Business pricing workshop →
Include labor, overhead and waste; compare prices, break-even sales and actual results.
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Tools & decisions
Plan a purchase, compare choices or practise a business decision.
Business simulation games →
Play 8 business roles, predict consequences, compare paths and download your decision reviews.
Decision journeys →
Start with a goal: buy a home, evaluate a business, manage debt, compare jobs or teach money skills.
Connected homebuying plan →
Connect market conditions, rent versus buy, monthly costs, cash needed and a savings timeline. Optionally save your plan on your device.
Housing market tracker →
Compare local price cuts, inventory and time on market with source dates and limits visible.
Free financial calculators →
Explore mortgage options, business value, financing, debt, job offers, savings and inflation with visible assumptions.
Rental property calculator →
Check rental cash flow, cap rate, cash-on-cash return and the rent needed to break even.
Rent vs. buy calculator →
Compare ending wealth after home equity, selling costs and investing monthly savings.
Startup & break-even calculator →
Estimate launch cash, sales needed to cover costs and how long your money could last.
Business loan & seller financing calculator →
Split a purchase between cash, a bank loan and seller financing, including a balloon payment.
Debt payoff calculator →
Compare avalanche and snowball payoff time, interest and the impact of extra payments.
Salary & job offer calculator →
Compare spendable cash, benefits, commuting, living costs and the cost of changing jobs.
Emergency fund & savings calculator →
Plan emergency savings and a purchase goal without counting the same money twice.
Inflation & purchasing power calculator →
See how inflation changes prices and real pay, with a separate historical CPI-index comparison.
CEO simulation →
You run Northstar, a small fictional product company. A national retailer wants a launch in two weeks. Your team is already busy.
CFO simulation →
You manage cash at Northstar. A customer owes $15,000, payroll of $12,000 is due Friday, and a supplier wants an early order.
CMO simulation →
Your fictional campaign gets attention, but few visitors buy. Sales wants volume and operations is worried about returns.
COO simulation →
You run operations at Northstar. Orders are booked, a supplier is late and the team has limited room to absorb surprises.
Consultant simulation →
Northstar’s owner says marketing is the problem. You have one week to investigate and propose a useful next step.
Founder simulation →
You are launching a fictional repair kit at Northstar. People like the idea, but nobody has bought it yet. Your first production slot is available this week.
Product manager simulation →
Northstar is launching a fictional order portal. A demo looks good, but customers have not yet completed the full order flow. Sales has promised a launch date.
People manager simulation →
Northstar has more work than its current team can comfortably deliver. You have a fictional hiring and support budget, an urgent vacancy and a new starter arriving soon.
Mortgage & homebuying calculator →
Compare loan options, monthly costs and cash required.
Business valuation & listing checker →
Compare asking price, earnings, debt and owner income.
Learn & practise
Build understanding and keep your work together.
World Strategy Lab: game theory simulator →
Eight arenas, seven strategy bots, custom payoffs, campaigns, tournaments and Nash equilibrium analysis.
Supply & demand lab →
Move curves and explore equilibrium, consumer surplus, producer surplus, total gains, taxes and deadweight loss.
Learning hub →
Choose a weekly challenge, history case, claim explanation or guided data project.
Economics lessons →
Plain-language explanations of prices, work, growth, trade and everyday choices.
Economic claim checker →
Inspect familiar claims about prices, jobs, GDP and rates, with evidence and exceptions.
Your learning notebook →
Save readings, questions and notes on this device and export a copy to keep.
Free economics course →
Work through introductory lessons, activities and a final project with publisher sources.
Economics playground →
Explore economics through country clues, price baskets, timelines and interactive comparisons.
News & history
Connect current releases with historical evidence.
Global news monitor →
Explore a 3D globe, search recent public news by country, revisit dates and follow natural disaster signals.
Economic release calendar →
See selected inflation, jobs, GDP and Federal Reserve dates, with explanations and calendar downloads.
Economic history library →
Follow five economic turning points from starting conditions to outcomes and comparison limits.
Article follow-up checkpoints →
Revisit original evidence at three and six months without rewriting the original analysis.
Weekly article challenge →
Answer three questions and see explanations tied to the article’s sources.
Then-versus-now comparisons →
Compare starting conditions, responses, outcomes and limits beside the current article.
Economics Now & Then →
Read sourced explanations that connect economic ideas with events and historical context.
Teaching resources
Free activities, printable packs and optional curriculum.
Does a bigger paycheck buy more? →
Distinguish nominal income from purchasing power and calculate a fixed basket price index.
What would you fund with a limited budget? →
Calculate a budget balance and explain who bears the tradeoffs when taxes or spending change.
When does interest start earning interest? →
Compare simple and compound interest and explain how the same growth can help a saver or increase an unpaid debt.
Can higher productivity support higher wages? →
Separate output per worker, total output, wages, and revenue available to cover other costs.
How many sales cover the costs? →
Calculate revenue, costs, contribution margin, and the sales needed to avoid a loss.
Can both sides gain from trade? →
Calculate opportunity costs and identify which producer gives up less to make each good.
