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Khan Academy: Basic Capital Structure Differences

9th - 10th
A video [4:00] explaining how different capital structures can affect businesses.
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Khan Academy: Banking 9: More on Reserve Ratios (Bad Sound)

9th - 10th
A video [8:51] explaining how reserve requirements limit the amount of money banks can lend.
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Khan Academy: Banking 8: Reserve Ratios

9th - 10th
A video [10:49] explaining how banks have reserve requirements to keep them from giving out too much money in loans.
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Khan Academy: Banking 7: Giving Out Loans Without Giving Out Gold

9th - 10th
A video [8:29] explaining how banks give out loans based on the gold standard without ever exchanging the actual gold.
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Khan Academy: Banking 6: Bank Notes and Checks

9th - 10th
A video [11:01] explaining the use of bank notes and checks.
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Khan Academy: Banking 5: Introduction to Bank Notes

9th - 10th
A video [8:49] introducing what a bank note is and how it relates to the money we use today.
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Khan Academy: Banking 17: What Happened to the Gold?

9th - 10th
A video [10:12] that explains how America got off the gold standard.
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Khan Academy: Banking 16: Why Target Rates vs. Money Supply

9th - 10th
A video [11:39] that explains the rationale for targeting interest rates instead of directly having a money supply target.
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Khan Academy: Banking 15: More on the Fed Funds Rate

9th - 10th
A video [12:15] that explains the mechanics of the Federal Funds rate and how it increases the money supply.
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Khan Academy: Banking 14: Fed Funds Rate

9th - 10th
A video [11:41] that explains open market operations effect the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight.
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Khan Academy: Banking 13: Open Market Operations

9th - 10th
A video [12:27] that explains open market operations as a tool of the Central Bank to increase the money supply.
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Khan Academy: Banking 12: Treasuries (Government Debt)

9th - 10th
A video [11:18] that introduces government debt and treasuries as well as what it means when we say that Federal Reserve Notes are issued by the Reserve bank but are an obligation of the Government.
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Khan Academy: Banking 11: A Reserve Bank

9th - 10th
A video [11:28] that introduces the idea of a reserve bank.
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Khan Academy: Banking 10: Introduction to Leverage (Bad Sound)

9th - 10th
A video [9:22] that explains what leverage is, why it is good or bad, and how it relates to insolvency.
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Khan Academy: Banking 1

9th - 10th
A video [11:49] that explains how banks make money and the potential value they add to society.
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Khan Academy: Bank Balance Sheets in a Fractional Reserve System

9th - 10th
This video breaks down a bank's balance sheet even further by walking through assets, A video [8:32] that explains how to break down a bank's balance sheet even further by walking through assets, liabilities, equity, required reserves,...
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Khan Academy: Bank Balance Sheet Free Response Question

9th - 10th
A video [8:43] that explains how to solve questions that include analyzing reserve requirements, determining the availability of funds that a bank can loan, and money creation through the fractional reserve bank system.
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Khan Academy: Balloon Payment Mortgage

9th - 10th
A video [3:40] that explores balloon payment mortgages including how they work, pros, and cons.
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Khan Academy: Balance Sheet and Income Statement Relationship

9th - 10th
A video [3:40] that explores the relationship between a balance sheet and an income statement.
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Khan Academy: Balance of Payments: Current Account

9th - 10th
A video [6:29] that explores what is included in the current account balance and what an account deficit is.
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Khan Academy: Balance of Payments: Capital Account

9th - 10th
A video [7:26] that explores how changes in foreign ownership of assets affects balance of payments.
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Khan Academy: Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan

9th - 10th
A video [11:05] explaining how banks bailouts work to save a failing bank.
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Khan Academy: Cnn: Understanding the Crisis

9th - 10th
Video [14:36] of Sal on CNN on October 10th discussing the credit crisis and a potential solution to it.
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Khan Academy: Knights Templar

9th - 10th
The video lesson from Khan Academy provides information for a high school world history course. This lesson provides an overview of the Knights Templar and their role as international banking pioneers during the Crusades.