Governing in a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic can define a presidency. What lessons does history have to offer as a guide? Judy Woodruff reports and talks to former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was President Obama’s chief...

Prime Minister Thatcher was interviewed following two days of meetings in Washington with the newly-inaugurated President Ronald Reagan. She discusses the war in El Salvador, the prospects for a Reagan-Brezhnev summit, the nascent...

The coronavirus pandemic is causing immense economic damage. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has surged as businesses nationwide close down and are forced to lay off workers. Has the country ever experienced...

For millennia, the people of Britain had been using bronze to make tools and jewelry, and as a currency for trade. But around 800 BCE, that began to change: the value of bronze declined, causing social upheaval and an economic crisis—...

Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain't seen...

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks, which have...

In which John Green teaches you about the end of the Cold War and the presidency of George H.W. Bush. It was neither the best of times, nor the worst of times. On the domestic front, the first president Bush inherited the relative...

Keynesian economics, developed by influential economist John Maynard Keynes, focuses on countercyclical fiscal policy to smooth out the ups and downs of the business cycle. By adjusting government spending and taxation levels based on...

Though the early 1990s may have been characterized by financial optimism, Argentina was in a recession as Brazil’s 1998 monetary crisis sent shockwaves across the regional and global markets. Travel north to Ecuador and there was a very...

Over the last month, many economic forecasters have increased the likelihood of a recession in the next year to over 50%! Are you ready financially

Have you heard that inflation is spiraling out of control? Have you heard that we're in a recession? Have you heard that people have less spending power today than their parents did 30 years ago? If you're on social media (and who...

Joe Biden was president from 2021 to 2025, but he had a long career in politics prior to the getting elected. What's his story, and what were the major issues that marked his presidency? Let's find out.

Howcast - You know you're lucky to have a job at all in this economy, but you truly feel that you deserve more. What to do? Prove what you're worth.

Bank of England’s Andrew Bailey sees ‘signs of pick up’ in UK economySource: Reuters

Investing in the stock market always comes with at least some risk, but diversifying your portfolio with dividend stocks could provide guaranteed income regardless of market ups and downs. Here's what you should know.

As Americans are facing inflation pain points and recession fears, there have been many misconceptions about the state of the economy. Here are the key differences to know and how it affects your money.

In times of uncertainty, gold can seem like an attractive option... but is it really a viable long-term investment?

The economic numbers look bleak, but the stock market is strangely optimistic... Has it lost touch with reality?

You may have heard the word "depression" being tossed around lately, but before you panic, learn what it really means, and how we got out of one before.

In the 1980s Nauru was the richest country in the world on a per capita basis. Nauru's wealth can be entirely attributed to its deposits of Phosphate, a substance used in fertilizers. However, by the early 2000s they had completely run...

Economist Nouriel Roubini discusses potential Economic Megathreats including the end of globalization, easy money leading to stagflation, the growing debt crisis, AI's threat to worker and consumer-based economies, and climate change....

Inflation has been perhaps the single biggest issue facing the global economy over the past year and has proven far more persistent than most people originally assumed. But with central banks around the world all raising interest rates,...

Jean-Edouard Colliard is a financial regulation professor at HEC Paris. He previously worked as Economist at the European Central Bank where he gave policy advice to the ECB, including at the highest level. The video describes the recent...

After the pound collapsed under Liz Truss, most forecasted economic doom and gloom for the UK before Sunak's arrival and, since then, the pound's value has continued to rise. So in this video, we break down the three reasons behind this...