Course Material
ECON 305: Money and Banking

Department of Economics, University of Victoria

Instructor: Merwan H. Engineer ; E-mail

Academic Assistant: Ahmed Ishtiaq ; E-mail

Ø Credit Crisis (* examinable)

* Sub-prime Mortgages & Diagram (Mar 1/08)

* AIG and Counterparty Risk (Sept 16/08)

* Banks Bundled and Bet (Dec 24/09)

* Meltdown (video, Feb 13/09)

* Canadian Banking is Better (Feb 1/10)

* Revenge of the Glut (Mar 2/09)

* Money, Power, and Wall Street , PART FOUR, minutes 28-44 for regulatory arbitrage & Greek debt crisis

Credit Crisis - the Essentials (NYT)

Krugman’s Blunt Blog (2008 Nobel Prize winner)

The Warning (video, Oct /09)

Inside Job (video, Feb/10)

The Untouchables (video, minutes 4-12 for NINJA mortgages; Jan/13)

Links

- Bank of Canada

- Department of Finance

- Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation

- Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada

Miscellaneous Money

- Why Money?

- Yap Money

- Phone Money

- Cigarette Money

- Facebook Credits

- Salt Spring Dollars

- History of the Canadian Dollar

- Bitcoin (Decentralized Digit Currency)

- Microfinance: Grameen Bank, Kiva

Scary?

- Money Illusion (Yes -- it is a confidence game)

- Money as Debt, Part 1 (by Paul Grignon, a Vancouver Island resident)

- The Ascent of Money (by historian Niall Ferguson, see Episode 6)

- I.O.U.S.A. (An “Inconvenient Truth” about American unfunded liabilities); IOUSA Not OK (Serious rebuttal)

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