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Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing our society.

This video will share tips on how you can prioritize your debt and make a plan to eliminate it.

Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid with money. When you sell something, the buyer gives you money. Sometimes it’s a lot of money and sometimes it’s just a little money. How much money you are given depends on how mu…

In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information in making their decisions. First, students gather information on…

Students explore fiscal policy remedies used by the federal government to reduce volatile fluctuations in the business cycle.

In this lesson, updated with 2023 statistics, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal Ship simulation.

In this economics lesson, students will analyze arguments concerning income and corporate taxes and the impact of national debt.

In this lesson, students will learn about a speculative bubble within the context of the U.S. real estate market.

Updated with new statistics! The students examine economic data in order to predict the results of presidential elections.