📜 My (Barebones) Table of Contents

No fancy graphics, just a list by topic in "read order"

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If you’re new to Economics for the Rest of Us, this may help. For the four main series, GDP, Inflation, and Employment, they are listed in the order published. For those of you who’ve been here for a while, you should more easily find what you’re looking for.

Table of Contents

“Hero” post: on the way

Policy

Market Failure and Externalities 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/may-the-force-be-with-you

🎧 Market Failure and Externalities 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-plastic

🎧 General Economic Policy: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/who-you-gonna-call

Tariffs 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/how-much-will-you-pay-under-the-new

Tariffs 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/why-tariffs-arent-a-good-ideaGDP series

GDP Series

1. Table of Contents: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/gdp-series-toc

2. 🎧 Preview: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/preview-for-the-thursday-classroom

3. 🎧 Consumption: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/would-you-buy-a-pair-of-300-socks

4. 🎧 Workers: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/i-owe-i-owe-its-off-to-work-i-go

5. 🎧 Household Savings 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/is-household-saving-bad-for-the-economy

6. 🎧 Household Savings 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-hidden-ways-americans-save

7. 🎧 Investment 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/investment-the-powerhouse-behind

8. 🎧 Investment 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/why-my-dads-old-school-lifestyle

9. 🎧 Government Spending and Investment (local and state): https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/7-everyday-things-around-you-that

10. 🎧 Government Spending and Investment (federal): https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-day-i-banned-social-security

11. 🎧 Exports and Imports: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/i-found-5-imported-items-in-my-bedroom

12. 🎧 Exchange Rates: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/why-my-canadian-friend-chose-a-trip

13: 🎧 Wrap Up: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/i-spent-3-months-breaking-down-gdp

Prices

1. The Price of a Car Accident: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-the-1000-car-accident

2. Gasoline prices and a trip down memory lane: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/what-a-trip-to-see-my-grandfather

3. Chocolate Prices: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/chocaholicswhy-youre-fix-isnt-getting

4. Exchange Rates: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-time-i-bought-manga-from-japan

5. (Car prices) https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-great-car-switcheroo-of-2022

6. (Car prices 2) https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-great-car-switcheroo-part-2

7. Concert Ticket and Gasoline Prices: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/barbies-and-swifties-and-gasoline

Crash Course on Inflation—read in this order

1. Table of Contents: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/inflation-course-toc

2. Sticky Prices: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/why-inflation-upsets-us-pt-1-sticky

3. Deflation: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-deflation

4. The Cost of Inflation 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/a-penny-here-a-penny-there

5. The Cost of Inflation 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/feeling-the-pinch-of-inflation

6. How Inflation Affects Households Differently: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/different-people-different-inflation

7. The CPI: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/when-is-an-apple-not-just-an-apple

8. https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/three-cats-two-butter-huggers-and

9. Supply Shocks 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/shocking-news

10. Supply Shocks 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/who-declares-global-pandemic

11. The Role of Interest Rates: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/but-thats-the-lowest-rate-i-ever

12. Understanding the Role of Banks: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/in-balance

13. The Federal Funds Rate: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/one-rate-to-rule-them-all

14. How the Federal Reserve Works: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/magic-the-gathering-cards-and-government

Employment in the US

1. Table of Contents: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/employment-toc

2. Immigration and Employment: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/how-henry-ford-got-new-workers

3. Who is Unemployed: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/it-all-started-with-an-argument

4. Measuring Unemployment: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-real-unemployment-rate

5. The Economic Hardships Recessions Cause: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/tough-times

6. Ways to Improve Chances of Employment: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/what-are-you-gonna-do-about-unemployment

7. Changing Employment Patterns 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/why-you-cant-find-work-in-a-good

8. Changing Employment Patterns 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/trouble-finding-that-new-job-some

9. (Earlier post) https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/quiz-time-who-is-unemployed

General Advice

1. (Home buying #1) https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/buying-a-home-heres-what-you-need

2. (Home buying #2) https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/buying-a-home-heres-what-you-need-3d6

3. The Seinfeld Strategy: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/using-the-seinfeld-strategy-to-turn

4. The Value of Rest: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/chilling-out-on-taking-a-break

Writing Advice

1. These posts are also on Pen2Profit:

2. Part 1: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/how-not-to-write-a-nonfiction-book-002

3. Part 2: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/how-not-to-write-a-nonfiction-book

Snapshots of the Economy—2024

1. https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-fallingor-is-it

2. https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/quiz-time-who-is-unemployed

Other

1. I Married a Nerd: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/did-you-hear-the-one-about

2. I Married a Nerd: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/no-i-wont-fix-your-computer

3. With a video of my grandson: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/is-it-friday-yet

4. Tax Stories: https://nikkifinlay.substack.com/p/this-is-the-irs-welcome-to-2024