I. Personal Decision Making
- ‘SMART’ Financial Goal-setting
- Advantages and Pitfalls of Using Cash and Prepaid Cards
- Alternative Choices — Understanding Opportunity Costs
- At The Margins: What Is Something Worth to You?
- Avoiding Common Bank Fees
- Balance Sheet
- Bounded Rationality–Everyone Makes Mistakes
- Bringing It All Together: Using the concepts of scarcity, utility, opportunity costs and risk to manage a car dealership
- Budgeting for College Life
- Buying and Leasing Cars
- Common Cents: A Lesson about Getting Banked or Staying Unbanked
- Comparing Auto Loans
- Comparing Job Offers: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- Comparing Student Loans
- Comparison Shopping Big-ticket Items
- Consumerism and Scarcity
- Emotional vs. Rational Brain
- Financial Decision-making: Car Ownership
- Financial Planning for Jane
- Fringe Banking and Predatory Lenders
- Game Theory–Strategies and Payoffs
- How to Minimize Student Loan Debt
- Identity Theft
- Jobs and Money Lesson 3: What’s Yours and What’s Not: Paychecks and Deductions
- Jobs and Money: The New Job Market
- Limited Resources — Thinking about Choice and Scarcity
- Managing Your Finances with Mobile Phones
- Money in the Bank: Getting to Your Money
- Money in the Bank: Your Best Interest
- Money in the Bank: Your Best Interest 2
- Multiple Choice — What Is My Best Alternative?
- Opportunity Costs: What is My Best Alternative?
- Portfolio Management
- Preparing for an Automobile Accident
- Risks and Rewards: Dealing with Uncertainty
- Risky Business — Dealing with Uncertainty
- Selling School — Putting It All Together
- Should You Buy a House?
- Strategies Businesses Use to Influence Buying Decisions
- The Amazing Race
- The Company Income Statement
- The Good Life: Credit
- The Good Life: Credit and Personal Responsibility
- The Good Life: Your Money, Your Credit
- The Impact of Financial Problems on a Person’s Well-being
- The Power of Compound Interest
- Understanding Scarcity: An Introduction to Supply and Demand
- Understanding Utility: How Do We Allocate Resources?
- Unlimited Preferences — Defining and Measuring Utility
- Using Technology to Keep and Use Financial Records
- What Is Economics? A Lesson on Choice and Scarcity
- What to Expect–Decision-making and Expected Value
- WiFi, Passwords, and Phishing: Online Safety Tips
- You Are How You Organize: Keeping and Using Financial Records
- Your Online Financial Life
II. Earning and Reporting Income
- Comparing Job Offers: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- Hourly vs. Salary Compensation
- Jobs and Money Lesson 2: Choosing Jobs, Choosing Salaries
- Jobs and Money Lesson 3: What’s Yours and What’s Not: Paychecks and Deductions
- Jobs Teens Can Get Now
- Tax Basics for Teens
- The Connection Between College Majors and Careers
III. Managing Finances and Budgeting
- ‘SMART’ Financial Goal-setting
- Advantages and Pitfalls of Using Cash and Prepaid Cards
- Avoiding Common Bank Fees
- Budgeting for College Life
- Budgeting for Prom
- Comparing Auto Loans
- Comparison Shopping Big-ticket Items
- Comparison Shopping: Opportunity Cost and Trade-off Thinking
- Develop a Plan for Spending and Saving
- Financial Planning for Jane
- How to Minimize Student Loan Debt
- Jobs and Money Lesson 5 (final): Globalization and the Career Trajectories
- Managing a Checking Account
- Managing Your Finances with Mobile Phones
- Mobile Banking and Payments
- Personal Budgeting
- Portfolio Management
- Saving Strategies
- Strategies Businesses Use to Influence Buying Decisions
- Strategies to Reduce Your Debt
- The Amazing Race
- The Other Costs of Having a Car
- Understanding Financial Advice: Fiduciary vs. Non-fiduciary
- Using Technology to Keep and Use Financial Records
- When You’re Short on Cash
- Why Budget?
- Winning the Lottery
- You Are How You Organize: Keeping and Using Financial Records
IV. Saving and Investing
- ‘SMART’ Financial Goal-setting
- 401(k): The Power of Investing Young for Retirement
- Assessing Investment Options
- Develop a Plan for Spending and Saving
- Dividend Reinvestment, Capital Gains and Capital Losses
- Financial Planning for Jane
- How Fees and Inflation Can Erode Retirement Savings
- How to Minimize Student Loan Debt
- Jobs and Money Lesson 3: What’s Yours and What’s Not: Paychecks and Deductions
- Madoff Case: (Dis)Trust and Investments
- Making Sense of Mutual Funds
- Mutual Funds & Exchange Traded Funds as Investment Tools
- Portfolio Management
- Retirement Products
- Risk and Diversity
- Saving Strategies
- SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
- The Power of Compound Interest
- The Puzzling Practice of Investing in Stocks and Bonds
- Understanding Financial Advice: Fiduciary vs. Non-fiduciary
- What Is an Investment?
- Winning the Lottery
V. Buying Goods and Services
- ‘SMART’ Financial Goal-setting
- Advantages and Pitfalls of Using Cash and Prepaid Cards
- Budgeting for Prom
- Comparing Auto Loans
- Comparison Shopping Big-ticket Items
- Comparison Shopping: Opportunity Cost and Trade-off Thinking
- Develop a Plan for Spending and Saving
- Emotional vs. Rational Brain
- Financial Decision-making: Car Ownership
- Getting your Money’s Worth: Consumer Behavior and College Selection
- Getting Your Own Set of Wheels
- Making a Purchase: Understanding the Consumer Decision-making Process
- Online Buying
- Online Group Buying
- Should You Buy a House?
- Strategies Businesses Use to Influence Buying Decisions
- Understanding Mortgages
- Understanding Self and Consumer Behavior: Why Do You Buy What You Buy?
VI. Banking and Financial Institutions
- Advantages and Pitfalls of Using Cash and Prepaid Cards
- Avoiding Common Bank Fees
- Common Cents: A Lesson about Getting Banked or Staying Unbanked
- Comparing Auto Loans
- Managing a Checking Account
- Managing Your Finances with Mobile Phones
- Mobile Banking and Payments
- Using Technology to Keep and Use Financial Records
- You Are How You Organize: Keeping and Using Financial Records
VII. Using Credit
- Building and Protecting Your Credit Rating
- Building Credit Early in Life — Important Rules of Thumb
- Comparing Student Loans
- Credit and Debt: Credit Reports
- Credit Cards and You
- Credit Check: The Hunt for Errors in Your Credit Report
- Fringe Banking and Predatory Lenders
- How to Minimize Student Loan Debt
- Navigating Hidden Fees and Tricky Credit Card Terms
- Paying for College
- Strategies to Build Your Credit
- Strategies to Reduce Your Debt
- The Impact of Financial Problems on a Person’s Well-being
- The Power of Your Credit Score
- The Subprime Crisis
- Understanding Mortgages
- Understanding Plastic Cards
VIII. Protecting Against Risk
- Bounded Rationality–Everyone Makes Mistakes
- Game Theory–Strategies and Payoffs
- Madoff Case: (Dis)Trust and Investments
- Portfolio Management
- Risk and Diversity
- Risk Management and Insurance
- SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
- The Subprime Crisis
- The Value of Disability Insurance
- What Is an Investment?
- WiFi, Passwords, and Phishing: Online Safety Tips