
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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