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Man stands with hands clasped and lips parted mid-speech. Backdrop displays photo collage of Chinese people. Caption. Made martial arts a part of mainstream America.

Woman and man, seated and smiling in front of a white columned monument. Caption. Cows. Sheep?

Senior woman stands in a crowd of people reaching towards something that is not visible in frame. In the foreground, a woman's hand in a blue latex glove. Caption. Where he learned about morality and economics.

Woman sits at a desk while speaking to a man in an office setting. Caption. How much money would you like to deposit?

Cartoon hand holds a little red money bag with a United States dollar sign on it.

Digital images of 3 side-by-side gray credit card shapes with 2 black lines, grid of 9 small rectangles, and yellow and orange overlapping circles.

Digital image of financial table, 1 labeled "simple interest loan," and the other, "compound interest loan." Each column has interest rate, fee, and interest payment totals for years 1, 2 and 3.

Neon green, black, and red icons representing money and taxes against a bright blue background.

Digital image of large black dollar signs flanking an icon depicting a family of 3.

Table shows Time, Percentage, and Total across four weeks.

Teenage girl wearing a white t-shirt and red shorts stands next to a lap swimming pool. Text on t-shirt reads, "Lifeguard." Caption. Because we're helping the community.

Black and white rearview photo of a person dressed in collared shirt and vest looking towards a female colleague walking into an office setting. Caption. Darla Dollar could make a hermit ditch his cave.

Closeup of a teenage boy with a neon guitar hanging on the wall behind him. Caption. Hey, you're a kid, and you like to make money.

Closeup of a teenage girl with wide brown eyes, dark brown, curly hair, mouth open. Caption. But there's another way you can get money. As a gift.

Person in work overalls with Robot Removal printed on the back speaks with a young woman and man. Caption. Robot removal.

Closeup of a middle-aged woman smiling and looking down at a pink sheet of paper. Caption. Ok, can I have it back, please?

Seated girl gazes downward resting her cheek into her hand like she is tired or bored. Caption. I'll relax when you give me back my piggy bank.

Closeup of a teenager assembling beaded jewelry. Caption. I take my head pin and put the beads on.

Back view of a person jogging on a path next a tree-lined river. Caption. Ring the shoreline every day.

Teenage girl and boy talk in a computer lab setting. Caption. Oh, well, I guess the ethical thing to do.

Teenage boy wears a red t-shirt and speaks to camera. Caption. Most everyday things can and should be bought with cash.

Woman looks forward and gestures out towards camera. A teenager sits at the table next to her, listening attentively. Caption. Between thinking you have money and knowing you have money.

Black and white photo of a World War 1 battle ship surrounded by crowds of people and soldiers on deck. Caption. The country went to war in 1917, singing.

Title text reads, “Borrower Beware," against a background of the Dow Jones ticker tape.

Closeup of a person's eyes with green computer text reflecting in their glasses.

Man wearing a white white shirt and yellow necktie sits slightly sideways from the camera and looks forward. He is speaking as if he is in an interview.

Woman wearing glasses and business attire sits in an office chair behind a desk, looking just off camera like she is in an interview.

Closeup on a hand with fuchsia pink nail polish using a pen to fill out a form.

Closeup of a financial statement, showing Expenses and Allocations. Caption. I help direct the budgeting process at the university.

Man sits at a workstation and types on a keyboard while looking at 2 computer displays.

Man sits at a desk with two computer screens on it. Text reads, “Philip Maniscola. Actuary.”

Woman sits for an interview in a red chair against a dark teal background. Text reads, “Kelly Shafer. Audit and Assurance Accountant.”

Man sits for an interview at a table in a room with modern wood paneling. Text reads, “Marcus P. White. Bank Branch Manager.”

Man sits for an interview in a white room with a fireplace and file cabinet behind him. Text reads, “Pernell Jones. Chief Financial Officer.”

Financial document with a zoomed in section that reads, Effective Annual Percentage Rate, 19.80%. Caption. The annual percentage rate is shown.

Bank marketing flyer with images of people smiling superimposed on puzzle pieces next to advertised banking services and benefits. Caption. Banks want your business, so see what they have to offer.

Closeup of a man wearing a dark polo. He smiles and speaks to camera. Caption. Out of the government's dollars and cents.

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Ford Carter and the Economic Malaise

Still image from: Crash Course World History II: Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company

Still image from: Crash Course World History II: Money and Debt

Cyberchase cartoon. Matt, Inez, and Jackie look across a booth table at a woman with a green face and pale pink shirt. Behind her, a shelf full of action figure toys. Caption. How about all 3 lemonades for that 1 card.

