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Racial Inequality in America: A Historical and Present-Day Analysis
This video examines the history and current state of racial inequality in the U.S., focusing on the experiences of Black Americans. It covers the impact of historic practices like slavery, Jim Crow laws, and redlining on wealth,...
Curated Video
Prioritization with the Pareto Principle - the 80-20 Rule
Deciding what is important can be bewildering when you have too much choice. You need to prioritize. And a simple tool is the 80-20 Rule - properly known as the Pareto Principle.
Financial Times
Inheritance tax: a contentious levy ripe for reform?
Whether you believe inheritance tax helps fight inequality or is an unfair additional tax on the wealthy, it accounts for just 0.5 per cent of total tax revenues across the countries that levy it. But as the FT’s Stefan Wagstyl reports,...
Financial Times
Is wealth management changing for women?
Women are controlling more of the world’s wealth, but is the wealth management industry adapting to the change? We talk to three leading female wealth managers.
MarketWatch
What it means to be a millionaire and how to get there
According to a recent Federal Reserve survey, the average American's net worth is just over $1 million. So are most Americans truly millionaires? And how can you achieve that status?
Curated Video
ChatGPT Voice-Powered Chatbot Build with React and FastAPI - About Docs and Endpoints
In this video, we will discuss the importance of documentation and define our endpoints to handle voice recording and chatbot conversations. This clip is from the chapter "Backend Build - Working with AI" of the series "ChatGPT...
Professor Dave Explains
The Basics of Investing (Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and Types of Interest)
In order to generate significant wealth, one must invest their money. But how does investment work? What does one invest in? What are stocks, bonds, and mutual funds? If you are earning money on an investment, what type of interest in...
Curated Video
Department of Commerce
The Department of Commerce is one of the largest, most powerful of U.S. government agencies. Its mission? To “create the conditions for economic growth and opportunities for all communities.”
The Business Professor
Socialism
Socialism is a political philosophy and movement encompassing a wide range of economic and social systems which are characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
Mr. Beat
Who is George Soros?
For years, I was biased against George Soros. After exhaustive research for this video, I am now just indifferent about him. Here is everything you should know about one of the world's most hated men, George Soros.
Mr. Beat
The American Urban/Rural Political Divide
Mr. Beat explains why rural voters tend to lean more to the right politically and why urban voters tend to lean more to the left politically.
PBS
Should I Invest in Gold?
In times of uncertainty, gold can seem like an attractive option... but is it really a viable long-term investment?
PBS
How Home Loans Segregated America
For decades, the American Dream of owning a house was denied to certain segments of the population... and we are still living with the effects today.
PBS
Does Wealth Make You Meaner?
Books and movies love to show wealthy people as cruel, unfeeling, and miserly. Turns out science has an explanation for why greater amounts of wealth can turn us into Scrooges. Should you just avoid growing your wealth… or is there a...
PBS
Is It Evil to Be a Billionaire?
A billion dollars is more money than any person would ever need in a lifetime. With so much poverty and inequality in the world, is it evil just to have that much?
PBS
Unique Money Traditions from Around the World!
Take a tour around the world with us to see the variety of money customs from different cultures!
Curated Video
Necessary Evils?
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) discusses how many of the problems currently besetting modern China were anticipated by Mao.
Curated Video
Elite Capture and Societal Inequality
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes two concerns that were as important in ancient Athens are they are today: elite capture and political inequality.
Curated Video
Spanish Exploration of the New World
Spanish Exploration of the New World investigates the Spanish exploration of the New World by researching details of travel and motivations.
Curated Video
Vice President
When you think of American tough guys, who springs to mind? Probably not the President. But two-term Commander-in-Chief Teddy Roosevelt was hard as nails.
Curated Video
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
The Gilded Age was a period of unprecedented industrial and economic growth in the United States – but were the men at the helm captains of industry or robber barons out for their own?
Schooling Online
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - Context
Ever heard of the phrase ‘life imitates art’? Well, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s case, it was ‘art imitates life’! If you think The Great Gatsby is a wild tale, wait until you hear about Fitzgerald’s ride from rags to riches and back again!...
Schooling Online
Emily Dickinson - I Had Been Hungry, All The Years
If you’ve been an outsider for a long time, what happens when you’re suddenly included? If you’re used to getting by on very little, how does it feel to have an abundance of everything? In ‘I had been hungry, all the Years’, Emily...