The lessons from Khan Academy are some of clearest, most distilled courses I've seen. https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/monet

The lessons from Khan Academy are some of clearest, most distilled courses I've seen. https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/monetary-system-topic https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroec... Salman Khan, its founder, used to be a hedge fund analyst. I won't read hundreds of pages of dry economics any time soon. But maybe the books recommended in the article would be useful as a reference.