I am looking for an online resource to learn finances/economics/investment from the ground up.

I am using those three words because I do not know the difference quite well. The bottom line is that I want to learn how money works, and stop “selling my time for money” (working for some employer). Maybe starting a business, investing in real state, or stock market, maybe another route that I don’t even see…

  • I am looking for content ideally free, but good material deserves to be paid too.
  • Progressive complexity starting from little or no assumptions: several youtubers have all-over-the-place topics that they comment on, assuming you know what they are talking about.
  • Perhaps a book or series of books is the solution to this? Or an online course? But you know, every “money bro” says they have the best book/course ever.

thanks for your comments :)

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    1. Michael Lewis’s The Real Price of everything. (Rediscovering the six classics of economics)

    2. The Ascent of Money by Niall Fergusen

    3. Quinn and Turner’s Boom and Bust a Global History of Financial Bubbles.

    4. Michael Lewis’s the Big Short. Entertaining sure, but a key element here is understanding synthetics. Think about classical supply and demand in an era of “synthetics”.

    Then wikipedia the greater fool theory, regulatory capture.

    1. Stockholm Resilience Centre Planetary Boundaries

    2. David Foot - Boom, Bust and Echo

    The most important thing is that when it comes to money and finance, most of the easily accessible material will tell you an idealized version of how things are supposed to work, not how they really work. See regulatory capture again.

    Also, note that the people who are most knowledgable about the global financial system, banks and Investment Houses don’t make money on the “assets” they create. They make money selling it to rubes like you. That tells you what you need to know.