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Stock Market Basics

A free curriculum that takes you from zero to confident investor.

7 lessons·39 min total
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  1. Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market
    01·Chapter
    7:00

    Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market

    A beginner-friendly walkthrough of how the stock market actually works - what stocks and shares are, the role of exchanges, brokers and regulators, how to open and fund your first brokerage account, and the foundational concepts of assets, liabilities, risk and return, inflation, interest rates, and compounding. Distilled from Pomegra's full 'The Absolute Basics' chapter to take complete newcomers from zero to confident.

  2. How Trades Are Executed
    02·Chapter
    5:00

    How Trades Are Executed

    What actually happens between clicking 'buy' and owning a share? A short walkthrough of the five stages every stock order travels through - order creation, your broker's best-execution duty, routing across exchanges and market makers, the matching engine, and T+1 settlement at the clearinghouse - that demystifies the hidden machinery behind a 'one-click' trade.

  3. Your Investor's Toolkit
    03·Chapter
    5:00

    Your Investor's Toolkit

    The practical toolkit every new investor needs before placing their first trade - market orders, limit orders, and stop-loss orders explained in plain English, plus how index funds and ETFs let you own a diversified slice of the entire market in a single product.

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What is Money, Really?

A short course on where money came from, what makes it work, and why we still trust it.

15 lessons·1 hr 13 min total
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  1. The Barter Problem: Why Money Actually Exists
    01·Chapter
    5:00

    The Barter Problem: Why Money Actually Exists

    Before there was money, there was a problem. A short walkthrough of the 'double coincidence of wants' that made barter break down, the workarounds early societies tried (debt ledgers, multi-hop trades, forced exchange rates), and how money quietly emerged as the elegant solution - not by decree, but by shared agreement on what counts as valuable.

  2. Money: The Three Essential Functions Explained
    02·Chapter
    5:00

    Money: The Three Essential Functions Explained

    Why is some money 'good' and other money broken? A short walkthrough of the three jobs every functioning currency has to do - medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value - why all three are required, and how hyperinflation, gold, cowrie shells, and digital currencies all map onto the same framework.

  3. Gold, Salt, and Cattle as Money
    03·Chapter
    5:00

    Gold, Salt, and Cattle as Money

    Before there were coins, there were commodities - useful things that doubled as money. A short walkthrough of why salt, cattle, and gold became the world's first currencies, the five properties that decided which commodities won, and the built-in instability of money you could also eat, milk, or wear.

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The Economic Machine

A plain-English walkthrough of Ray Dalio’s framework for how economies grow, cycle, and contract.

18 lessons·1 hr 29 min total
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  1. The Three Fundamental Drivers
    01·Chapter
    3:26

    The Three Fundamental Drivers

    Every economy - no matter how complex it looks - is powered by three simple forces working in a loop. A short walkthrough of Ray Dalio's three fundamental drivers - productivity, transactions, and credit - and how their interplay explains everything from everyday spending to booms, busts, and the policy levers governments pull during a recession.

  2. What Is an Economy? Definition & Meaning
    02·Chapter
    5:50

    What Is an Economy? Definition & Meaning

    An economy is the system a society uses to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. Learn its meaning, components, and the 3 questions it answers.

  3. How Money, Credit, and Debt Flow Through the Economy
    03·Chapter
    4:14

    How Money, Credit, and Debt Flow Through the Economy

    Where does money actually come from, and how does credit turn into debt? A short walkthrough of how money, credit, and debt move through an economy - the three jobs money does, how credit creates purchasing power before savings exist, why every credit transaction creates a matching debt, and the line between sustainable borrowing and a debt spiral.

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Commodities

How physical markets work - from grain storage and seasonal basis to the mechanics that connect futures prices to the real world.

23 lessons·1 hr 53 min total
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  1. Agricultural Futures Basis
    01·Chapter
    4:29

    Agricultural Futures Basis

    Why don't farmers get paid the futures price when they sell their crop? The answer is basis - the gap between the futures contract price and the local spot price. A short walkthrough of cost-of-carry mechanics, how basis shifts from negative at harvest to positive pre-harvest, why farmers hedge at 'futures minus basis', and how the delivery mechanism keeps the two prices tethered together at expiration.

  2. Aluminium
    02·Chapter
    4:05

    Aluminium

    Aluminium is the most abundant metal in Earth's crust - yet it costs more than copper. The reason is electricity. A short walkthrough of the Hall-Héroult smelting process that makes aluminium energy-intensive to produce, why China sets the global price, how recycling slashes energy use by 90-95%, and what the rise of 'green aluminium' premiums means for the market.

  3. Antimony
    03·Chapter
    4:05

    Antimony

    Antimony is a brittle silver-white metalloid that quietly underpins modern electronics and fire safety - yet most investors have never heard of it. A short walkthrough of why China controls 60% of global supply, how antimony ends up in flame retardants and semiconductor dopants, why the futures market is thin and price-volatile, and what regulatory headwinds could do to long-term demand.

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GDP and Growth

What gross domestic product actually measures, how it is calculated, and what it misses - the number behind every headline about a growing or shrinking economy.

4 lessons·19 min total
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  1. What is GDP?
    01·Chapter
    4:50

    What is GDP?

    Gross domestic product is the single number economists reach for when they want to know whether a country is growing or shrinking. A plain-English walkthrough of what GDP actually measures - the market value of all finished goods and services produced inside a country's borders - the three ways it can be calculated, why real GDP matters more than the nominal headline, what GDP per capita reveals about living standards, and the large slices of economic life the number quietly leaves out.

  2. Nominal vs Real GDP
    02·Chapter
    4:28

    Nominal vs Real GDP

    A headline that says the economy grew 5% can be almost entirely inflation. This lesson separates the two GDP figures every economist keeps side by side - nominal GDP, measured at current-year prices, and real GDP, measured at constant base-year prices - and shows why only the second one tells you whether people can actually buy more. Covers the rough subtraction that gets you from one to the other, how the gap compounds across decades of historical comparisons, and why statistical agencies keep moving the base year.

  3. The GDP Deflator Explained
    03·Chapter
    4:23

    The GDP Deflator Explained

    If real GDP strips inflation out of the headline number, something has to measure that inflation - and it isn't CPI. The GDP deflator is the ratio of nominal to real GDP expressed as an index, and it covers everything GDP covers: investment goods, government purchases and exports, not just the consumer basket. A walkthrough of how it's built, why it disagrees with CPI, why it gets revised repeatedly, and how to use it to tell price-driven growth apart from real production.

More videos

Weekly market insights, geopolitical breakdowns, and standalone tutorials.

2 videos
April 2026 AI Arms Race
5:00
AI Market Insights

April 2026 AI Arms Race

Pomegra's April 2026 weekly insights video on the accelerating AI arms race - model launches, hyperscaler capex, sovereign AI initiatives, and what each shift means for portfolios and the broader market.

Strait of Hormuz March 2026 Overview
6:00
Geopolitical Analysis

Strait of Hormuz March 2026 Overview

This video outlines the systemic economic consequences of a potential U.S.-Iran conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. While military strikes might achieve tactical goals like damaging nuclear facilities, they ignore the broader global contagion a conflict would cause - from supply chain freeze and oil prices soaring to $130–$180 per barrel, to the paralysis of the IMEC corridor, the vulnerability of U.S. AI compute infrastructure offshored to Gulf states, and the risk of a leaderless Iranian insurgency targeting energy and digital assets.