News Clip0:40
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Venezuela's newest banknotes with six fewer zeros

9th - Higher Ed
Images of Venezuela's new currency, the bolivar, issued by the inflation-battered country which slashed six zeros off old notes of the bolivar soberano (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
News Clip4:09
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Lebanese block a highway with burning tires during a protest in Beirut

9th - Higher Ed
Lebanese protesters block a highway and burn tires during a protest in the capital Beirut, as the country struggles with a deep economic crisis (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
News Clip2:13
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Cubans react to government decision to buy USD at black market rate

9th - Higher Ed
Cubans react to the government's decision to allow banks and exchange houses to buy dollars at 120 Cuban pesos, a rate similar to that of the black market, a mechanism designed to capture foreign currency (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
News Clip1:58
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Cubans flock to buy foreign currency from the State

9th - Higher Ed
Cubans line up in front of a bureau de change on the first day of foreign currency sales in Cuba after a year (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
News Clip2:11
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Analyst comments as yen sinks to lowest level vs dollar since 1990

9th - Higher Ed
The falling yen hit 150 per dollar for the first time since 1990 on Thursday, driven down by the contrast between Japanese monetary easing and aggressive US interest rate hikes (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
News Clip4:35
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Salameh admits official exchange rate obsolete

9th - Higher Ed
Lebanon's official exchange rate pegged at 1,500 pounds to the US dollar is obsolete, Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Instructional Video10:06
Khan Academy

Currency Effect on Trade Review

11th - Higher Ed
Sal reviews the hypothetical global trade scenario from the last video in detail for about the first six minutes, changing a few numbers to make for a cleaner example. He continues the scenario to demonstrate how the natural ups and...
Instructional Video10:36
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Crash Course

Money and Finance

9th - 12th Standards
Chances are, the teenagers in your economics class have some experience with money. Help them understand that money is more than the dollars and coins they feed into the school vending machines with a video from Crash Course economics....
Instructional Video3:49
Jacob Clifford

Foreign Exchange Practice

11th - 12th Standards
Task your young economists with practicing how to identify who demands and supplies dollars in foreign exchanges, as well as recognizing the four shifters of the foreign exchange market and their effect in given scenarios.
Instructional Video5:07
Jacob Clifford

Foreign Exchange (FOREX)

11th - 12th Standards
Explain the supply and demand for different currencies using this video, in which a savvy economics instructor breaks down the macroeconomic concept of foreign exchange with graphs, illustrations, and an approachable teaching...
Instructional Video6:52
Khan Academy

Pegging the Yuan, Money, Banking and Central Banks, Finance and Capital Markets

11th - Higher Ed
Sal reviews the hypothetical currency balance between China and the US under an ideal market scenario, then explains the Chinese government's motivations (both optimistic and more cynical) to prevent the Yuan from appreciating and...
Instructional Video4:06
Khan Academy

Floating Exchange Resolving Trade Imbalance

11th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video12:24
Khan Academy

Debt Loops Rationale and Effects

11th - Higher Ed
Now that scholars understand more about currency imbalance and artificially suppressed currency, Sal discusses the motivations of the different actors. He briefly touches on the difficulty of unwinding a cycle like this once it has...
Instructional Video3:12
Khan Academy

Data on Chinese M1 Increase in 2010

11th - Higher Ed
To prove the points about the Chinese-US trade imbalance Sal made in previous videos, he presents documentation from the Chinese Central Bank that shows the M1 money supply every month. He compares the total Yuan supply from November...
Instructional Video2:51
Khan Academy

China Buys US bonds, Money, Banking and Central Banks, Finance and Capital Markets

11th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:01
Khan Academy

China Pegs to Dollar to Keep Trade Imbalance

11th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:36
Khan Academy

Review of China US Currency Situation

11th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video12:24
Khan Academy

Debt Loops Rationale and Effects

11th - Higher Ed
Now that scholars understand more about currency imbalance and artificially suppressed currency, Sal discusses the motivations of the different actors. He briefly touches on the difficulty of unwinding a cycle like this once it has...