Holy crap, welcome to the forum. Great intro! Absolute pleasure meet you. That’s great that you’re taking advantage of the Mises Academy. Sounds like you’re off to a great start.
Be sure to check out The Ultimate Beginner meta-thread to get the lay of the land, and answers to some common questions. Feel free to open a thread if you have any questions (but definitely check in at that link to see if any threads have already been started on your topic.) Also, definitely take advantage of the search function (although it seems to only be returning results from posts in the last few days lately…that is, it doesn’t seem to be searching the whole forum, just posts within the last few days.) So don’t get discouraged if you aren’t getting many hits. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to PM me (or anyone else, I guess). We might be able to remember if (and where) a topic is. But I’m pretty sure most of the common ones are covered in that meta-thread.
Also don’t worry about bumping an old one if you want to re-open a subject. It’s usually better to do that, unless you have a very specific question and the older thread is really long. (They can get that way sometimes.)
Anyway, again, welcome to the forum!