It wont exactly fit in your pocket, but you get the idea. My objective was to create a single, descriptive powerpoint slide to introduce my students to ABCT. I am teaching a graduate level Investments course in Boston, MA this semester and most, if not all, of my class has never been exposed to ABC…

Yeah, I like it. Very clear and understandable. I like the use of color.

I saw no mention of the central bank and its role in creating ABCT. I saw a reference to the government encouraging easy money policy. No need to avoid the subject; let your students know the cause of the cycle, it was the central bank that enables the credit expansion to continue. Lower left hand …

The layout out is excellent. What did you make this in? We need more stuff like this.

Michael, sure it will fit in your pocket - just fold it up :wink: Good job - BTW, i used to live (and study) in Boston. Out of curiosity, where are you teaching? We could use some mroe austrian at Boston University (and Harvard and MIT while we’re at it…)

Thanks, Ill principally be up against a skeptical student body.

Thank you. Im at Suffolk University.

It was acutally just done in power point. I have a few more slides under development like this one.

Great suggestions. Many thanks. I’ve presented ABCT to prior classes and comfortable with the level of inquiry. My problem was find a succint, visual way to explain it.

Excellent work Michael. My only criticism is similar to Chloe’s. I think it needs to be made clearer that banks per se are not the problem, but central banking is. Or more specifically, the monopoly on money creation. The slide as a whole could be interpreted as meaning the problem is the greedy ba…

Trulib- Thank you. Terrific points and I intend to incorporate them. I actually have an oversized screen that I am going to pull it up on. The text is larger than you’d think on the projector. Michael

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Hi Nielsio- The new thread, and link, can be found here:

Comments are encouraged!

Michael

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