Economics Explained

Money & Banking

Central banks, interest rates and credit.

Money

How Banks Create Money Through Lending

Most broad money is created when banks make loans. Covers money aggregates, the textbook multiplier, the quantity theory and the real limits on lending.

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Money

How Interest Rates Work: Nominal, Real and the Yield Curve

Interest rates set the price of money across time. Learn compounding, nominal versus real rates, the Fisher approximation, policy rates and yield curves.

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