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Competition provides benefits for consumers. First, more competition means consumers have more choices of goods and services. Second, when more firms are offering goods and services, competition often leads to lower prices.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Economic correspondent Paul Solman looks at the effects of Americans' obsession with low prices as part of his "Making Sense"" series."
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Students will take a surprise trip around the world. As they travel, they will use clues to discover where they are going. They will then figure out how much money they have spent in U.S. dollars, using exchange rates.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
As questions arise about the Federal Reserve's transparency, Paul Solman looks at the agency's attempts to balance public disclosure and secrecy.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman reports on how certain types of jobless people, such as executives and ex-convicts, are struggling to find employment.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman shows how the number of people who fall outside of official jobless rates indicates that the actual unemployment rate is higher than reported.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman explains what economists mean when they talk about the "shape"" of economic recovery."
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
The students will explore the costs and the benefits of going to college. They participate in a three-part game designed to help them understand the decisions associated with attending college and the benefits available to college...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson will help students identify how to make good decisions which will help them financially in the future. Students will identify how to take their own wants and work them into a form of a personal budget. Students will ...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Paul Solman explains how the stress tests played into the government's decision to let 10 big banks repay the Treasury's bailout funds.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Students will learn about important labor market statistics that are frequently discussed in the media. An understanding of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate will be developed through participation in an in...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, t...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Michigan residents about the ripple effects from General Motors' declaration of bankruptcy.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Retired United Auto Workers members ask union chief Ron Gettelfinger about the future of the union and General Motors.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman reports on how General Motors' bankruptcy filing will affect different company stakeholders, from union members to bondholders to car dealers.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger gives the union's perspective on the recent plans to boost the struggling auto industry.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
In a report from his "Making Sense"" series
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely mulls decision-making mechanisms in finance and the ways in which many people rationalize their unethical actions.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman investigates why darker skinned black men face greater discrimination and lower wages in the labor market than lighter skinned black men.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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