Daily habit · 60 seconds
Street Economics
Economics isn't in a textbook, it's on your block. Five cards a day: read the scene, guess the principle, get the reveal. Keep the streak going.
Card 1 of 5
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Two buyers get the same car. One takes 48 months, one takes 84 for a lower payment.
Who pays more?
Take a guess in your head first — then reveal.
Quiz
Test your economics
How one person, one shop, or one market makes choices.
A new game console drops with only a few units at each store, and lines wrap around the block.
Why do resale prices jump way above the store price?
Explain it back
Why price rises when supply is tight
Say it in your own words — no textbook language. You get scored on understanding, not vocabulary.
What's in the deck
20 scenes covering scarcity, fixed vs. variable cost, dynamic pricing, margin, opportunity cost, float, liquidity, working capital, customer lifetime value and risk transfer.
- Scarcity + demand
- Fixed vs. variable cost
- Dynamic pricing
- Convenience premium
- Gross vs. net margin
- Opportunity cost
- Framing + cash-flow illusion
- Interest over time
- Cost of thin margins
- Economies of scale
- Risk vs. upside
- Float
- Assets vs. liquidity
- Marginal revenue
- Fixed overhead vs. flexibility
- Customer lifetime value
- Effective hourly rate
- Underpricing + secondary markets
- Working capital
- Risk transfer
Great for classrooms and programs
Schools, nonprofits and community groups use these as a five-minute warm-up before the real lesson. Ask us how it fits your program.