The course is intended for people who would like a deeper understanding of the American housing finance system. The focus will be on providing necessary background knowledge rather than on evaluating specific policy proposals.  Near the end of the course, participants will be encouraged to bring up policy issues and to discuss them in light of the information presented.

"Future Ready: Financial Literacy" is an educational resource that introduces the importance of financial literacy and provides an overview of key concepts such as savings accounts, types of interest, and financial planning. It aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed financial decisions, manage money effectively, and build a secure financial future.

The purpose of this class is to advance your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms. We will apply your economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today’s business news to help us understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information.

This course will examine literature and practice regarding community-owned enterprise as an alternative means of increasing community participation and development. The use of cooperatives, credit unions, land trusts, and limited stock ownership enterprises for increasing community participation and empowerment will be examined.

This lesson will teach you the difference between different investments, what they are and the risk involved with each.

This 9-minute video lesson explains the difference between a bond and a stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 18 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson explains what it means to buy a bond. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 54 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson considers a choice between money now and money later. It is the first in a series of 4 videoson Present Value. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 3 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses more choices as to when you get your money. It is the 2nd of a 4-part series on Present Value.[Core Finance playlist: Lesson 4 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson explains why bond prices move inversely to changes in interest rate. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 55 of 184]

This 7-minute video lesson considers the virtuous circle of housing price appreciation making defaults go down making lending lax making housing appreciate even more. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 16 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at why housing prices went up so much from 2000-2006 even though classical supply/demand would not have called for it. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 13 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses why lending standards become more and more lax from 2000 to 2006. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 15 of 184]

This 11-minute video lesson explains how bubbles destroy wealth. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 42 of 184]

This 11-minute video lesson continues to look at how bubbles destroy wealth. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 43 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]

This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant). This course is restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.

In this 6 minute video, students will be introduced to what bonds are and why they are sold and how they help raise money. This will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 18

In this project, you will explore a real-world problem, and then work through a series of steps to analyze that problem, research ways the problem could be solved, then propose a possible solution to that problem. Often, there are no specific right or wrong solutions, but sometimes one particular solution may be better than others. The key is making sure you fully understand the problem, have researched some possible solutions, and have proposed the solution that you can support with information / evidence.Begin by reading the problem statement in Step 1. Take the time to review all the information provided in the statement, including exploring the websites, videos and / or articles that are linked. Then work on steps 2 through 8 to complete this problem-based learning experience..

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by combining classroom work with an applied class project. The course content covers three broad areas:

an overview of the causes for urban business district decline, the challenges faced in revitalization and the type of revitalization strategies employed;
the physical and economic development planning tools used to understand and assess urban Main Streets from physical design and economic development perspectives; and
the policies, interventions, and investments used to foster urban commercial revitalization.

The course has dual goals: to explore the integration of economic and physical development interventions in ways that reinforce commercial district revitalization efforts, and to apply this knowledge through the development of a formal neighborhood commercial revitalization plan for a client business district.