The Indicator from Planet Money
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Daily NPR podcast from the Planet Money team, with episodes of about ten minutes each explaining a single economic number or news story, such as inflation data, jobs reports, interest rates and trade. Builds a habit of interpreting economic headlines.
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ineteconomics.org
INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking) promotes innovative, heterodox approaches to economic theory and policy. The site hosts research articles, interviews and talks, videos, podcasts, and event resources showcasing alternative economics and experimental methods.
fred.stlouisfed.org
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a free macroeconomics data portal from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It provides thousands of time-series datasets—such as GDP, unemployment, inflation, and interest rates—with tools to chart, compare series, and download data for analysis.
core-econ.org
CORE Econ is an open-access economics textbook and teaching platform that offers interactive chapters, data-driven exercises, and simulations for introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics (with econometrics), using real-world cases and datasets.
David Woo Unbound
YouTube channel of David Woo, former head of global rates and FX research at Bank of America, analysing macroeconomics, markets and geopolitics through game theory. Viewers learn to connect political events and policy choices to rates, currencies and asset prices.
Principles of Macroeconomics (MIT 14.02)
Short-run fluctuations, long-run growth, monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy, and financial markets, applied to the 2008 crisis, the pandemic economy and recent inflation. Includes 25 lecture videos, problem sets and exams with solutions. Afterwards you can use standard macroeconomic models to interpret economic news.
Macroeconomics
Learn macroeconomics: Explore GDP, inflation, unemployment, and more with this free course from the Khan Academy Team!