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TTC - Money Banking - What Everyone Should Know
English | 36 WebRips (MP3) + Guidebook (PDF) | Business | 751.49 MB

From the invention of coins by the ancient Lydians to the 21st-century eurozone, human history tells the story of ingenious financial systems the never-ending quest for economic solutions. Today, our global economy is both fascinating dizzyingly complex - challenging even experts to comprehend it fully. But one thing remains clear: Money finance play a deeply fundamental role in your life.

Money is a social contract that affects the decisions of nations individuals.

Our financial institutions drive our political systems the growth of nations.

money banking are indispensable in both your daily financial transactions your most essential long-term plans. A working knowledge of money banking systems is critically useful in several ways:

It helps you underst the complex often bewildering world of finance.

It helps you to "read" the current economic climate, to make sense of what you see in the media, to gauge where the economy is headed.

It gives you key insights into society the economic issues in life.

It allows you to comprehend integral aspects of history the way civilization developed.

Speaking to all of this in Money Banking: What Everyone Should Know, economist award-winning Professor Michael K. Salemi of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads you in a panoramic exploration of our monetary financial systems, their inner workings, their crucial role presence in your world. In 36 incisive detailed lectures, he gives you a penetrating look at the financial institutions that are fundamental to your life well-being. Beginning with the colorful history of money, including the monetary history of the United States, you investigate pivotal topics, including:

- the crucial role of public confidence in the stability of our financial system;
- how money is created by commercial central banks;
- how "Wall Street" "Main Street" are inextricably intertwined, each requiring the success of the other;
- the dramatic history causes of hyperinflation;
- the uses of "local" currencies nontraditional monetary systems;
- the thorny problem of financial firms that are deemed "too big to fail," why being named "TBTF" gives firms an incentive to engage in risky investments;
- the irrational psychology of stock market "bubbles," in which investing becomes speculative gambling;
- why the value of the dollar depends on interest rates elsewhere in the world.

Dr. Salemi reveals all of this more as a great rousing human story, with remarkable details of how financial systems came into being, the problems they're designed to solve, how they've evolved changed. While those with knowledge of economics will find rich depth in these lectures, the course is also a welcoming entry for those with no background in finance.

Course Lecture Titles:

The Importance of Money
Money as a Social Contract
How Is Money Created?
Monetary History of the United States
Local Currencies Nonstard Banks
How Inflation Erodes the Value of Money
Hyperinflation Is the Repudiation of Money
Saving—The Source of Funds for Investment
The Real Rate of Interest
Financial Intermediaries
Commercial Banks
Central Banks
Present Value
Probability, Expected Value, Uncertainty
Risk Risk Aversion
An Introduction to Bond Markets
Bond Prices Yields
How Economic Forces Affect Interest Rates
Why Interest Rates Move Together
The Term Structure of Interest Rates
Introduction to the Stock Market
Stock Price Fundamentals
Stock Market Bubbles Irrational Exuberance
Derivative Securities
Asymmetric rmation
Regulation of Financial Firms
Subprime Mortgage Crisis Reregulation
Interest Rate Policy at the Fed ECB
The objectives of Monetary Policy
Should Central Banks Follow a Policy Rule?
Extraordinary Tools for Extraordinary Times
Central Bank Independence
The Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar
Exchange Rates International Banking
Monetary Policy Coordination
Challenges for the Future