Overview
In many ways money drives almost all of our endeavors. Consider why you want to take this course. You want to obtain knowledge in order to get a better job, to obtain a certificate or other credential, or to be more informed in your daily life so that you can support yourself and provide for those you love. In this course You'll see that anything to with money is connected to financial systems and markets. Even if you are interested in charitable endeavors to improve the human condition, such efforts to support a cause will require money—even indirectly. Understanding how money functions—the different forms it takes and where it goes—is the first step in being able to comprehend our financial system.
About this course
- Find out what the three functions anything we call money needs to serve
- Two different ways to measure the money supply
- Identify factors that impact demand
- How banks act as intermediaries in the financial system
- Tools the Federal Reserve uses to stabilize the banking system and the economy
- Different funding mechanisms available to business to raise capital in order to grow
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