This book provides answers Lo rhese and orher quesLions by examining how financial markers (such as Lhose for bonds, sLacks , and foreign exchange) and financial insritutions (banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and other institutions) work and by exploring the role of money in the economy Financial markets and institutions not only affect your everyday life but also involve flows of trillions of dollars of funds throughout our economy, which in turn affect business profits , the production of goods and services, and even Lhe economic well-being of coumries orher rhan Lhe Unired States. 

本书通过研究金融市场（如债券、休闲裤和外汇）和金融机构（银行、保险公司、共同基金、，金融市场和金融机构不仅影响你的日常生活，而且涉及到数以万亿美元计的资金在整个经济中的流动，进而影响商业利润、商品和服务的生产，甚至是库尔米利州或是勒汉州的经济繁荣。金融市场、金融机构和货币所发生的一切都是非常重要的。