Every price on your screen is downstream of an economy. Most traders never learn the machinery underneath it, then wonder why the tape stops behaving at 8:30. Five stages and forty modules on what the big numbers actually measure, and how they reach the thing you own.
Want to see the data first? Economic Analysis is free and always will be — thirty Federal Reserve indicators, arranged in the same five blocks this course teaches. Read it, then decide.
The Full Course
All five stages unlock with a single one-time $37.95 payment. One account, lifetime access, no subscription.
What You'll Be Able To Do
This course will not tell you what happens next week — nobody can, and the people who claim otherwise have a poor record. It gives you the thing that actually compounds: knowing which regime you are in, what the market has already priced, and which risks your positions genuinely carry.
A Sample of What's Inside
Nine of the relationships worked through across the course. Each one comes with the arithmetic, a worked example, and the free data series where you can watch it move.
| Concept | The number | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Real return | Nominal return − Inflation | 4% in a savings account with 6% inflation is a 2% annual loss of purchasing power |
| Real policy rate | Policy rate − Inflation | A 5% rate with 7% inflation is stimulative; 2% with 0% inflation is restrictive |
| GDP | C + I + G + (X − M) | Which component moved matters far more than the headline — inventories flatter a quarter and borrow from the next |
| Breakeven inflation | Nominal yield − TIPS yield | What the bond market expects inflation to average, updated daily rather than monthly |
| Nominal yield | ≈ Real yield + Breakeven | Decomposing a yield move tells you whether it was a growth story or an inflation story |
| Bond duration | ≈ % price fall per 1% yield rise | A 10-year at duration 8.5 loses about 8.5% when yields rise a point |
| Diffusion index (PMI) | %better + (0.5 × %same) | Above 50 is expansion — 48 does not mean the sector shrank 2% |
| Credit spread | Corporate yield − Government yield | Widens in days, narrows over months; widening while equities rally is the classic warning |
| Balance of payments | Current account + Capital account ≈ 0 | A trade deficit is necessarily matched by capital flowing in — they are one transaction, described twice |
Who This Is For
Following the headlines is not the same as understanding the machinery underneath them. Closing that gap is what this course is about — at a one-time $37.95.
Everything in this course is public, released on a schedule, and read within milliseconds by institutions with far more resources than you. You are not going to out-react them on the print, and the course says so rather than pretending otherwise. What macro literacy gives you instead is durable: you understand why markets moved rather than being surprised by scheduled events, you can see which risks your positions actually carry, and you can read financial media critically instead of absorbing it. That is a risk-management edge, not a speed edge.
Free, before you decide
Nothing on this site is a teaser. Two full courses, every calculator and the whole Markets section are free and need no account — and they are the reason we can ask you to buy anything at all. Start there, and buy this only if it earned it.
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Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis and Trading Psychology, plus this one — 160 modules, five stages each, one payment, lifetime access.
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