Money and Banking

The Interest Payments on Borrowed Time will Kill You

The BORDERLINE by Gabe Martin


  • Core Links
Aplia
Interactive problem sets, tutorials, and experiments
The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
Mishkin published by Addison Wesley Longman
Money, the Financial System, and the Economy
Hubbard published by Addison Wesley Longman
Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money
Kidwell, Peterson, Blackwell, Whidbee published by Wiley
Free Online Graph Paper
from incompetech dot com
Where's George
United States Currency Tracking Project

  • Supplemental Links
    Academic
Brian loses a Bet on Boxing Match to Stewie
And Stewie really collects
Family Guy cartoon clip
What is Money?
Elizabeth Dunne Schmitt at SUNY Oswego
Commodity Money
from The Coin Collector of Notre Dame
not a Disney product

  • Audio Links
The Year of The Euro
The Connection on WBUR, Show Originally Aired: 1/1/2002
What Makes a Good Central Banker
World Business on the BBC, Broadcast 20th October 2000
Islamic Banking
WBUR News (2002-04-03)
Betting on Terror
The Connection, 8/4/2003
Salt: A World History
The Connection, 3/11/2002
Micro-Lending
The Connection, Thursday, December 30, 2000
The Wired Economy
The Connection, 7/13/2004
Greenspan Says Fed May Cut Rates Again
Morning Edition, July 16, 2003
Lucky 13?
The Connection, 6/25/2003
The Plastic Trap
The Connection, 11/23/2004
Deflation
On Point, Thursday, November 07, 2002
Goodbye Cheap Money
On Point, Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Chapter 11 for Countries
On Point, 2 July 2002?
Housing Market Crash?
On Point, Thursday, April 07, 2005
The Middle of Nowhere
This American Life, 12/5/03: Episode 253
Stories from far away, hard-to-get-to places, where all rules are off, and nefarious things happen because no one's looking, and there's no one to appeal to.
Windfall
This American Life, 10/16/98: Episode 113
What happens when you suddenly strike it rich. And the power money has over our lives, for good and bad.
My Two Cents
This American Life, 4/11/03: Episode 236
We try to figure out the paradox of the current economy, where more and more Americans are simultaneously both losing jobs and buying new homes and cars.
The Return of the American Bank Robber
On Point, 2002 May 15?
New Economy Blues
The Connection, December 20th, 2000
The Dot Bomb
The Connection, September 5th, 2001
Alan Greenspan
The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 3/20/2001
Federal Reservations
The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 4/29/2003
The Next Chapter in B
The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 8/23/2002
Changing Money in China
The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 5/12/2005
China's Currency Unbound
On Point, Thursday, July 21, 2005
Housing Market Crash?
On Point, Thursday, April 07, 2005
Bear vs Bull
On Point, Thursday, March 06, 2003
America's Call to the Mall
On Point, Thursday, February 13, 2003
The Interest Rate Conundrum
On Point, Thursday, June 09, 2005
Calculating the Cost of War
On Point, Wednesday, December 11, 2002
America's Black Markets
On Point, Tuesday, May 06, 2003
American Sucker
On Point, Monday, January 19, 2004
The Midas Formula
BBC > Science & Nature > TV & Radio Follow-up > Horizon , BBC2 9:30pm Thursday 2nd December 1999
Turkey to Drop Currency Zeros to Battle Inflation
Day to Day, NPR, May 5, 2005
The Fed's New Head
On Point, Tuesday, October 25, 2005

  • Supplemental Links
    The Federal Reserve
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Today the Federal Reserve's duties fall into four general areas:
  1. conducting the nation's monetary policy;
  2. supervising and regulating banking institutions and protecting the credit rights of consumers;
  3. maintaining the stability of the financial system; and
  4. providing certain financial services to the U.S. government, the public, financial institutions, and foreign official institutions.
William McChesney Martin Jr., Longtime Fed Chairman, Dies at 91
New York Times , By Melody Petersen
FDIC: Learning Bank
The Learning Bank web site is presented solely to educate and entertain children, teachers, and parents.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
"Promoting sound growth and financial stability in New England and the nation"
FRBB: New England Economic Indicators
is a monthly publication of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Counterfeit Division
United States Secret Service
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
U.S. Department of the Treasury
History of Money
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Dollars and Cents: Fundamental Facts about U.S. Money
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

  • Supplemental Links
    Regional Federal Reserve Banks
Boston
New York City
Life of a Check
Federal Reserve Education aka Fred

  • Supplemental Links
    Stock and Bond Markets
Boston
Boston Stock Exchange
NYSE
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
"The NYSE operates the largest centralized bond market of any U.S. exchange..."
Bureau of the Public Debt
U.S. Department of Treasury
London Stock Exchange
“Dictum Meum PactumE(My Word is My Bond)
The Bond Market Association
"A prime source for information and news about the global fixed-income markets"

  • Supplemental Links
    Yield Curves
ThaiBDC Government Bond Yield Curve
The Thai Bond Dealing Centre
Euro par Yield Curve
Statistical Office of the European Communities

  • Supplemental Links
    Europe
BBC News | Business | Euroland - clickable map
Click on the map to find out more about Euroland - who is in, who is out, and what each country expects from European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
ECB - European Central Bank
European Monetary Institute
Euro 2002 Information Campaign
ECB
Euro notes & coins design
Irish Newspapers - Irish News, News Ireland, Irish Online, Sports, Business, Entertainment

  • Supplemental Links
    Yap
The Isle of Stone Money: Yap, A Peaceful Interlude
A piece of stone money leaning against an old rock platform hidden by ferns and wild plants.
a Pacific Island: Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
scroll down to see the bank
Yap Visitors Center
"Yap is the most intriguing island in Micronesia."
Manta Ray Bay Hotel - Yap, Stone Money
Yap is probably best known among non-divers as the Land of Stone Money.
The Nature's Way - Your Special Tour Guide on the Island of Yap, Micronesia
Culture of Yap

  • Supplemental Links
    Music
Get The Party Started
Written by L. Perry, Background Vocals: Pink
Unofficial Mark Knopfler homepage / Lyrics
Industrial Disease
"Industrial Disease"
Here is a CHordPro version of Dire Straits' song
Industrial Disease
Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control...
Yahoo! Music Experience
Get The Party Started (Radio Mix)
Lycos Music
video
M!ssundaztood
MSN Entertainment - Music

  • Supplemental Links
    Portfolio
BBC Education - Alvin Hall
Investing for all
Virtual Stock Exchange
CBS Market Watch

Join my competition on VirtualStockExchange!

Case Study: Bangladesh's Micro-Loans
Article 22: Right to social security and realisation of economic, social and cultural rights
Grameen Bank in 'strongest position ever'
BBC New World Service: Dr Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank founder
Micro-lenders under pressure
BBC New World Service: Christo Veesar, South Africa's central bank

  • Poetic Links
Street Window
from Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg

  • Supplemental Links
    Central banks
Eastern Caribbean central bank
"It is the Monetary Authority for a group of eight island economies namely - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines."
Bank for International Settlements
List of Central Banks

  • Museum Links
Museum of Money and Financial Institutions
in three Stages: Stage One is this Web site or "virtual" museum.

  • Data Links
Economagic: Economic Time Series Page
The best economic data site with over 100,000 series. Users have the ability to make their own custom charts, XY plots, regressions, and get data in excel files, or in copy & paste format for dumping to other computer programs


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