Money and Banking : What Everyone Should Know

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Call Number: Adult DVD / Great Courses / Business & Economics / Money and Banking, DVD 332.4 Sa Oversize
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36 lectures with 30 min. each.
Disc 1. The importance of money -- Money as a social contract -- How is money created? -- Monetary history of the United States -- Local currencies and nonstandard banks -- How inflation erodes the value of money -- Disc 2. Hyperinflation is the repudiation of money Saving-the source of funds for investment -- The real rate of interest -- Financial intermediaries -- Commercial banks -- Central banks -- Disc 3. Present value -- Probability, expected value, and uncertainty -- Risk and risk aversion -- An introduction to bond markets -- Bond prices and yields -- How economic forces affect interest rates -- Disc 4. Why interest rates move together -- The term structure of interest rates -- Introduction to the stock market -- Stock price fundamentals -- Stock market bubbles and irrational exuberance -- Derivative securities -- Disc 5. Asymmetric information -- Regulation of financial firms -- Subprime mortgage crisis and reregulation -- Interest rate policy at the Fed and ECB -- The objectives of monetary policy -- Should central banks follow a policy rule? -- Disc 6. Extraordinary tools for extraordinary times -- Central bank independence -- The foreign exchange value of the dollar -- Exchange rates and international banking -- Monetary policy coordination -- Challenges for the future.
Michael K. Salemi, professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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