I would like to engage in a group discussion that would explore the dynamics of contemporary economics in an effort to understand such concepts as: the Federal Reserve, Equity vs. Equities, Hawkish vs. Dove-ish economic policies, the consolidation of debt, and in general, the abstraction of concepts like capital, debt, indexes, futures, etc, into very veiled notions.

This course would ideally be supplemented by readings of a historical nature, i.e., earlier writings of economists like Thorstein Veblen, Milton Friedman, et al.