Even if you’re someone who is fairly financial savvy, the past few weeks have been a good time to do a refresher!
Here are some helpful links, a few classic ones and some that I’ve recently re-read.
Please add any good refresher links that you’ve had open in a browser tab lately.
A lot of these links are to yrs old content & all of these represent the very standard understanding of these concepts… and sometimes the status-quo understanding will lead you astray! But, still helpful to understand what people are talking about.
The Federal Funds Rate:
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC):
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fomc.asp
Open Market Operations:
The discount window:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/discountwindow.asp
The bond market:
https://www.fool.com/inv.../how-to-invest/bonds/bond-market/
Inverted yield curve:
Credit default swaps: