Click here for a copy of the syllabus.
For copies of the practice sets for this class, for answer keys to same, and for a great deal more please go to Moodle . Moodle can be accessed by going to http://moodle.augustana.edu and looking for ECON-345-01(20111FA) under Economics.
You might like to check out the website for Mishkin's text. It can be found by going to
the following page: MISHKIN TEXT.
Over the term I will add to this list of sites related to Money and Banking.
To start out you might want to have a look at the following site run by CNN's financial news network.
(1) Cnn financial news network FED monitor.
(2) Investing in Bonds.com (This is an excellent source of information on the bond market.)
(3) Site with info on the European Union
(4) Website about FED history, structure and the like.
(5) Good source for charts on the US economy.
(6) St. Louis Federal Reserve's website (where you can access "FRED")
(7) Online copies of the Kansas City Fed's annual symposiums.
(8) A great site to supplement material covered in chapters 20-24.
(9) Click here to follow the link given in Mishkin to the Financial Forecast Center.
(10) macroblog (Links to FED websites and lots of material on central banks, the monetary policy they carry out and why what is done by central banks is so important.)
(11) Check out this blog as well.
(13) Bloomberg markets.
(14) Want to know what an open-ended fund is or a naked put? Click here for links to a selection of financial glossaries.
(15) American Public Media's Marketplace.
(16) Overview of Federal Reserve System
Click here to access html version of lecture on the fed funds futures market:: A tutorial on fed watching