12th Grade Economics
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"Living Large or Barely Living Worksheet" and "Life Goals Worksheet" Find out what the future outlook, average pay, and necessary training is for many kinds of jobs. |
Click here to find the prices of stocks from past days. A good resource to keep caught up on your stock price tracking sheet. |
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Savings and Investment Information "Savings and Exchange Rate Worksheet" A great site that shows you how long it takes you to double your money, the danger of credit cards, and explains how to figure out how different interest rates affect your investment. |
Shows you how long it will take you to save a certain amount of money. Very easy to use. |
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"Home Mortage and Car Loan Interest Rate Worksheet" Find out what are the best interest rates on home loans (mortages), car loans, and others. |
The Real Cost of Your Debt Calculator Shows you how much money you will actually have to pay on any kind of loan. Very easy to use. |
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Loan Repayment and Amortization Tables "Home Mortage and Car Loan Interest Rate Worksheet" Scroll down to bottom of page and click on "Show/Recalculate Amortization Table" to find out how much money you will be paying each month and year on your loan. It shows how much money is going to interest and how much is going to the principal. Runs slow if the loan length is a long time. | |
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Convert American Dollars to Other Currencies "Savings and Exchange Rate Worksheet" Convert American dollars to other countries money to find out what the exchange rate is. |
Apartment Prices Around the Country "Living Large or Barely Living Worksheet" Find the average cost of different kinds of apartments in most parts of the country. |
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Blue Book Prices for New and Used Cars Type in the model, age, and other information about your car, and figure out what it is worth. |
How a Stock has done in the Past Look at the right hand side of the web page for the "Stock Qoutes" section. Type in the stock ticker name (abbreviation from the stock page) and then click on the "Quote" box and drag down to "Price History." You can check out the price of the stock on a chart for past days, weeks, or years. |
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General News |
General News |
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The Wall Street Journal Newspaper About business and general news. |
About international business and general news. |
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Economic Articles Bias and Inaccuracies Part of FAIR magazine's Economic Reporting Review. |
A summary of articles from many other magazines. |
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Web page that looks at how taxes affects people. |
Economics from a progressive perspective. |
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Web site about workers and union efforts. |
Adbusters Cultural Jammers Headquarters Takes a hard look at social consequences of economic actions. |
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Amos World Economics Reference Page Definitions of key words and concepts. | |
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