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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Political Polls, Professors and Election Markets Predict the Presidential Race
With such a close presidential race, many would like to look to pollsters and their political crystal balls for predictions....
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Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Applying for Jobs Online Not an Effective Way to Find Work?
With a bad economy and nearly everyone on the internet, one job opening promoted online can receive thousands of applications....
Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Goods and Services…
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e: Competing Claims About Healthcare Reform
In this economics video, students will discuss increasing efficiency, technological innovation, market competition and vouchers.
Key Concepts: Insurance, Profit, Risk and Return…
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Tax Cuts, Deregulation Among Republican Economic Priorities for 2012 Election
Ahead of the Republican National Convention, Paul Solman goes to Tampa, Fla., to talk to Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment…
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: With High Youth Unemployment, Making Sense of Summer Work Visas For Foreigners
Since the 1960s, the State Department has sponsored young foreigners for temporary, low-wage summer jobs in the U.S. But with...
Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Producers
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Making Sen$e of Bailouts: Why the U.S. Government Bought 'Troubled Assets'
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Credit…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Property Rights Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Property Rights, which refers to the legal ownership of resources, including the right to...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Economic Systems, Incentive…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Competition and Market Structure Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Competition and Market Structures. In the context of markets, competition refers to the situation...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Market Structure, Market Structures…
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Consumers Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Consumers. Consumers are powerful in a market economy, and the economic choices of consumers...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Goods and Services…
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Economic Development Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Economic Development. Economic development is a sustained increase in the standard of living of...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Economic Development…
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Technology Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Technology. The set of instructions or blueprints that inform producers about the various ways...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Productivity, Resources
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Demand Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Demand. Demand refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Elasticity of Demand…
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Foreign Currency Markets/Exchange Rates Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concepts of Foreign Currency Markets and Exchange Rates. The foreign currency market is where one currency...
Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Money
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Trade, Exchange and Interdependence Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Credit…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Elasticity of Demand Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Elasticity of Demand. Price elasticity of demand is the way of measuring how much...
Key Concepts: Demand, Elasticity of Demand, Incentive
Grades 9-12
Aggregate Demand Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Aggregate Demand. Aggregate demand shows the total (or aggregate) demand for final goods and...
Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Business Cycles, Economic Institutions…
