Education Resources

General Audience Resources

Econ Ed Live

Looking for opportunities to learn more about economics and personal finance? This award-winning collection of online courses will help bring personal finance and economics lessons to life. Watch as we continue to add new online courses.

To learn more about the courses click the links below.

	Cards, Cars and Currency: Managing Credit Cards, Debit Cards and Buying a Car Cards, Cars and Currency is a set of personal finance programs that encourages participants to learn about three areas of personal finance: credit cards, debit cards and purchasing a car. Cards, Cars and Currency includes five individual programs that can be used together or individually to enhance personal finance learning.
	Comparative Advantage In this course, you will meet Jack Of All Trades, a most awesome superhero. In all tasks, Jack can do everything better and faster (he has absolute advantage), but does that mean he must do everything while the rest of the people stand around helplessly? Find out if justice is served when a formerly idle citizen, Andy, wades through the depths of opportunity cost and the benefits of comparative advantage.
	Currency Crusaders of Justice Jack of All Trades and his best bud, Andy, are traveling the world by cape, having a coffee at each stop. Andy learns that purchasing those coffees using the currencies of their host countries presents a minor complication - the relative value of currencies around the world can change and make those coffees more expensive or less expensive. How does that happen? Stay tuned and you'll learn how economic conditions affect exchange rates...and the price of coffee everywhere.
	GDP & Pizza: Economics for Life GDP and Pizza: Economics for Life is a two-day, online course produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It is designed to help participants in civics, economics and other social studies classes grasp challenging economic content and to explain why these topics are important for citizens to understand.
	Great Depression This unit includes six courses designed to provide economic content to help people understand this significant experience in U.S. history.
	Great Inflation In this course, superhero Jack of All Trades and his sidekick Andy are confronted by a villain that threatens to disrupt society and rob the world of the certainty people have come to expect. And this dastardly villain is...Inflation. Jack and Andy time travel to the period known as The Great Inflation to discover the truth about inflation. With the help of Dr. Equilibrium, professor of economics, they learn that inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few goods and that the Federal Reserve System plays a key role in maintaining stable prices.
	In Plain English: Making Sense of the Federal Reserve Want to learn about the Federal Reserve? Have no fear! In Plain English describes the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System in an easy-to-understand interactive format.
	It's Your Paycheck!: Earning and Managing Your Money It's Your Paycheck! is designed to introduce personal finance content. Course participants learn about a variety of personal finance topics including the link between education and income, budgeting, the benefits of saving, and credit reports. These learning modules will help participants make sense of W-2s, W-4s, pay -day Loans and APRs in an interactive online format. It's Your Paycheck! consists of nine individual programs that can be used together or individually to enhance personal finance learning.
	Soar to Savings Soar to Savings is designed for students in economics and personal finance classes. Students will learn the benefits of saving, tips for saving, and the impact of individual saving on the overall economy. Real-life scenarios, with help from Fred the Frugal Eagle, the St. Louis Fed mascot, will help students better understand opportunity cost, interest, down payments, and financial investment.
	The Story of Unemployment How do we know how many people are unemployed? Why are they unemployed? What can be done to get people back to work? Students get the answers to these and other questions in The Story of Unemployment, including why education might be the best way to avoid unemployment in their futures.
	Time Value of Money The financial security that comes with wealth accumulation requires an understanding of the time value of money. Students begin this course with a lesson on opportunity cost, the most fundamental consideration in any personal financial decision. Students move on to a lesson on interest where they will recognize the importance of interest in sheltering them from the higher cost of living they are certain to experience in later years. The increase in their future costs will be due to inflation, the third subject they will encounter in this program. Students will use their knowledge of opportunity cost, interest and inflation to determine the future value of investments they may make as young adults and the present value of a sum of money they hope to have at a later date.