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Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Financing [Pdf]
In book 2 from the Building Your Future series, students and teachers get resources and practice on how financing works, such as getting loans and buying insurance.
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Financial Fiction Genre: Banking and Finance in Lit.
Money and finance has played a role in fiction since Chaucer's Reeve's Tale. This interesting page points out some of the works in which money and/or finance plays a pivotal role.
C-SPAN
C Span Classroom: Teaching About Campaign Finance
Learning module teaches students how political candidates fund their campaigns. Through wathcing videos and reading related articles on money in politics, students will form their own opinion and participate in classroom deliberations on...
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Finance Authority of Maine: Claim Your Future
This game can be played individually or as a class. Students make adult decisions about spending money, based on income from a particular career. This could help students decide on a career, as well as learning how to budget their...
PBS
Now With Bill Moyers: Campaign Finance (Lesson Plan)
A lesson that takes students through the process of examining the finances of political campaigns. They will review internal documents to determine if wealthy contributors buy government influence, assess the pros and cons of campaign...
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Government Financing Programs
Government loans are described with links to more detailed information on different types of loans.
Econoclass
Econoclass: International Finance Classroom Simulation
In this classroom activity, students are divided into various groups, each being a different "country." Each country has their own currency and goods, and groups proceed to trade amongst themselves. This game covers the topics of...
Federal Reserve Bank
American Currency Exhibit: Confederate Currency: Financing the Confederacy
Provides general information on the Confederate notes issued to Southerners during the Civil War. Pictures of the notes and a historical context.
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Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of national and international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
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123 Jump
This site provides a vast amount of information from which students can research investment options. The focus is on IPOs (Initial Public Offering). Presents a great learning opportunity for students interested in finance.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: The Medicare System
The resource explores the structure and financing of the Medicare system. Topics featured are how Medicare works, financing, who runs Medicare, and the program's history. (2006-2007)
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Foreign Exchange Market
In this lesson plan summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to the market for foreign exchange (FOREX). This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level macroeconomics...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using a Person's Budget to Understand the Balance of Payments
Just like a personal budget, the balance of payments uses the sources of funds and uses of funds to track the movement of money. In this article, we use a young wizard's budget to make the balance of payments more relatable. This...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Effect of Changes in Policies/economic Conditions on Foreign Exch
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to how changes in economic policies or conditions can affect the foreign exchange market. This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Real Interest Rates and International Capital Flows
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to how relative differences in real interest rates change the flow of assets between countries. This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
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Complaints About Wealthy Donors' Influence on Candidates
An article that discusses the Pendleton Act of 1883, both historically and in the context of modern politics.
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Carl Sandburg High School: Financial Aid Resources
Are you looking for information about financial aid? This college/career guidance page has an extensive listing of online financial aid resources.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: National Bank Acts of 1863 and 1864
This essay describes the purposes and effects of the National Bank Acts of 1863 and 1864.
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Austin Community College: Herbert Hoover's Tragic Presidency
Austin Community College provides "A More Balanced Historical Perspective," an article that looks at Herbert Hoover's administration and his response to the Great Depression.
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Us News: Money: Reasons Community College Makes Sense Right Now
As the cost of a college education continues to rapidly rise, many more young people are considering the advantages of beginning their higher education experiece at a community college. Read about the most common reasons here.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Information
The Federal Trade Commission has developed helpful investment articles and videos to assist consumers in making educated decisions about how they spend, manage and invest their money.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Henry R. Kravis
A biography of Henry R. Kravis, a highly successful investment banker and a philanthropist. Kravis has been instrumental in negotiating massive corporate acquisitions with the biggest companies in America. Includes a profile, videos, and...
Harp Week
Harp Week: Presidential Elections: 1908 Taft v. Bryan Overview
What a great resource this is. The four-page oveview of the campaign of 1908 begins with a review of the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Read about the nomination of William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's acolyte, sure to carry on the...
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Great Depression 1929 1932: President Hoover's Response
Examines how Herbert Hubert responded to the crisis of the Great Depression and his personal belief system that caused him to respond that way. Also looks at how governments at other levels addressed the Great Depression, and why most...
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