Woman wearing a green long sleeve shirt and blue scarf speaks to camera. Caption. To do a guaranteed federal student loan instead.

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Four Sectors of Economy. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Consumers and producers. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, Goods and Services. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Micro versus Macro. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Needs and Wants. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Supply and Demand. Kid Explorer.”

Dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Types of Economy. Kid Explorer.”

Dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “What is Economics. Kid Explorer.”

Computer-generated image of a book cover with a red border. In the middle is a blackboard decorated with U,S currency designs. Text on image reads, "Financial Literacy."

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Borrowing vs. Saving

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Calculating Interest

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Calculating Sales Tax

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Checking & Savings Accounts

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Debit & Credit

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Making a Budget

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids: Needs and Wants

Young man with short brown hair looks off camera. Caption. These things help decide what should go in your budget.

Black and white photo of a crowd of dozens of men standing at the factory gates. Caption. American factories worked to capacity to fill the demand.

Digital illustration of an office building towering above treetops beneath a blue sky. Handwritten white lettering reads, "Credit Card Company," with arrow pointing to building. Caption. Credit card companies lend you a certain amount of money.

Woman with brown curly short hair and cornflower blue shirt looks just off camera. Caption. It'll make a big difference by the time you retire.

MIddle-aged man looks slightly off camera as if giving an interview, with shelves of books behind him. Caption. And keep an umbrella over their prices.

Portrait photographs of 3 men. Caption. They back inventors like Rob Campbell.

Collage with black and white illustration of a twelfth century Chinese man holding out a scrap of paper. A red lantern on a pole overhead. Red prohibited symbol covers image of 2 gold bars.

Black and white photo shows John Pierpont Morgan walking and talking with a young man. Caption. Narrator. Morgan knew he had been beaten, but he wasn't about to give up.

Still image from: Lab Six: The Bank (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: The Bank--Part 2 (Spanish)

Exterior shot of the New York Stock Exchange building with pillars, arched windows, and 3 small American flags fixed at an angle.

Close up of dollar bills running through a machine. Caption. The bills are then cut and wrapped.

Individual in a suit approaches an open door with back facing camera. Caption. We have a vault within a vault, where the cash is kept.

Middle-aged man in a home office setting looks slightly off camera with a confident expression. Caption. You may not want to put money into those accounts.

Street-view of a concrete multi-story office building surrounded by other similar buildings. The front has 6 tall, Roman-style columns with American flags on either side.

Still image from: Nick News: Civil Air Patrol, Ariel Academy, and Chess Wizard

Still image from: Nick News: Coins, Skates, and a Healthy Mind

Senior man looks slightly off camera in an outdoor setting opening his mouth slightly as if in mid-speech. Caption. Real hurt and real anger.

Young woman standing against a brick wall speaks to camera, looking slightly away. Caption. That can help you get through college.

Aerial shot of Hillary Clinton speaking on stage in front of a crowd of people, her image projected on 2 jumbotron screens. Caption. As being affected by money in politics.

Man wearing a business suit holds a metal rod and faces towards camera. Behind him, a factory floor with a few workers seated at desks. Caption. It is productivity that holds the supply side together.

Middle-aged man with thick framed glasses wearing a business suit faces camera. He is seated behind a desk and resting his hands in front of him on a folder. Caption. Reflecting the value of money, really, all over there world.

Young woman reads a piece of paper in a home setting. Caption. In terms of what happens to those credit card offers.

Teenage girl in a black hoodie, black pants, and black shoes sits on a red park bench next to another teenage girl in a black hoodie, camo pants, and black shoes while sitting on a wood park bench. Caption. They can just get whatever they want.

Young adult seated on a couch in a home setting leans over to review documents on a coffee table. Caption. If you're not sure where the mortgage.

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Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: A.P. Giannini

Closeup on a woman's hands holding a bill with several bills and a checkbook on the table below her. Caption. How much would you like to spend each month?

Young woman looks down and away from camera. Text below her reads, "Dekanti Morkonmana, Student". Caption. When I go to the grocery store, it makes me feel.

Indoor party with teenage girls and boys standing and seated in groups, talking and smiling while holding red cups. Text on screen reads, "Actor portrayal."

Teenage girl glances to the side as she opens her mouth to speak. Title bar reads, "Ava Della Pietra via Skype."

