5Module 5

Macroeconomics & The Economy

Markets don't move in a vacuum — they react to the health of the whole economy. This module covers the big economic ideas the news assumes you already know, using Aman's city itself as the economy in miniature.

5 chapters · about 23 minutes

  1. 5.1What Is GDP? Measuring Everything the Country Made This Year4 min

    Everything Riya owned fell on the same morning, and none of those companies had done anything. What moves all of it at once?

  2. 5.2How Inflation Works: Why Aman's Bread Costs More Every Year5 min

    Riya got a 5% raise and could afford exactly what she could afford before. Where did it go?

  3. 5.3Fiscal Policy and Government Debt, Explained Simply4 min

    Why does the entire market stop to watch one speech, once a year, on the first of February?

  4. 5.4What Causes a Recession? When the Whole Economy Slows Down at Once5 min

    Riya had diversified properly this time. Everything fell anyway. Had she wasted her time?

  5. 5.5What Is Stagflation? The Trap With No Easy Fix5 min

    A weak economy is supposed to cool prices. What happens when it doesn't?