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Course Syllabus

In Part 1 you'll learn

- What is the importance of correct financial behavior and daily habits?

- Which bad financial habits should you avoid?

- How do you build a budget?

- What is a Sinking Fund?

- How much should the Emergency Fund of a budget be?

- What is a Profit and Loss report? (first Amanda exercise)

- What is the difference between short term saving and investing?

In Part 2 you'll learn

- What is Net Worth?

- What is an Asset?

- What is a Liability?

- Do businesses need to budget?

- What is Revenue?

- How do business expenses affect the price of the business?

- What happens to prices when taxes are raised?
- What is the tax relationship between people, businesses and the government?

In Part 3 you'll learn

- What is interest?  

- What is principal?

- What is the formula for simple interest?

- What is the difference between a checking and a savings account? 

- What is the difference between a debit and a credit card?

- How does a bank work?

- What is a loan amortization schedule? How do you read it?

- What is a down payment for a loan?

- What is Euribor?

In Part 4 you'll learn

- What's the difference between simple and compounding interest?

- What is collateral?

- What is a margin call? 

- What are your fixed costs?
- Exercises

In Part 5 you'll learn

- Can you inherit debt?

- What happens when a person can't pay a debt? What happens when a business can't pay a debt? What about a country?

- What is the government debt today? How much is it per taxpayer?

- What is a surplus? What is a deficit? 

- What is supply and demand?

- What happens when the government intervenes and dictates market prices? For example, maximum price of bread, minimum salary, rent control, etc...

- What is a free market economy?

- What is a wealth tax? 

- What is an inheritance tax? 

- What is gift tax? 

- What is inflation?

- What is deflation? 
- What is a recession? 

- Why are there shortages when the government controls the means of production?

In Part 6 you'll learn

- What is a diversified investment portfolio?

- What is exposure? Why do you want to limit exposure?

- What is financial risk?

- What is cash flow? What is a liquid asset?

- What are commodities? 

- What are futures?

- What does it mean to be short/long on a future?

- What are bonds?

- What is the relationship between inflation/interest/bond prices?

- What causes inflation?

In Part 7 you'll learn

- What is a company?

- What are shares?

- What are dividends?

- What is an LLC? What is the benefit of an LLC?

- What is competition? Why does it create progress?

- What is monopoly? What types of monopoly are there?

- What is a Mutual Fund? What is an Index Fund?

- What is better: timing the market or time in the market?

- What is an investment account?

- Do you just send money to the investment account or do you need to allocate it to a fund?

In Part 8 you'll learn

- What is blockchain technology?

- What is Centralized Finance? What is Fiat?

- What is Decentralized Finance? What is cryptocurrency?

- What is Bitcoin? What are Stablecoins? Why are CBDCs dangerous?

- What is the criteria for money?

In Part 9 you'll learn

- What legal protections do you get when you get married?

- What is the Marriage Advantage?

- What are the legal and financial differences between a "common-law" husband and wife and a regular husband and wife?

- What is the gift tax?

- What is the inheritance tax?

- What is financial infidelity?

- What is ward of the state?

- How to check your pension status?

- How to write a will?

In Part 10 you'll learn

- How to spot a financial scam?

- The history of Financial Bubbles

- Exercises and questions

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