Business simulation games →
Play 8 business roles, predict consequences, compare paths and download your decision reviews.
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Tools & decisions
Plan a purchase, compare choices or practise a business decision.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.