynesian perspective to think about the common tradeoff between low inflation and low unemployment.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: American Automobile Industry Seeks Rescue Plan to Survive
The major automobile companies in the U.S. need to stabilize themselves in this hurting economy. Learn more about it and share discussion questions as a class. December 12, 2008
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Obama Pledges to Halve Deficit, Asks Governors Spend Responsibly
Read and watch President Obama's pledge to cut the U.S. deficit in half by the end of his first term in office by asking governors to spend their stimulus money responsibly.
The White House
The White House: Recovery, Your Money at Work
Explains to everyone what the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is meant to do, track the spending associated with the act, and provide accountability for the act.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Plans Change Dramatically for u.s. Financial Bailout
Students and educators can deepen their knowledge of the bank bailout in the US and how it should be used to stimulate the economy and get businesses back up and running through these activities and lesson plan. November 14, 2008
CNN
Cnn Money: Job Losses Ebb, but Unemployment Up
The USA unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high in August 2009 even though the jobless rate improved. These rates are based on a survey of households while the payroll estimate comes from a survey of employers. This may explain why...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Unemployment in My Hometown
In this lesson plan, students interpret data tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compare national and local unemployment data.
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights: German Hyperinflation, 1923
This site provides great discussion of the causes and effects of the German Hyperinflation of 1923.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Massive Spending Bill Aims to Create Jobs, Strengthen Economy
With fear in the eyes of the nation, NewsHour Extra provides highlights of President Obama's stimulus package followed by discussion questions. February 18, 2009.
University of California
Regional Oral History Office: 1992 Presidential Election
A brief overview of the presidential election of 1992 which included a strong third party candidate, H. Ross Perot. See what the issues were and find out why an incumbent was defeated. Included is a video clip of one of the presidential...
Other
The Medici in Florence: Cosimo Iii and the Decline of the Grand Duchy
Describes the rule of Cosimo III of the Medici family and the resulting decline, both politically and economically of the Grand Duchy in Tuscany.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Mounting Losses
As unemployment continued to climb well into 2001, Jim Lehrer's NewsHour presents an in-depth discussion about unemployment, which sectors of industry it has hit the hardest, and the most recent unemployment trends.
CNN
Cnn Money: Us Unemployment Soars
This site discusses the impact of 911 and how, as the economy worsened in 2001, more and more employers cut jobs amounting to the highest job cuts seen in over 20 years.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Can Deflation Be Prevented?
This is an opinion essay by a faculty member from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) of an article from The Economist. This is a good site for the serious student.