Federal Reserve Bank
Episode 1: Supply
It's all about timing ... when is the right time to raise the price or produce more if supply is low? The first lesson of a 10-part series on economics investigates the supply curve in business. Scholars watch a short video explaining...
Federal Reserve Bank
Episode 8: Market Equilibrium
Scholars research the concept of supply and demand and its overall impact on the balance of the consumer market. The 8th lesson of a 21-part Economic Lowdown podcast series investigates how the availability of an item impacts its price....
Federal Reserve Bank
Episode 7: Supply
A shopper goes to the store for that one special item only to find out it is out of stock. The seventh lesson of a 21-part economic series investigates the concept of supply in the marketplace. Scholars research the supply curve using a...
Federal Reserve Bank
Episode 6: Demand
Have you ever noticed that the price of an item in the store suddenly drops or rises? Historians investigate the concept of demand in the sixth installment of a 21-part Economic Lowdown series explaining aspects of the economy. A podcast...
PBS
Solving the Storage Problem
Clean, renewable energy is there for the taking ... how do we save it until we need it? A short video, part of an energy unit from NOVA, discusses the challenges of creating and storing electrical energy efficiently. The narrator...
Macat
An Intro to Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
How quickly can an economy recover from a shock? John Maynard Keynes challenges the classical economist view of a self-correcting economy with his 1936 work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. A short view...
Crash Course
Labor Markets and Minimum Wage
Can raising the minimum wage lead to unemployment? Young economists watch a rapid-paced video from Crash Course Economics to learn about supply and demand in the labor market and the ways that the minimum wage can both stimulate economic...
Crash Course
Environmental Econ
How does the economy affect the environment—and vice versa? A video from Crash Course Economics discusses the ways supply and demand for products made with non-renewable resources can result in the Tragedy of the Commons, or even in the...
Crash Course
Price Controls, Subsidies, and the Risks of Good Intentions
When prices get too high, the government should put price controls in place, right? Not necessarily. A video from Crash Course Economics explains how price controls can affect the equilibrium price of a product, and potentially lead to a...
Crash Course
Marginal Analysis, Roller Coasters, Elasticity, and Van Gogh
Businesses really do care about your happiness and satisfaction—as long it's higher than their marginal cost. Discover how relative scarcity, marginal utility, and the subjective tastes of consumers determine the price a business...
Crash Course
Inflation and Bubbles and Tulips
If a country needs more money, they should just print more currency, right? Not exactly. Learn about the economic ramifications of inflation and deflation with an engaging video from Crash Course Economics.
Crash Course
Supply and Demand
What do strawberries, gasoline, and human kidneys have in common? Explore the concept of supply and demand, and the varying degrees of demand for particular items in the free market, with an informative video from Crash Course economics.
Curated OER
Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization 2
Sal justifies that the determining factor of inflation and deflation is not the money supply as much as much as it is demand and the raised capacity utilization.
Khan Academy
Floating Exchange Resolving Trade Imbalance
In a hypothetical global trade scenario, Sal lays out an import-export relationship between the United States and China. Through supply-and-demand logic, he describes a situation where the US dollar would weaken, and the Chinese Yuan...
Khan Academy
Currency Exchange Introduction
Learners are introduced to fluctuating currency exchange rates and the role of supply and demand in this context. They understand the inverse relationship between supply and price based on these concepts and view a hypothetical scenario...
Khan Academy
China Buys US bonds, Money, Banking and Central Banks, Finance and Capital Markets
Go further into depth with the China-United States trade scenario, this time investigating what the Chinese government does with the dollars they collect. Sal reminds scholars why the Chinese Central Bank prints Yuan to purchase dollars...
Khan Academy
China Pegs to Dollar to Keep Trade Imbalance
Continuing from the previous video, Sal reviews the China-US trade relationships and the floating currency scenario that should leave the dollar weaker and the Yuan stronger. He explains why the People's Bank of China doesn't want this...
Khan Academy
The Housing Price Conundrum, Current Economics, Finance and Capital Markets
In this video and the next three, Sal examines how the data illustrates the supply and demand in the housing market. Sal examines the theories behind what could drive housing prices to increase faster than the supply-and-demand balance...
Khan Academy
Review of China US Currency Situation
This short clip is essentially just a review of what Sal has discussed in previous videos about the China-US trade situation. He goes over all the details, discussing the trade imbalance and how the Chinese government maintains the...
Khan Academy
Currency Exchange Introduction
Learners are introduced to fluctuating currency exchange rates and the role of supply and demand in this context. They understand the inverse relationship between supply and price based on these concepts and view a hypothetical scenario...
Jacob Clifford
Intro - Resource Markets
What happens in a market when the people who are demanding are not consumers, but businesses? Here is a brief video in which an economics instructor introduces his unit on the resource market, explaining how individuals supply...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concept of Supply
After taking notes, students will view brief video clips to strengthen their knowledge of supply and supply curves.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Economic Basics: Supply and Demand Tutorial
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the laws of supply and demand straight to your fingertips with this brief lesson.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supply and Demand Basics
A series of excellent videos that explain the laws of supply and demand, shortage, surplus, equilibrium, slopes, and shifts. Includes a worksheet (PDF, requires Adobe Reader) and videos.