A four-day unit on central banking built around a structured both-sides debate, set in the fictional town of Corbin Falls.
This series keeps real countries, agencies and published figures out of its scenarios, so a lesson never becomes a verdict on the current economy. A unit about central banking cannot avoid naming the institution it is about, so the Federal Reserve is named and its structure and tools are described as they actually work. Every decision in the unit is still made in Corbin Falls with the town's own numbers.
Corbin Falls' labor force is 7,400 and its unemployment 5.14 percent, exactly as the GDP unit established. The bridge bond is the same $3,000,000 at 4 percent for 20 years, and this unit's arithmetic reproduces the taxes unit's published $220,745 annual payment to the dollar.
Written by a licensed K-12 business teacher with more than thirteen years in the classroom.