Money and banking What everyone should know

Michael K. Salemi

Sound recording - 2012

Examines the idea of money as a social contract and discusses how financial institutions and markets work.

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Published
[Chantilly, VA] : Teaching Co [2012]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Teaching Company
Main Author
Michael K. Salemi (-)
Corporate Author
Teaching Company (-)
Edition
[PDF workbook version]
Item Description
"The Great courses, Topic: Business & economics ; Subtopic: Business"--Cover.
"Course no. 5630"--Disc labels.
36 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format.
Physical Description
18 compact discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
ISBN
9781490650616
  • Disc 1. The importance of money
  • Money as a social contract
  • Disc 2. How is money created?
  • Monetary history of the United States
  • Disc 3. Local currencies and nonstandard banks
  • How inflation erodes the value of money
  • Disc 4. Hyperinflation is the repudiation of money
  • Saving-the source of funds for investment
  • Disc 5. The real rate of interest
  • Financial intermediaries
  • DIsc 6. Commercial banks
  • Central banks
  • Disc 7. Present value
  • Probability, expected value, and uncertainty
  • Disc 8. Risk and risk aversion
  • An introduction to bond markets
  • Disc 9. Bond prices and yields
  • How economic forces affect interest rates
  • Disc 10. Why interest rates move together
  • The term structure of interest rates
  • Disc 11. Introduction to the stock market
  • Stock price fundamentals
  • Disc 12. Stock market bubbles and irrational exuberance
  • Derivative securities
  • Dsic 13. Asymmetric information
  • Regulation of financial firms
  • Disc 14. Subprime mortgage crisis and reregulation
  • Interest rate policy at the Fed and ECB
  • Disc 15. The objectives of monetary policy
  • Should central banks follow a policy rule?
  • Disc 16. Extraordinary tools for extraordinary times
  • Central bank independence
  • Disc 17. The foreign exchange value of the dollar
  • Exchange rates and international banking
  • Disc 18. Monetary policy coordination
  • Challenges for the future.