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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Will Greek Austerity Plans Buckle Under Pressure?

Paul Solman examines how Greece's debt woes began and what's being done to contain the problems from spreading throughout Europe...

Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budgeting, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Web Extra: Taleb and Roubini

Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Roubini discuss the great economic debate of the moment: more economic stimulus or less?

Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budgeting, Choice…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Small Business Succeeds In Era of Too Big to Fail

Paul Solman revisits a Missouri manufacturer that has proven small enough to succeed in a time of "too big to...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Goods and Services, Incentive…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Examining the Motivations of the Modern Workforce

Business and Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on what drives people's behavior in the modern workforce.

Key Concepts: Credit, Decision, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Unmasking Interest Rates, Honky-Tonk Style

Paul Solman explains how interest rates are set, with a little help from economic country musician Merle Hazard.

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Dollar's Weakness Inspires Modern-day Gold Rush

As part of his series on Making Sense of the financial crisis, Paul Solman looks at how the dollar's weakness...

Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Investing, Markets and Prices…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The Man Behind the Lehman Brothers Collapse

Paul Solman reports on Lehman Bros.' fall from storied Wall Street investment bank to a catalyst for the worst economic...

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Economic Institutions, Money…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

The Family Vacation

Students will take a surprise trip around the world. As they travel, they will use clues to discover where they...

Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Where the Bailout Money Comes From

Paul Solman explains how the government will produce the money to fund its economic-rescue measures while trying to keep inflation...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy, Money

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Low Consumer Confidence Limits Holiday Spending

Paul Solman looks at the psychological causes and effects of lower consumer confidence through the holiday season.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Consumers, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Banks & Credit Unions (Part I)

Students learn about banks and credit unions, identifying similarities and differences between the two types of financial institution. They also...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 9-12

It's a Not So Wonderful Life

In this lesson students learn about banks and banking. The study the fractional reserve system, and the role the Fed...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Markets and Prices, Money…

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Grades 9-12

WhatDunnit? The Great Depression Mystery | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 30: WhatDunnit? The Great Depression Mystery from CEE's Understanding Economics in U.S....

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Demand…

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Grades 9-12

U.S. Constitution: Rules of the Game | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 9: The U.S. Constitution: Rules of the Game from CEE's Understanding Economics...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Economic Systems, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Why do we need money? Think about Ebay!

The students investigate money--its purpose and functions. They complete an exercise, using the online acution site Ebay, to learn why...

Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Markets, Markets and Prices…

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Grades 6-8

Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO

Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO--Unfamiliar Foreign Objects. That is what currency from another country may look like. Sometimes...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange, Money…

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