TLDR News
Is CANZUK the UK's Best Shot Post Brexit? The $3.5 Trillion Hypothetical Grouping - TLDR News
Having left the EU the UK's now looking for new friends. One place that they could look is towards their English speaking allies in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Together these countries could make the CANZUK group of nations a...
TLDR News
Will The EU Collapse After The UK Leaves? - Brexit Explained
There are many people who believe that without the United Kingdom the European Union is in major trouble. So are they right, will the EU fall apart without the UK?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Barry Eichengreen: Learning from the Past to Design the Future (3/4)
Alan Murray, Executive Editor of the Wall Street Journal, moderates the panel What Can We Learn from the Past in Designing the Future? on INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011: Part 3 of 4 with Barry Eichengreen, Professor of...
Python Programmer
EDA Python - 21-Pandas_Geo_1
In this part 5 of the EDA project, we plot covid-19 data onto a map using geopandas.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Andy Haldane: The Global Market and Nation States (1/7)
The video shows the panel Sovereignty and Institutional Design in the Global Age at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Andy Haldane, Executive Director, Financial Stability, Bank of England....
Mister Simplify
Hofstede's 6D Model of National Culture - Simplest Explanation Ever
Geert Hofstede's Model of National Culture is a study of different cultures to understand how human beings communicate with one another and process information in their minds. The goal is to be able to communicate better with one and...
Economics Explained
How The Economy Of Japan Could Predict The Next Decade_: Japan's Economy, Past & Present
Is there something unique about the economy of Japan which is causing this stagnation or is it finally time to admit that endless growth in a finite world is not sustainable for any economy? And if Japan really is just ahead of the...
Curated Video
A2 English Listening Practice - Elementary School
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of elementary school. The subtitles are included at the bottom of...
Curated Video
Which countries allow an option other than male or female on passports?
Eight countries allow citizens to apply for a passport without choosing a specific gender. Can you guess which?
Step Back History
Why Do We Still Have NATO?
Why does a Cold War military alliance still exist today? What role does it play in Putin's cyber warfare campaigns?
TLDR News
Coronavirus Bar Chart Race: How the Disease Crossed the World - TLDR News
Coronavirus continues to spread around the world, so we thought we'd rewind to the beginning of the crisis to show you how the virus spread around the world. In this video, we use all of the WTO's situation reports, to show which...
TLDR News
Why Do Migrants Want to Come to the UK? The Appeal of Britain to Refugees Explained - TLDR News
With footage of asylum seekers and migrants crossing the channel to get to Britain, some are beginning to question why they're making the trip at all. I mean, they've already made it to Western Europe, why then risk your life in a dinghy...
Curated Video
How Africa could one day rival China
Africa is changing so fast, it is becoming hard to ignore. In the short term the continent faces many problems, including covid-19, but in the long term it could rival China's economic might.
Religion for Breakfast
Animism: The First Religion?
Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should we categorize it? This video was...
The Economist
A softer Brexit is better: what can Britain learn from Norway?
When Britons voted to leave the EU two years ago today, they had no chance to say what sort of Brexit they wanted. With only six months left to negotiate a deal, could lessons be learned from Norway?
Curated Video
Who will win the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
The 2018 FIFA World Cup has begun, but who is likely to win? The Economist has scoured historical data and analysed dozens of factors to try to determine which country's team will lift the iconic trophy.
TLDR News
Coronavirus Deaths Reach 100,000 Covid Bar Chart Race - TLDR News.
We track the shifting death rates across the countries hardest hit by Covid-19, discussing how different policies have effected the rankings.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Does India have Twice the Productivity of Capital Compared to China - Sir James Mirrlees
Sir James Mirrlees, Nobel Laureate, notes that China does not use its capital as efficiently as India, even though their overall growth rates are about the same. As an economist, he is fascinated by this discrepancy, and says that it...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich - What the 19th Century US Can Teach Today's Europe About Sovereign Debt
If the countries in the European periphery defaulted on their debt, the euro as a common currency breaks down. This contention is used as an argument for bailouts and rescue packages, and Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich says it's wrong. He draws...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ian Goldin, Sanjeev Goyal, Frank Kelly, J. Doyne Farmer - Networks and Systemic Risks
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 2 Q&A: What Kind of Theory to Guide Reform and Restructuring of the Financial and Non-Financial Sectors?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Charles Dallara: The Architecture of Asia - INET Panel (2 of 7)
Charles Dallara is the Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance, and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Massimo Cingolani: Identifying Weaknesses in the Eurozone
The great achievement of the EU has been to reduce the probability of violent nationalist conflict among some of its members to a vanishing small probability while improving the economic lot of its members. But in spite of the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Banking on Recovery
In part 2 of INET's interview with Erik Berglöf, the subject is why countries that invested in exports fared better than those that invested in real estate -- and why it was good to have foreign banking leverage
SWPictures
BATTLE FOR THE GULF - A Summer Cloud
At the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq was close to bankruptcy because of President Saddam Hussein’s military spending and his attempts to build nuclear weapons. The U.S. had sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq's eight-year war with...