Back in 2019, three financial analysts sat in a Sydney café complaining about how no one understood what they actually did. "GDP? Inflation? People's eyes glaze over," Fiona Caldwell said. That conversation turned into Cavoriqena.
We're not here to make you an economist. We're here so you can read the business section without feeling lost, understand what the Reserve Bank actually means when they make announcements, and maybe even have opinions about it.
Five years of testing, failing, and figuring out what actually works when you're teaching people about the economy.
We tried teaching economic indicators like we learned them in university. Graphs, formulas, technical definitions. People nodded politely and never came back. Then Marcus Thorne suggested we start with grocery prices instead of CPI calculations. Everything changed after that.
We spent two years rebuilding our approach from scratch. Instead of "here's what GDP means," we started with "why did your groceries get more expensive?" The indicators became tools for understanding real life, not abstract concepts to memorize. Now people actually finish the programs.
These aren't corporate values we workshopped in a meeting. They're the practical beliefs that shape how we teach and what we refuse to compromise on.
If we can't explain it without jargon, we don't understand it well enough. Economic concepts aren't complicated—the language people use to describe them is.
We use actual Australian data from last month, not textbook scenarios from 1987. You learn with the same numbers you see in the news, so it connects immediately.
No such thing as a dumb question here. We've had finance professionals admit they didn't really understand terms they'd been using for years. Ask away.
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