Hip Hughes History
The Eighth Amendment Explained: The Constitution for Dummies Series
Continuing the Constitution for Dummies Series with the Bill of Rights and Amendment 8 with an emphasis on the death penalty.. Explained simply so you can understand the Constitution of the United States.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Samuel Abrams - Education and the Commercial Mindset
Samuel E. Abrams is the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was previously a high school teacher of economics and history for eighteen years. His recent...
Food Farmer Earth
David Korten: Assessing Capitalism's Impact on Democracy and Society
David Korten critiques the current capitalist system for exacerbating economic disparities and undermining the democratic process, suggesting that it operates counter to the interests of the broader society by prioritizing corporate...
The Wall Street Journal
Hello Private Capital
Private capital markets have leapfrogged public markets to become the most popular way for companies to raise cash in the U.S. - $2.4 trillion raised privately last year alone. That has implications for how companies operate and are...
Global Ethics Solutions
Good Company, Part 3: Be the Organization That People Want to Work For, Partner With, Invest In, and Buy From
What is “good company”? What does it mean to be “good company”? It is the organization that people want to associate with — the organization that is successful and strong to the core. Topics include reasons to operate a business in an...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Kevin Gallagher: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Since the revival of global capital markets in the 1960s, cross-border capital flows have increased by orders of magnitude, so much so that international asset positions now outstrip global economic output. Most cross-border capital...
Curated Video
How Unregulated Finance is Killing Democracy
The twin threats of right-wing populism and unencumbered financial capitalism pose a crisis for democracy across the world, argues Robert Kuttner in his new book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? In his new book, American...
The Wall Street Journal
Blockchain Comes Of Age?
How is this new technology actually affecting business - who's doing it right, and who's doing it wrong?
The Wall Street Journal
The Sport Entrepreneur's Blueprint
As the sports industry embraces betting and e-sports, how does the game change?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
David Weinstein - When Banks Fail, the Case of Japan
What happens to Main Street when Wall Street fails? Japan expert David Weinstein squeezes a unique data set to answer this question. While in the US you will find data on banks and data on firms separately, in Japan there's data that...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
In 2010, the 500 largest companies in the United States, otherwise known as The Fortune 500, generated $10.7 trillion in sales, reaped a whopping $702 billion in profits, and employed 24.9 million people around the world. Historically...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jeff Sachs - Money Talks: The Distortion of Money in Democracy 2/5
In Part 2 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about money in American politics. Sachs sees a "system of legalized corruption" that has distorted political outcomes....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
William Lazonick - How Government Helps, and Wall Street Hurts, the Innovative Enterprise
Innovation drives economic growth and welfare, and the industrial corporation drives innovation, says William Lazonick. But just how do corporations innovate? The key idea is commitment. People with knowledge of and experience in...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
China’s Coming Debt Crisis?
The condition of the Chinese economy is increasingly becoming a significant factor exorcising the minds of global policy makers. Even though China’s most recent data has shown signs of stabilization (and the current turmoil in the...
The Wall Street Journal
The Eye of the Activist
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital, talks with WSJ Business Editor Jamie Heller at the WSJ D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. about why he avoids investing in tech and advocates for one shareholder, one vote.
Financial Times
GameStop's wild ride: how Redditors took on Wall Street
An army of retail investors gathered on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum to take on short-selling hedge funds and send shares in video game retailer GameStop, and several other 'meme stocks', on a rollercoaster ride. This film explains how...
The Telegraph
Glenn Greenwald on why the left-wing media has turned on Biden | Off Script
Twenty years of lies from the military establishment cannot be forgotten. Journalist Glenn Greenwald asks why no one has taken accountability for the Afghanistan debacle and argues for a new system of transparency. Greenwald joins Steven...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Sol Wisenberg: Upholding the Rule of Law
Here we are, some 7 years after the Great Financial Crisis, and not one senior banking executive has gone to jail. Extraordinary though it may seem, soon to retire Attorney General Eric Holder did not find at least find one token case to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Economy’s Cuban Missile Crisis
In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks. Adam Tooze, Columbia University historian and author of the new book Crashed: How a Decade of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Politics and the Sociology of the Economics Profession - James Galbraith
James Galbraith, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, notes that many economics institutions (especially journals and academic departments) are hierarchical and tribal by nature, and that sociology can exclude dissident views....
Wonderscape
Money Kids: The Stock Market
This video provides an overview of the stock market, explaining what stocks are, how the stock market works, and how investors can make money through buying and selling stocks. It also touches on the history of stock exchanges, the...
The Wall Street Journal
Investing In A Data-Driven Future
The world's biggest search and advertising giant is going all-in on data and artificial intelligence. Playing a key role in that evolution is Ruth Porat, Alphabet and Google's SVP and CFO, who speaks with WSJ's Jason Anders.
The Wall Street Journal
The Case For Crypto
After a stunning rise in 2017, the market for digital currencies has been dragged down by a broad investor retreat. What can the industry expect next? Brian Armstrong and Zoe Cruz sit down with WSJ's Jamie Heller.