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Global Economics-Global Exchange: Free Trade & Protection – This informative 30-minute video illustrates that societies have traded for thousands of years. However, the last 35 years have seen an explosion in world trade. How has this global integration affected the world’s economy and individual markets and how are the overall gains of world trade distributed?
Global Economics-Global Capital Market: Risks and Rewards – Another 30-minute video explaining how today’s world economy is becoming increasingly integrated. But what are the advantages and disadvantages of financial liberalization and why it has been so controversial?
Global Economics-Economic Development: A Global Challenge - This 30-minute episode examines the dynamics of economic development. What makes it happen and why do so many countries lag so far behind?
Globalization: The Haves and Have Nots - The city is besieged by 40,000 labour, environmental and human rights activists, claiming the WTO puts too much emphasis on ‘free’ rather than ‘fair’ trade. Not since the Industrial Revolution has the workPlace been so dramatically restructured. Globalization has been a triumph for the corporate giants and for e-commerce. But the explosion of international trade has also meant jeopardising jobs, forcing out local industries and an ever greater impact on the natural world. The scale of the Seatle protests took the world by surprise and was proof for many that it’s time to re-examine the global economic machine. This is a ten minute excerpt. To view/purchase the full 40-minute film, click here.
Financial Literacy Tips from CPAs – A short video featuring tips on how to save and budget your money from CPAs.
HSBC National Center Launch - The dedcation of the National Economic Center has been created to be a hub for innovative and up-to-date teaching materials and programs in economic and financial education. These new programs will be piloted, field-tested, researched and evaluated here.
A Council on Foreign Relations World Economic Update- This video, by the Council on Foreign Relations, delves deep and assesses the damages to inflationary pressures, exports/imports, consumption growth, global credit growth and decline, commodity and oil prices, etc. to the U.S. and the rest of the world’s economic state.
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Why We Should Teach ‘Personal Financial Education’ (Financial Literacy) in Schools – This fun and educational video illustrates may statistics about the typical American family’s financial health and ways to improve it. This video is sure to raise classroom discussion. For example, the average family will spend 14.66% of their monthly income on transportation.
Bob Duvall Interview Fox Business News, October 30, 2008 – Robert Duvall, President of the National Council on Economic Education, gives tips for financial literacy in this Fox News interview. He also was chosen to ring the closing bell for the NASDAQ that day.
CNN Interview: National Economics Challenge Finals – Vestavia Hills High School in Alabama wins!
Road to Financial Literacy – Junior Achievement’s Finance Park gives students a glimpse of the “real world” with hands-on experiences and learning opportunities that allow them to be an adult for a day, such as buying a house, setting monthly spending budgets or paying car payments.
Economics 101: Consumer Price Index – A short informative clip explaining the CPI with NEWSWEEK’s Daniel Gross.