Curated Video
Understanding Business Legal Structures and Liability
The video is an educational presentation that discusses the different legal structures that businesses can have, and how those structures affect the liability of the business owners. The presenter explains the concept of unlimited...
MarketWatch
How the election can affect your investments
Historically, election season leads to a volatile market. Here's what that means for your investments.
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
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...
Blockchain Central
ICO VS IPO - What's The Difference?
This week on Blockchain Central: we'll look into the main differences between Initial Public Offerings (IPO) and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO). How to choose the right way of investing money and what are the risks of each of them?
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Depression - Declining Confidence
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Depression uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
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...
Financial Times
Gold is king but should you buy it?
Gold is king in times of crisis, and is seen as a safe haven for investors. However, as the FT's Robert Armstrong explains, it is also traditionally associated with fear, hoarding and inflation, and betting on gold is a bet against history
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class. INET Fellow and University of Bonn professor Moritz Schularick discusses the drivers of wealth inequality.
Financial Times
Spac mania: the blank-cheque blitz of 2020
Special purpose acquisition companies have taken Wall Street by storm. These shell companies raise money by listing on the stock exchange but have no business plan other than to acquire a company that will eventually go public. Spacs...
Curated Video
Covid-19: what will happen to the global economy?
The covid-19 pandemic has caused economic chaos and uncertainty. Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Edward Carr, our deputy editor, answer your questions about the global economy
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 Wall Street Journal
Airbnb and The Lowman Group On Becoming An Entrepreneur
Co-Founder of Airbnb, Nate Blecharczyk, and chief executive of The Lowman Group, Isom Lowman, share the ups and downs, failed attempts and what they did and didn't do on their respective journeys to creating successful businesses at the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
James Galbraith - Inequality and Economic and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 7: The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution
Curated Video
Market Failure in the Financial Sector: Causes and Effects
In this lecture presentation, the speaker discusses market failure within the financial sector, its causes, and impact on society. The speaker explains the different forms of market failure such as asymmetric information, externalities,...
Two Minute Music Theory
Sonification: The Music of Data
Data can sometimes be dense and difficult to look at. Today we look at a technique known as sonification that scientists and musicians collaborate to create, a technique that can give researchers a different perspective on the dataset.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Shaikh’s path 4 Capitalism as a Turbulent System
Shaikh’s path 4 Capitalism as a Turbulent System
Bill Carmody
Understanding Investing and Protecting Your Wealth
In this video, Bill Carmody interviews Peter Mallouk, the chief investment officer and president of Creative Planning, about important concepts in investing and financial planning. They discuss the difference between brokers and...
Financial Times
Why Wall Street turned Democrat
The FT's US finance editor Robert Armstrong asks if the recent stock market rally – driven partly by polls favouring a Joe Biden victory in the US presidential election – is a more sinister sign of a growing asset bubble.
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...
ACDC Leadership
Why YOU should learn economics!
Why should you learn economics? Put simply, it's becasue it will make you a better decision maker and help you see the "unseen". Economics is the study how we deal with scarcity so we can use our resources as efficiently as possible. So...
The Wall Street Journal
Economic Outlook
The U.S. is growing, China is slowing, the Fed appears to have shifted into neutral. Is that a Goldilocks prescription for continued expansion -- or the calm before the storm?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
William Lazonick: The Market or the State? (3/6)
William Lazonick is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and a speaker at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011
The Economist
Does this line predict America’s next recession?
The yield curve has predicted America's last eight recessions. In March this year it inverted again. So what does it mean for America?