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"This set of 24 lectures takes the mystery out of investing by giving simple and clear explanations of investments and the process of investing. You'll learn practical lessons about how to choose the best investments for your portfolio and how to plan your financial goals."--p. 1 of course guidebook.
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Detailed lectures that explain the stock market from the inside, introducing you to the factors that make company stocks rise and fall and the information you need to grasp the market's role in the world economy, evaluate the relative soundness of stocks, and understand the stock investment options available to you.
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The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life. Whether simple or complex, private or public, decisions are an essential part of life, affecting individual lives for good or ill, as well as friends, families, and communities. Decision-making is a skill--one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. When the necessary components of a smart decision are understood, mistakes can be sidestepped. When...
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"Economies are deeply complex systems. The global marketplace--even national, state and local economies--involve many economic actors behaving in rational and irrational ways, sustaining a dizzying array of interconnected activity. Because of the number of participants involved in this global exchange, the unpredictability of their actions, and the sheer variety of possible actions, some degree of economic uncertainty is inevitable. In 24 practical...
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Professor Connel Fullenkamp offers an essential primer on financial markets, from its functions, strengths, and possibilities to its weaknesses and vulnerabilities. He reveals the interconnected workings of the financial markets and how society's financial strength-- and your own-- depend on money continuing to move through these channels. You'll not only gain a new appreciation for the variety of financial products and services available to you,...
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Why do some nations prosper while others languish in perpetual poverty? What economic principles guide the accelerating improvement of material life, and how can we safeguard them? This lecture series will address such questions and more by examining the sources of economic prosperity at the individual, national, and global levels.
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"This course will provide a systematic introduction to the rapidly changing field of behavioral economics. It will consider how behavioral economics adopts traits from its parent disciplines of economics and psychology but combines them into a new approach for studying decision making."--page 1 of course guidebook.
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