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| Building
Wealth: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial
Future |
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This updated
and expanded booklet offers strategies on setting
financial goals, budgeting, saving and investing,
debt management and insurance. |
Building
Wealth in the Classroom |
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These lesson plans are designed to facilitate the use of Building Wealth in high school classes. The lessons use a variety of instructional techniques and include student activities, handouts and presentation visuals. |
Building
Wealth CD-ROM |
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Order the CD-ROM version of "Building Wealth: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future." |
Globalization |
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Discusses the increasing integration of the world's economies through the flow of goods, money and people across national borders. Includes a discussion of foreign currency exchange and a timeline of innovations that furthered globalization. |
Entrepreneurs |
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Introduces the critical role entrepreneurs play in the economy and highlights the accomplishments of well-known entrepreneurs featured in profiles throughout the text. |
International Trade |
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Examines the benefits of specialization and trade, using the economic principles of absolute and comparative advantage. It also discusses protectionism and worldwide efforts to open trade. |
Everyday
Economics |
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A series of colorful booklets
explaining fundamental economic concepts for high
school students. |
Free
Enterprise: The Economics of Cooperation |
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Looks at how communication,
coordination and cooperation interact to make free
markets work. Provides an understanding of our economic
system—one that encourages both individual
freedom and social cooperation. |
Economic
Research Publications |
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The Dallas Fed
provides several publications that encompass a
broad range of economic research topics. |
Webcasts
Evening at the Fed: Webcast for Educators
The recently passed Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act represents lawmakers' attempt to reform the financial regulatory structure in response to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In this presentation, Federal Reserve Research Officer Ken Robinson will trace the history of bank regulation in the U.S., how it has been shaped by financial turmoil and the possible consequences of the regulatory structures that have evolved.
Conversation with the Chairman
"Conversation with the Chairman" was a unique opportunity to join colleagues from across the country to learn from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. During this event, Bernanke addressed teachers nationwide via videoconference.
Question and Answer Session with Harvey Rosenblum and Jeff Gunther
Dallas Fed economists Harvey Rosenblum, executive vice president and director of research, and Jeff Gunther, vice president, spoke at the Dallas Fed after the Chairman's remarks and addressed additional questions from attendees.
Publications
at Other Federal Reserve Banks
High School
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Banking
Basics (FRB Boston)
Provides an overview of the banking system for young
people. Topics include check clearing, currency
circulation, methods of payment, electronic banking
and the role of the Federal Reserve. Designed for
students with an understanding of the U.S. banking
system. |
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Comic
Book Series (FRB New York)
Designed for students, this series presents a lively
and easy-to-understand look at the Fed and the economy. |
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Currency and the Fed (FRB St. Louis) 
Students consider who is pictured on the different denominations of U.S. currency and why, identify and explain the functions of money, and learn some basic facts about money and the Federal Reserve System. |
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Economic Quiz (FRB Boston)
The economic quiz is designed to test your knowledge of economics. Topics include the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, international economies, fiscal policy, housing, and many others. |
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FedPoints (FRB New York)
A reference series explaining the structure and
functions of the Federal Reserve System and the
economic concepts relevant to its work. |
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History
of Central Banking (FRB Philadelphia)
Describes the history of central banking in the
United States from 1791 through deregulation. |
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In
Plain English (FRB St. Louis)
A guide to the Federal Reserve System, introducing
who we are and what we do. Includes DVD, booklet
and other features. |
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Katrina's Classroom: Financial Lessons from a Hurricane (FRB Atlanta)
A four-part video-based curriculum designed to teach middle and high school students some of the most important aspects of financial responsibility. Students will meet three families who survived Hurricane Katrina and, because of previous financial planning, are in the process of rebuilding their lives. Told from the perspective of a young person, each story generates powerful insights about the need for financial responsibility. |
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Money
in Motion (FRB Philadelphia)
"Money in Motion" is a new financial and
historical exhibit that is free, fun and interactive.
The exhibit's 16 displays feature interactive games,
rare artifacts and historical narrative that trace
the history of money and central banking in the
United States. Lesson plans are available. |
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Show Business: The Economics of Entertainment (FRB Boston)
A learning activity on economics and the entertainment industry that provides an additional tool for teaching and learning about basic economic concepts and some economic history. |
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Elementary and Middle School Classroom Resources |
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Federal
Reserve System Publications Catalog
(FRB New York)
View, order and/or subscribe to public
information materials for students, teachers and
the general public. |
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