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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Defines fiscal and monetary policy and highlights their key differences.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Gross Domestic Product
Highlights the basics about GDP.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Saving and Investing
Explains the Rule of 72 with examples of compound interest and its power to help grow students' money.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Economic Systems
Helps students discover the three basic economic questions and how each system answers these questions, identify several key advantages and disadvantages for each economic system, recognize some economic indicators that can measure...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Circular Flow
Explains how resources, goods and services, and payments flow through the economy using the economic model of circular flow.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Price Stability
Highlights the goal of price stability and features price level measures and terminology.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: The Fed Explained
Explains what the Federal Reserve really does and why it focuses on certain aspects of the U.S. economy.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Maximum Employment
Highlights the goal of maximum employment and features labor market measures and terminology.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: The Economy and the Federal Reserve
Infographic explains your role in the economy, the Fed's role in the economy, and how the Fed affects you.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Classroom Economist: Creation of the Fed
In this lesson, students will learn about the early history of the Federal Reserve. They will learn about Jekyll Island's past and about the Panic of 1907, the Aldrich-Vreeland Act, the origins and outcomes of the secret Jekyll Island...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Katrina's Classroom: Lesson 3: A Fresh Start
This lesson examines the benefits and importance of access to credit. Using hands-on learning strategies and internet resources, students will calculate simple interest, learn about different types of credit, evaluate a credit card...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Why Money? [Pdf]
Middle schoolers learn about barter, and the benefits of using money, as they participate in this trading simulation.
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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.
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: M2 Money Stock Seasonally Adjusted
This site from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis provides a table showing the M2 money stock from 1959 to the present.
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis contains information about the bank, services offered by the bank, publications by the bank, information on the Federal Reserve, and much more.
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: How Is the Federal Reserve Structured?
Resource gives an introduction to U.S. Monetary Policy and an explanation of The Federal Reserve System (the Fed) through a series of question subheadings.