Screenshot of C-SPAN coverage of a congressional hearing. Title bar below reads, Financial Market Regulators, House Oversight Committee. Caption. I will start the questioning.

Black and white closeup of a person ladling soup into another's bowl. Caption. The Depression was more than an economic problem.

Closeup of an Indian woman wearing a gold head scarf and gold jewelry. She is smiling and looking off to her left. Caption. I might have rice for 1 meal, but not another.

2 women next to each other with man standing behind them. Caption. Narrator. Bingo! What's that again?

Infographic shows a nervous emoji with one thought cloud that says "Sell! Sell! Sell!" and another thought cloud that contains the symbols of Bitcoin and Tesla. Arrow leads from the emoji to the label "10 years."

Woman clasps her hands while speaking to us against a digital background featuring a circular illustrated male character. Above the circle is the name Jannik, and below it says $988.34"

Brown-haired woman wearing a floral-print shirt stands in front of a wall and talks to us.

Man with a skeptical facial expression in front of a line graph sourced from the Wall Street Journal, showing that between 1980 and 2010, the percentage of private sector workers with a 401(k) has risen from 10 to 30 percent.

Illustration shows a man wearing glasses and a backpack looking with disappointment at a piece of paper that says, "Class of 2018 average student debt: $29,800."

Illustration shows a frame divided by a road that leads toward US Capitol building in the middle. From the Capitol, a green money arrow points left, toward a cityscape, a park, houses, and a construction worker, labeled "New Deal"; and another money arrow points toward the right side labeled "War Effort," depicting military vehicles, weapons, and factories.

Woman wearing earrings and a blouse smiles at us while a man wearing a suit and bowtie talks to us, in front of a digital cityscape background.

Split-screen interview. On the left, a woman with curly brown hair is blinking while on the right, a woman with straight red hair is speaking.

Mustachioed man wearing a zip-up hoodie talks to us, while on the right a cool dude wearing sunglasses, braces, and a lei points at himself with thumbs up.

Shocked emoji next to the outline of a line graph labeled 2008 that shows a sudden sharp drop-off.

Woman wearing a cheetah-print shirt and denim jacket sits in an office chair while speaking to us. Her desk is decorated with prints and art.

Man furrows his brow while speaking to us in front of a purple crosshatch-patterned digital background.

Infographic shows a cartoon man on vacation looking over at a set of numbers under the header "Compound interest calculator." The infographic identifies an annual addition of $4,420, a 7% interest rate, and a resulting $25,891 after ten years.

Victor R Fuchs sits next to a quote of his that says, "... 'choke points' for diverse interest groups to block or modify the government's role."

Illustration shows a biblical-looking man with a white beard wearing a red tunic. Next to this is a tall building with a punny name and a flower illustration on the sign, "too scents," with scents spelled S C E N T S.

Woman wearing a mustard-yellow blouse speaks to us emphatically, standing before a spooky green-glowing background that resembles a cave, and next to a framed illustrated portrait of a winged goblin wearing human clothes. The portrait is labeled, "Non-profit debt counselor."

Infographic shows a cartoon woman wearing a formal top, skirt, and heels with her hands on her hips, next to a bar graph that shows a green bar labeled "10% payouts above the horizontal line and a red bar below the line.

Woman wearing an ornate necklace with her hair in braids blinks as she speaks to us from an interior space.

Woman gestures with her hands while speaking to us, standing before a digital background with an illustration of a man wearing gray pants, a red shirt, and sneakers.

Man speaks to us while gesturing with his hands, standing before a blue crosshatch-patterned digital background.

Man speaks to us while gesturing with his hands, standing before a blue lace-like patterned digital background.

Cartoon shows a ponytailed woman posing in front of an unlabeled pie chart divided into a large green section, a smaller yellow section, and an even smaller orange section.

Woman wearing a floral-printed and striped shirt speaks to us as a screenshot of a March 14, 2020, New York Times article comes into view. The photo shows a man standing in front of tall shelves stocked with boxes, hand sanitizer, cleaning wipes and other products. The headline and sub headline read, "He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them. Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks."

Man with a mustache speaks to us. Next to him is an illustration of a man sitting at a desk with four screens showing different graphs.

Woman wearing a colorful button-down top speaks to us from a home office interior.

Infographic shows a woman holding her hands up, explaining a diagram next to her. At the top of the infographic is a circle that contains the label “$500 a month.” This circle points to two categories: a circle containing the label “Insurance” and a piggy bank labeled “Cash Value.” Below the piggy bank is another arrow that points to a circle labeled “4-6%.”

