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When there is a disparity in interest rates between countries, investors have an opportunity to employ a currency trading strategy called the carry trade. more...

There are all kinds of debt—as small as personal debt or as large as national debt. There's another type of debt as important as the rest—called Sovereign Debt. CNBC Explains. more...

While moderate inflation is actually a good thing for a healthy economy, inflation can also occur when the economy is stagnant. more...

When there is a disparity in interest rates between countries, investors have an opportunity to employ a currency trading strategy called the carry trade. more...

David Beers, Standard & Poor's head of government debt rating unit, explains why S&P downgraded the United States' credit rating from AAA to AA+. Veteran investor Jim Rogers also weighs in. more...

Countries around the world keep their currencies pegged to the U.S. dollar, but how is this balance maintained? We saw in a previous video how a floating exchange rate can significantly affect international trade, but how is this achieved? more...

Salman Khan of the Khan Academy explains what China's currency situation means for U.S. consumption and how it affects the entire U.S. and global economies. more...

You've probably heard about the global controversy surrounding the Chinese currency: international leaders have criticized the Chinese government for keeping the value of the Yuan artificially low, because an artificially undervalued Yuan has serious implications for international trade. more...

The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, buys and sells assets in the open market. Since the central bank has the ability to print U.S. currency, it is able to influence both the money supply and interest rates through open market operations. How do these open market operations work...

How does QE differ from normal federal reserve open market operations? Also, how does US quantitative easing differ from Japan’s quantitative easing program? Salman Khan of the Khan Academy explains the finer points of quantitative easing. more...