Record details

• ISBN: 9781598038194
• ISBN: 1598038192
• Physical Description: 18 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 276 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
• Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

36 lectures of 30 min. each.

"Topic: business & economics ; subtopic: business"--Container.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- Hyperinflation is the repudiation of money -- Saving-the source of funds -- The real rate of interest -- Financial intermediaries -- Commercial banks -- Central banks -- 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 -- 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 -- Asymmetric information -- Regulation of financial firms -- Subprime mortgage crissi and reregulation -- Interest rate policy at the Fed and 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 and international banking -- Monetary policy coordination -- Challenges for the future.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer, Michael K. Salemi, professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

System Details Note:

Compact disc.

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Subject:

Money.
Banks and banking.
Finance.
Economics.
Capitalism.
Credit.
Financial crises > United States.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

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