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Rates, inflation and growth are discussed as if everyone follows.
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Make sense of prices, wages and the news with real economics.
A course on economic thinking through everyday life. It covers supply and demand, inflation, incentives and trade-offs, using rent, groceries, jobs and headlines rather than graphs, so the news stops sounding like a foreign language.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I want to understand economics well enough to make sense of prices, wages, inflation and the news. Explain the core ideas through things I meet every day.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Business
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- What prompts this: the news, money decisions, work, or curiosity?
- Did you study any economics, and did it stick?
- Which economic word do you most want to actually understand: inflation, interest rates, GDP, or something else?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You have opinions and no framework
You know what you think about prices and cannot say why.
Econ at school was graphs
None of it connected to a rent increase or a pay rise.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06Scarcity and trade-offs
The one idea underneath everything else, in your own week.
Supply and demand, honestly
Why prices move, and where the simple story breaks.
Incentives
Why people and institutions do what they do, and how policy changes it.
Inflation and interest rates
What they are, how they connect, and what central banks are trying to do.
Wages, jobs and growth
How labour markets work and what GDP does and does not measure.
Reading the news
Applying the ideas to this week's headlines.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Explain prices and wages
See supply, demand and bargaining power in things you pay and are paid.
Understand inflation and interest rates
Know what they are, what moves them and why they matter to you.
Read economic news
Follow the argument in a headline and spot when it is missing something.
Ideas this course corrects
Economics is about money
It is about choices under scarcity. Money is one of the things it studies.
Economists agree on nothing
They agree on a great deal. The public disagreements are on the contested edges.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course on economic thinking through everyday life. It covers supply and demand, inflation, incentives and trade-offs, using rent, groceries, jobs and headlines rather than graphs, so the news stops sounding like a foreign language. It sits under Business in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I want to understand economics well enough to make sense of prices, wages, inflation and the news. Explain the core ideas through things I meet every day.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.