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🎧 I Spent 3 Months Breaking Down GDP — Here's What Most People Miss
Breaking down GDP by component and putting it back together with an example from the pandemic
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🎧 Why My Canadian Friend Ditched Our Trip to North Georgia for Cancun
And introduction to exchange rates, how raising interest rates affects exchange rates, how changing exchange rates changes the amount we import and…
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🎧 I Found 5 Imported Items in My Bedroom — Here's What They Teach Us About Trade
Why we import and export goods, the two types of advantage: absolute and comparative
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🎧 The Day I Banned Social Security Debate from My Economics Classroom Forever
How the federal government spends your tax dollars, the concern over the debt, and rising health care costs
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🎧 7 Everyday Things Around You that Your Tax Dollars Paid For
What local, state, and federal governments in the US spend on and invest in
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🎧 Why My Dad’s Old-School Lifestyle Reveals the True Value of Intellectual Property
How Investment spending on intellectual property helps businesses work better
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📜 Employment TOC
How we look at employment and unemployment and why it matters
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📜Inflation Course TOC
How rising prices affect us and the role of the Federal Reserve
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📜GDP series TOC
Explaining what goes into GDP and why it matters
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🎧Investment: The Powerhouse Behind Economic Growth
How spending on physical goods and intellectual property helps the economy grow
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📜 My (Barebones) Table of Contents
No fancy graphics, just a list by topic in "read order"
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🎧 Why Your Big Tax Refund Is Actually A 0% Interest Loan To The Government
Are you getting refunds from the IRS every year? Also saving by building human capital and equity in your home
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