Who pays for a warning everyone hears? →
Calculate a shared project’s total net benefit and compare how equal contributions affect each household.
Who pays for the smoke? →
Include pollution damage in social costs and identify which batches add positive net benefits.
Workshops & custom tools →
Request an economics workshop, a custom calculator or learning activity, or wider curriculum licensing.
Article teaching packs →
Find printable student worksheets, vocabulary and separate teacher answer guides for weekly articles.
Classroom resources →
Find ready-to-teach activities and sourced resources for group learning.
Free curriculum samples →
Try printable economics activities before choosing a curriculum package.
Group licensing →
Choose the appropriate curriculum license for a co-op, club or classroom group.
Education partner kit →
Find resources for sharing the curriculum with families and teaching communities.
Calculator lessons and activities →
Make a prediction, change an assumption and explain the result using fictional numbers and printable response sheets.
Homeschool resource library →
Browse free activities and samples alongside optional paid curriculum and group resources.
A home costs more than its price tag lesson plan →
Distinguish purchase price, borrowing cost, monthly ownership costs and upfront cash.
Would you buy this business? lesson plan →
Distinguish advertised earnings, adjusted earnings, estimated value and buyer cash flow.
Rent collected is not profit lesson plan →
Calculate the difference between rental revenue, operating income and cash flow.
Two paths, one starting budget lesson plan →
Compare opportunity cost and ending wealth under uncertain assumptions.
Can your small business cover its costs? lesson plan →
Use contribution margin to calculate break-even sales and test demand risk.
The payment that arrives later lesson plan →
Explain amortization and why a balloon payment changes financing risk.
Two ways to pay down debt lesson plan →
Compare payoff strategies while holding the payment budget constant.
Which job offer fits the budget? lesson plan →
Compare gross pay, assumed taxes, living costs, benefits and time.
Save for a goal without using the safety cushion lesson plan →
Separate emergency reserves from planned purchases and calculate a saving schedule.
A bigger number can buy less lesson plan →
Distinguish nominal pay from inflation-adjusted purchasing power.
Family Grocery Economics →
A five day homeschool unit on budgets, unit prices, inflation, substitution, and household tradeoffs for ages 11 through 16.
Inflation and the Family Budget →
A five day homeschool unit on price levels, inflation rates, household budgets, purchasing power, and economic evidence for ages 11 through 16.
Jobs, Wages, and Work →
A five day homeschool unit on labor force measures, unemployment, wages, purchasing power, skills, productivity, and job matching for ages 11 through 16.
Trade, Tariffs, and Prices →
A five day homeschool unit on imports, exports, tariffs, consumer prices, producers, workers, and retaliation for ages 11 through 16.
GDP, Growth, and Recessions →
A five day homeschool unit on GDP, real output, GDP per person, economic growth, recessions, and careful use of evidence for ages 11 through 16.
Complete Homeschool Economics Library →
All five complete homeschool economics units in one downloadable 127 page PDF for ages 11 through 16, with parent guides, student work, answers, projects, and rubrics.
Economics Club Kit →
A ten session facilitator guide and all five printable economics units for one adult led teaching group of up to ten learners, ages 11 through 16.
Supply & Demand Teaching Pack →
Three 45 minute lessons on curve shifts, equilibrium, gains from trade, and taxes, with worksheets, worked answers, an assessment, and a single teacher license for one cohort of up to 30 learners.
Markets & Society Teaching Pack →
Three 45 minute lessons on comparative advantage, public goods, and external costs, with printable student work, worked answers, extensions, an assessment, and one teacher license for one cohort of up to 30 learners.
Housing market classroom activity →
Turn local housing observations into a printable student investigation.
Inflation classroom kit →
A sourced price-basket activity with an answer key.
Data & investigations
Explore observations, compare countries and test a hypothesis.
Canada recession tracker →
GDP growth, inflation and unemployment with dates, sources and coverage limits.
Mexico recession tracker →
GDP growth, inflation and unemployment with dates, sources and coverage limits.
European Union recession tracker →
GDP growth, inflation and unemployment with dates, sources and coverage limits.
Australia recession tracker →
GDP growth, inflation and unemployment with dates, sources and coverage limits.
United Kingdom recession tracker →
GDP growth, inflation and unemployment with dates, sources and coverage limits.
U.S. recession tracker →
GDP, inflation, unemployment, Sahm rule and a dated recession probability model with interactive trends.
GDP calculation lab →
Calculate nominal GDP, real GDP, GDP deflator and real GDP per capita and their growth rates.
Inflation & Fed Watch →
Latest reported CPI and PCE inflation, Federal Reserve target rates, meeting dates and official decisions.
Guided data investigations →
Test a hypothesis with real country observations, then export your evidence and conclusion.
Country data explorer →
Compare economic indicators and historical observations while keeping units, dates and sources in view.
Global trade explorer →
Explore exports, imports, leading goods and trading partners in the published country profiles.
Apps & developers
Continue on iPhone or build with the calculation models.
Calculator API beta →
Build learning projects with documented calculation models, JSON examples and an OpenAPI description.
World Economy on iPhone →
See the iPhone app’s features and download options. The website tools above are also available in your browser.