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An overview of judicial independence, the three-tier structure of the federal courts (district courts, courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court), the appellate process, and the power of judicial review — Chapter 8 of the Constitutional Law Basics series.
Corporate income tax adjustments (book-tax differences), individual income tax structure, and the US sales and use tax framework — Chapter 8 of the US CPA Exam series.
Crimes against the state and public order under US federal law — treason, sedition, espionage, bribery of public officials, obstruction of justice, perjury, and arson — including the federal statutes that govern each.
An overview of US special criminal procedures: plea bargaining and its constitutional requirements, the summary/misdemeanor process, the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial, and the juvenile justice system's emphasis on rehabilitation over punishment.
The three functions of money, the US money supply aggregates (M1, M2), the money multiplier and deposit creation, the Federal Reserve's four monetary policy tools, the inverse relationship between interest rates and bond prices, the quantity theory of money, and the Phillips curve trade-off.
The structure of the AD and AS curves, their shift factors, analysis of macroeconomic shocks, stagflation, supply-side shocks, and the Keynesian vs. Classical debate — the eighth lecture in the Economics Core series.