The economy,
explained plainly.
A guided path through the factors that shape your paycheck, your rent, and your future. Watch a short video. Take a quick quiz. Move on.
U.S. adults can correctly define basic inflation. Fewer can explain unemployment. Don't be the one.
You're one lesson away from understanding this stuff. Most adults were never taught it.
Start the first lesson →14 modules. Three tiers.
Finish a tier to unlock the next.
The foundations
The five ideas that sit under every headline. Start here.
- 1MARKET FORCES10 MINMarket forces: what actually moves the price of everything
Supply and demand: the engine under every price, wage and rent.
START MODULE → - 2WHY PRICES MOVE10 MINWhy your weekly shop keeps creeping up
Inflation, told through the till receipt and the shrinking packet.
🔒 LOCKED - 3INTEREST RATESCOMING SOONThe people who move your mortgage (and answer to no one you voted for)
Interest rates and central banks: the price of money, and how one decision lands on your rent and mortgage.
VIDEO IN PRODUCTION - 4RENT VS PAY10 MINWhy your rent outran your pay
Sticky wages, fast markets: why housing races ahead while pay crawls behind.
🔒 LOCKED - 5JOBS & WAGES10 MINWhy good jobs feel harder to get
The labour market and the cycle, and why 'record employment' can still feel rubbish.
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The bigger picture
Once the basics click, these are the forces moving them.
- 6GDP & INEQUALITY10 MINGDP & inequality: growth vs your life
What GDP measures, what it ignores, and why the pie can grow while your slice doesn't.
🔒 LOCKED - 7TARIFFS & TRADE10 MINTariffs & trade: who actually pays
Comparative advantage and tax incidence, and why 'they'll pay the tariff' isn't true.
🔒 LOCKED - 8TAXESCOMING SOONWhy your payslip is smaller than your salary
Tax, where it goes, and the gap between the rate on paper and in real life.
VIDEO IN PRODUCTION - 9CURRENCY10 MINWhy your holiday money buys less (and imported things cost more)
Exchange rates from the consumer side: a weak pound and the price on the shelf.
🔒 LOCKED - 10GOVERNMENT DEBTCOMING SOONHow a country ends up trillions in debt
Government borrowing, in plain English.
VIDEO IN PRODUCTION - 11RECESSIONSCOMING SOONWhat a recession does to your job and your rent
Recessions, and the 'vibecession' when it just feels bad.
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Where it gets real
The parts people actually argue about at the dinner table.
- 12IMMIGRATIONCOMING SOONImmigration: the real pros and cons
Labour supply, the lump-of-labour fallacy, and the fiscal ledger. Both sides, no spin.
VIDEO IN PRODUCTION - 13THE HOUSING LOOPHOLECOMING SOONWhy we build ugly new-builds instead of fixing empty homes
How a tax rule quietly decides what gets built, and the US version.
VIDEO IN PRODUCTION - 14CRISIS AS A TOOLCOMING SOONHow a crisis gets used against you (and who profits)
The crisis playbook, plainly.
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Case studies
When the theory met the real world. Read them anytime, not required to progress.
How a housing bubble broke the global banking system.
Lockdowns, stimulus, and the inflation that followed.
What happens when a currency loses trust.