Curriculum Economy & You
Economy & You
Inflation, jobs, and interest rates - how headline economics reaches your daily life.
- Inflation Explained A closer look at what causes inflation and how it's actually measured across an economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Interest Rates and the Central Bank What a central bank actually does when it 'raises rates', and why that one decision ripples through the whole economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Unemployment: What the Numbers Mean How the unemployment rate is actually calculated, and why it doesn't capture everything it seems to. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economy & You: Checkpoint 1 Covers inflation, central banks and interest rates, and the unemployment rate. 5 questions
- Supply and Demand in Everyday Life The single most useful economic model, and how to see it operating in ordinary daily decisions. 📄 Read-aloud
- GDP: Measuring the Size of an Economy What GDP actually measures, and the limits of using a single number to describe an entire economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Recessions: What They Are and How They End How a recession is actually defined, what typically triggers one, and why they eventually end. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economy & You: Checkpoint 2 Covers supply and demand, GDP, and recessions. 5 questions
- Trade and Tariffs Explained Simply Why countries trade with each other, what a tariff actually does, and who ends up paying for one. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Government Spending Affects You How government spending decisions ripple through the broader economy and into everyday life. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Stock Market vs the Economy: Not the Same Thing Why stock prices and the broader economy can move in opposite directions, and why that isn't a contradiction. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economy & You: Checkpoint 3 Covers trade and tariffs, government spending, and the stock market versus the economy. 5 questions
- Global Events and Your Wallet A closing lesson connecting global economic events to concrete, everyday effects on your own finances. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fiscal Policy vs Monetary Policy The two main levers governments and central banks use to steer the economy - and who controls each one. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Business Cycle Explained The recurring pattern of expansion and contraction every economy moves through, and why recessions aren't random. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Recessions Actually Show Up in Household Budgets How a recession affects a real family's paycheck, spending choices, and sense of financial security. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of a Personal Financial Cushion Why having savings set aside matters not just for you, but for how the whole economy weathers shocks. 📄 Read-aloud
- Understanding Your Local Cost of Living Why the same salary can feel very different depending on where you live, and how to actually compare places. 📄 Read-aloud
- Wages vs Prices: Why Raises Don't Always Feel Like Raises Why a pay raise can leave you no better off, or even worse off, once rising prices are taken into account. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Housing Affordability Why housing costs have risen faster than incomes in many places, and the basic supply-and-demand forces behind it. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Exchange Rates Affect What You Pay Why the value of your country's currency against others shapes prices at home, even for people who never travel abroad. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Interest Rate Changes Reach Your EMI How a change in the Reserve Bank of India's repo rate passes through to the interest rate and monthly instalments on home and other loans. 📄 Read-aloud
- What Budget Day Means for Your Wallet How the annual Union Budget can affect household finances through taxes, prices and government programmes. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Petrol Prices Change What makes up the price of petrol in India, from crude oil and the exchange rate to central and state taxes. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Your Grocery Bill Feels Worse Than Official Inflation Why the inflation people feel often seems higher than the official rate, and what explains the gap between household experience and statistics. 📄 Read-aloud