Economics and the Role of the Central Bank
Why You Should Take This Course


- Understand how data moves markets Learn how to use the Bloomberg tools for economic forecasts and the economic calendar, how to filter out noise versus which reports will move markets, and how to use Bloomberg to see where the market is expecting interest rates to be in the future.
- Explore the Fed’s toolkit to move markets What actions can the Fed enact and what are their immediate and secondary impacts of the markets? Learn how the Fed keeps short term rates from dropping too low or rising too high. Learn how the Fed can control Long-Term Rates and learn how the Fed can encourage or constrain lending through bank regulation.
- Decode market jargon There is a ton of jargon used by traders every day to explain market moves. Are will bull steepening or bear flattening? Is this Fed speaker a hawk or a dove? What are the differences among all the short-term rates (IOER, Repo/SOFR, Fed Funds, T-Bills), and why does it matter?
Course Samples
Macroeconomics and Central Bank Goals
Economic Indicators
Introduction to Yield Curves

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