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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Money Market

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to the money market.Young scholars will learn about budget deficits, and specifically, the national debt. This resource is designed as a review for the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets: Key Concepts and Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a summary of the key concepts covered in Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Market Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what a market economy is, forms of capitalism and forms of market socialism.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Playing the Stock Market

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Utah Education Network lesson provides directions for engaging students in playing the stock market.
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Other

Pure Capitalism and the Market System: The Market and the 5 Es

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the characteristics of a Market Economy, the state the four fundamental questions faced by any economic system. From an online textbook by Mark Healy of Harper College.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Perfect Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a clear description of the requirements and conditions needed in a market for it to be labeled a perfectly competitive market. The topics of allocative efficiency and productive efficiency are also addressed.
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Other

E Content: Social Media Is Mass Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the shift in thinking about social media as mainly user-generated media to one where social media is seen as a form of mass media, one where companies and marketers control much of the content. (Published: Mar. 14, 2013)
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Iran Contra and Black Monday

For Students 9th - 10th
As Reagan approached the end to his second term, his administration suffered minor setbacks in the final outcomes of the Iran Contra scandal and the Stock Market Crash of 1987.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 18: Causes of Unemployment Around the World

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the nature and causes of unemployment, Analyze the natural rate of unemployment and the factors that affect it, and Identify how undeveloped labor markets can...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Perestroika

For Students 9th - 10th
In these revelations from Russian archives, perestroika is explained. Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling the totalitarian state. Also contains...
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Cato Institute

The Gold Standard: An Analysis of Some Recent Proposals

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes specific and recent proposals set forth to return the U.S. to the gold standard. Includes detailed information on the gold "price rule," "classical" gold standard, and other important terms.
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Other

Groups Urge Bush to Keep Steel Tariffs

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an article by the Pittsburgh Times about groups that are trying to persuade the Bush Administration from revoking the controversial steel tariffs. A great article that describes how the tariffs are a way to help the ailing...
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Details on how the Great Depression affected the nation and how Roosevelt's New Deal created many relief and recovery programs to try to bring economic stability to the nation.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Calming the Panics of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this winning essay on the actions of the Federal Reserve in the 1920s that contributed to the crash of the stock market in 1929, ushering the Great Depression.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 15: Exchange Rates and Intl Capital Flows: Key Concepts

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides summaries for each of the key concepts covered in Chapter 15: Exchange Rates and International Capital Flows from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Cartel

For Students 9th - 10th
This on-line encyclopedia provides the legal definition and examples of a cartel.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 4: 1800 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource provides video lessons and detailed notes for the AP U.S. History Exam. The years 1800-1848 are covered.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 9: The National Saving and Investment Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the determinants of trade and current account balance, Identify and calculate supply and demand for financial capital, Explain how a nation's balance of trade is...

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