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Educational only. Ideas in plain English—not advice, signals, or trade recommendations.
Foundations
About
Who this is for, site vs Telegram, and our educational-only promise.
Cash, stocks, and bonds
Asset roles and the rates/inflation/growth backdrop—no allocation recipe.
Bonds for beginners
Price vs yield intuition and duration light—no bond picks.
Sources and habits
BLS, BEA, Fed—and a calm habit for reading releases.
Common macro myths
Popular slogans with plain-English corrections.
Core economics
GDP and measurement
Nominal vs real GDP, C+I+G+NX intuition, and what GDP leaves out.
Money and banking
What money is, M1/M2 light, and why banks matter for macro.
Real vs nominal
Purchasing-power lens for rates, wages, and returns.
Demand & supply shocks
AD/AS vocabulary and historical shock stories—not forecasts.
Growth & productivity
Potential output, productivity, and why growth compounds living standards.
Trade & balance of payments
Exports, imports, current account, and capital-flows intuition.
Unemployment types
Frictional, structural, cyclical—plus participation and U-3 light.
Policy & prices
Fed toolkit
Rates, balance sheet, and forward guidance in everyday language.
Inflation 101
CPI, core, and PCE — how to read a print without trading it.
Interest rates & yields
Policy rate vs market yields, and the yield-curve idea.
Fiscal policy basics
Spending, taxes, deficits — and how fiscal differs from the Fed.
Financial conditions
Tight vs easy — rates, credit, dollar, and risk mood as context.
Inflation regimes
Disinflation, deflation, and stagflation as vocabulary distinctions.
Real rates & breakevens
Real-rate idea plus breakeven/TIPS vocabulary—educational only.
Yield curve
Steep, flat, inverted as labels—not a recession trading rule.
Credit spreads
What a credit spread is and how it ties to risk mood—context only.
Economy & markets
Jobs and growth
Labor data, GDP light, and landing scenarios as vocabulary.
Business cycle
Expansion–peak–contraction–trough as a learning map.
Recession vocabulary
Contraction language and soft/hard landing as labels—not forecasts.
US dollar & FX
Stronger/weaker dollar, DXY shorthand, rates and risk links.
Commodities and the dollar
Oil, gold, and dollar headlines as context—not trade ideas.
Housing, mortgages, and rates
How policy and yields show up in mortgage quotes—not RE advice.
Risk assets 101
Rates, liquidity, and risk mood — with explicit anti-signal framing.
Cycles & risk
Need a quick definition?
Jump into the plain-English glossary — every term links back to a primer.