Woman holds her hands up, explaining the clip art next to her, a yellow house with a sign in the front yard that reads, “For Sale.”

Split screen shows a woman on the left speaking to us. On the right is a vertical bar chart labeled “last 30 years.” A short gold bar labeled “Gold” is marked at 280%. A taller gray bar labeled “DOW” stands beside it, marked at “839%.”

Woman standing in front of a purple background raises her eyebrows as if she is about to tell us something.

Man stands next to the label “auto-renewal,” wearing athletic gear with headphones slung around his neck. Below the label is a clipart of a credit card and the label “Jan” for January.

Man holds his fists up, explaining the three digital art photos next to him. The first is a depiction of two people holding up glasses of wine at a restaurant. The second is a woman holding books in front of a school. The third is a woman standing in front of a house looking at a yard sign that reads, “For rent, $900/mo.”

Man standing in front of a festive silver holiday background explaining something to us.

Black and white photo. In the foreground is a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, labeled Secretary of the Treasury, 1861. In the background are Union soldiers during the Civil War standing next to a large cannon.

Looking baffled, a woman holds her hands up. Next to her is a list of words. The first is crossed out with a red line, reading, “1. Safety.” The second reads, “2. Taste.” The third reads, “3. Convenience.”

Stack of papers sits on top of a wood surface. The top document titled, "The Wizard (Lawyer)" shows a long-haired character with pointy ears, holding a staff, next to text that describes their character.

Smiling woman closes her eyes and clasps her hands next to a man explaining something to us.

Looking very serious, a woman stands next to a man, explaining something to us.

Against a blue background, a woman speaks to us.

Man wearing a chef's uniform stands in front of a red food truck decorated with hot dogs with a worker standing at the order window. Next to him is a label that reads, 25%.

Man stands in front of a diagram, in the style of an old ocean map. On one side is a ship with three sails, with three lines of color flowing towards a stack of gold. Each line is labeled with different types of investments. The top line is labeled, “bond funds.” The middle line is labeled “Certificate of Deposit Series 1 Savings Bond.” The bottom line is labeled, “savings account.”

Speaking enthusiastically, a man stands in front of a photo of stars twinkling in a night sky. Five stars shine brighter than the others. Two of the stars are connected by a line, indicating a constellation.

Woman explains a photo next to her depicting a civil rights protest. In the photo is a crowd of people holding hands, marching, and holding signs. One sign says, “End segregated rules in public schools.” Another says, “We demand voting rights now!” Another says, “Jobs for all now!”

Looking pained, a woman stands in front of digital artwork of the inside of an airplane. We see rows and rows of purple seats leading to the curtains at the back of the airplane.

Holding up his hands, a man speaks to us. Next to him is a clipart of a worried woman lying in bed.

On a split screen, a man speaks to the camera. To his left is the digital art of a stack of documents that are labeled, “CBO. Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from October 2011 Through December 2011.

Raising her eyebrows, a woman speaks to us on a split screen. To her left is text that reads, “unemployment insurance.”

Speaking to us, a woman stands in front of a graphic with a stack of cash that reads, “Treasury Issue, $3,000,000,000,000. 2.9% interest.”

Digital art. A hand holding cash reaches out towards an old man and woman smiling and looking at the cash.

Woman looks slightly up and points at camera. Next to her are a few file folders and the backdrop is a closeup of file folder labels. Caption. I saved receipts and cancelled checks.

Low shot looking up at a young woman writing on a legal pad with a calm expression on her face. Caption. Remember the differences between a need and a desire.

Side view of a man and woman with dark hair inside a dimly lit ornate building looking up. Several marble pillars on shiny floors are visible behind them. Caption. In June 1923, the neoclassical H, S, B, C building was completed.

Several large, leafless trees in a brown field appear against a cloudy winter sky. Caption. And supplier of trading products to the East.

Closeup of a man with white hair and mustache wearing a black suit with a light blue collared shirt and red tie in front of an illuminated blue window background. Caption. New rules come out of Washington every day.

Large red crane lifts a red and black shipping container in front of many other colorful shipping containers stacked on top of each other. Caption. Today, Amsterdam is regarded as a leading port in Europe.

Corner of Wall Street in dim light with 2 N, Y, P, D squad cars parked at the corner while several people in suits walk by in the background. Several American flags are displayed on a building on the right. Caption. But things are different now.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: The Future of Money