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Finance and capital markets
Money, banking and central banks

Banking and money

  1. Banking 1
  2. Banking 2: A bank's income statement
  3. Banking 3: Fractional reserve banking
  4. Banking 4: Multiplier effect and the money supply
  5. Banking 5: Introduction to bank notes
  6. Banking 6: Bank notes and checks
  7. Banking 7: Giving out loans without giving out gold
  8. Banking 8: Reserve ratios
  9. Banking 9: More on reserve ratios (bad sound)
  10. Banking 10: Introduction to leverage (bad sound)
  11. Banking 11: A reserve bank
  12. Banking 12: Treasuries (government debt)
  13. Banking 13: Open market operations
  14. Banking 14: Fed funds rate
  15. Banking 15: More on the Fed funds rate
  16. Banking 16: Why target rates vs. money supply
  17. Banking 17: What happened to the gold?
  18. Banking 18: Big picture discussion
  19. The discount rate
  20. Repurchase agreements (repo transactions)
  21. Federal Reserve balance sheet
  22. Fractional Reserve banking commentary 1
  23. FRB commentary 2: Deposit insurance
  24. FRB commentary 3: Big picture
  25. LIBOR
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Quantitative easing