Economics Explained
An Honest Discussion About A Universal Basic Income: What is UBI and what are its costs?
In this video we go over the pros and cons of a universal basic income. The US government spent over $5 trillion of economic stimulus and relief payments during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. This is enough money to give every adult in...
Economics Explained
An Honest Discussion About A Universal Basic Income: Inflation and Starting the Conversation
In this video we go over the pros and cons of a universal basic income. The US government spent over $5 trillion of economic stimulus and relief payments during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. This is enough money to give every adult in...
Economics Explained
An Honest Discussion About A Universal Basic Income: Taxes
In this video we go over the pros and cons of a universal basic income. The US government spent over $5 trillion of economic stimulus and relief payments during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. This is enough money to give every adult in...
Economics Explained
Why This Billionaire Wants To Give Every Baby $6,750 to Solve The Retirement Crisis?
This is bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager of Pershing square capital. Bill has been featured on this channel a few times before, most notably because of his trade made in early 2020 which netted him over 2.6 billion dollars...
Economics Explained
An Honest Discussion About A Universal Basic Income: Introduction
In this video we go over the pros and cons of a universal basic income. The US government spent over $5 trillion of economic stimulus and relief payments during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. This is enough money to give every adult in...
Economics Explained
How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can not Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes: The Gini Coefficient
The Economic Explained team uses Statista for conducting our research. Check out their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuj2... This is the Netherlands, a picturesque nation filled with windmills, tulip fields, and uhh...
Economics Explained
The Growing Generational Wealth Gap
It’s the hope of almost every generation in history that their children and grandchildren will go on to live wealthier more prosperous lives than their own. People put countless hours of thought and planning into things like their...
Economics Explained
Is Wealth Inequality Actually a Problem?: The Rise Of Wealth Inequality
The wealthiest among us today live a life unparalleled by any other human throughout history. The greatest Kings and emperors could only dream of the life afforded to today’s billionaires. It doesn’t end there, even mere...
Economics Explained
Is Wealth Inequality Actually a Problem?: Pushing Others Down
The wealthiest among us today live a life unparalleled by any other human throughout history. The greatest Kings and emperors could only dream of the life afforded to today’s billionaires. It doesn’t end there, even mere...
Economics Explained
Is Wealth Inequality Actually a Problem?: The Benefits Of Inequality
The wealthiest among us today live a life unparalleled by any other human throughout history. The greatest Kings and emperors could only dream of the life afforded to today’s billionaires. It doesn’t end there, even mere...
ACDC Leadership
Income Inequality- EconMovies #17
Hey internet, this is Jacob Clifford. Avengers: Endgame was awesome and it included some great examples to help you learn about income inequality. The goal of this episode was to help you see both sides of the deabte and introduce...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Measuring Economic Democracy
GDP doesn’t tell the whole story. The University of Glasgow’s Robert McMaster explains the Economic Democracy Index, which measures public decision-making at different levels of the economy.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Income Inequality: The Global Haves And Have-Nots In The 21st Century
Although inequality has recently become one of the current topics "de jour" in the economics profession, Branko Milanovic is certainly not a newbie to this area. Indeed, the World Bank economist and development specialist (currently a...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Future of the Safety Net
A lot has changed since our taxes and benefits were designed, and the consequences of delaying reform are rising. Harvard professor Karen Dynan has a proposal we all might be able to agree with before time runs out. In this interview,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Who Picked the Pockets of America’s Households?
The 2008 financial meltdown wiped out what was left of the savings of millions of American families, but Professor Edward Wolff says decades of income inequality had set the stage for the collapse of their household wealth.
Curated Video
The Role of Institutions in Developing Countries
In this video lecture, the speaker discusses the role of institutional frameworks in promoting economic development in developing countries. Specifically, the speaker focuses on the legal and financial systems and highlights how weak...
Curated Video
Should we tax the rich more?
Taxation is necessary in order to provide public services like roads, education and health care. But as the world's elderly population grows, and the demand for public services increases, countries will need to reassess how they tax....
Institute of Art and Ideas
Does society need centralised government?
Few take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government as a viable political goal.æYet in economics, capitalism is just such a leaderless anarchic system. Might a radically decentralised political system be more credible than we...
ACDC Leadership
Capitalism- EconMovies #10 Hunger Games
EconMovies explain economic concepts through movies. In this episode, I use The Hunger Games to explain the idea of specialization and comparative advantage. I also discuss the advatages and disadvantages of capitalism including the...
Bloomberg
Myths About Income Inequality
Sept. 15 -- Ed Conrad, author of "The Upside of Inequality," discusses income inequality and the sources of rising inequality. He speaks to Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal, Scarlet Fu and Matt Miller on "What'd You Miss?"
Bloomberg
How America's Racial Wealth Gap Began
May.07 -- White Americans have amassed almost seven times more wealth than Black Americans since the end of the Civil War. In the decades since the modern civil rights movement, that wealth gap has actually widened. This is the story of...
Bloomberg
Poorer Than Their Parents: The Income Inequality Crisis
Aug. 1 -- Richard Dobbs, senior partner at McKinsey Global Institute, and Erik Nielsen, global chief economist at UniCredit, discuss the global income inequality crisis and the potential for the younger generation to be poorer than their...
Bloomberg
El-Erian: Recent Income Gains Have Gone to the Rich
Oct. 23 -- Unintended Consequences Author Edward Conard, Economic Policy Institute Economist Elise Gould and Bloomberg View Columnist Mohamed El-Erian discuss income inequality on In The Loop. El-Erians opinions are his own. (Source:...
Bloomberg
Wall Street Votes: Inequality and Biden's Economic Plan
Aug.20 -- The coronavirus pandemic has led to the loss of millions of jobs in the U.S., and exacerbated the problem of large and growing income inequality across the country. So what is Joe Biden expected to do with the economy if he...