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Planet Money Summer School 1: The Stock Market

July 28, 2021 • The first class of Planet Money Summer School starts off with a field trip. With the help of a cow, two economists, and three cute animals, we learn what a stock is and how stocks are priced, and we begin to see the psychological forces that make prices move up and down on the stock market. Keep an eye out throughout for our big theme for the course this summer: risk and reward. | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Planet Money Summer School 1: The Stock Market

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Planet Money Summer School 2: Index Funds & The Bet

August 4, 2021 • In 2006, Warren Buffett bet a million dollars that the most brainless, boring investment around would do better than the researched, handpicked investments of some of the smartest hedge fund managers in the world. The second class of Summer School looks at how that bet played out, the origins of the index fund, and why it's so hard to beat the market. Returning to the underlying theme of risk and reward, we also discuss how diversification reduces risk. | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Planet Money Summer School 2: Index Funds & The Bet

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Planet Money Summer School 3: Smooth Spending & The 401(k)

August 11, 2021 • Even if you don't own stocks, there are a lot of reasons to care about investing. We meet some of the folks left out of the stock market who deploy sophisticated economic thinking, even creating their own alternate financial systems. Our professors help us understand how consumption smoothing and life-cycle hypothesis apply to personal finance. And we meet the creator of the 401(k). | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Planet Money Summer School 3: Smooth Spending & The 401(k)

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Planet Money Summer School 5: Bubbles, Bikes & Biases

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Planet Money Summer School 5: Bubbles, Bikes & Biases

August 25, 2021 • Investing during a bubble can leave you bust. But how to tell the difference between a bubble before it bursts and an investing rocket ship taking off? We'll run through a historical example and look inside our own thinking to find the mental biases that can contribute or exacerbate bad bubble thinking. | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Planet Money Summer School 5: Bubbles, Bikes & Biases

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Planet Money Summer School 4: Bonds & Becky With The Good Yield

August 18, 2021 • A few years back, Cardiff asked for an unusual Christmas present: a junk bond... Parallel to the stock market, the bond market offers different levels of risk and reward. In this class, what is a bond, how do they differ from stocks, and how do they help companies grow? | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Planet Money Summer School 6: Crypto & Commencement

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Planet Money Summer School 6: Crypto & Commencement

September 1, 2021 • In the last class of Planet Money Summer School Season 2, we cover one more important market — cryptocurrency. If you're thinking about investing in crypto, do you know exactly what it is that you're buying? Or how it should (if at all) fit alongside the rest of your investments? | Watch this Tik Tok to learn more and subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. | Don't forget to take the Summer School Final Quiz.

Planet Money Summer School 6: Crypto & Commencement

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Test Your Investing Brain With The Summer School Final Quiz

September 1, 2021 • Think you know your index funds from your junk bonds? It's time to find out! Eight questions stand between you and a diploma-like certificate of completion for Summer School Season 2.