Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class
William Lazonick, professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell, explains how rationalization, marketization, and globalization characterize the U.S. economy during the past 50 years, and how the behavior of companies and fate of...
TLDR News
How r/WallStreetBets Made GameStop's Stock Price Soar: Reddit Takes on Short Sellers - TLDR News
Over the last week the subreddit WallStreetBets has been making waves in the stock market, pushing up the values of companies like GameStop and Blackberry. These amateur traders seem to have outwitted and confused the professionals -...
Financial Times
Charts that Count: putting first-quarter returns into perspective
Returns from the S&P 500 in the first quarter of 2019 were the highest since 1998. FT data visualisation journalist Brooke Fox explains why it's not time to break out the champagne.
The Wall Street Journal
The Secondary Streetwear Market
What happens after the "drop"? Hyped hoodies, sneakers, skateboards and watches have created a new generation of entrepreneurs tapping into the secondary market. Learn more about how this will continue to reshape commerce.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Banning Buybacks [Bill Lazonick]
Companies like Apple and Google make billions for rich investors by buying back their own stock—at the expense of workers, the public, and the planet.Economist Bill Lazonick says it’s time to ban the stock buyback scam.William Lazonick...
Brian McLogan
Cram For Your Exponential and Logarithmic Function Test
In this video we will study everything you need to know for exponential and logarithmic functions. We will begin by graphing and then move into simplifying expressions and solving.
Financial Times
Coronavirus sell-off why markets have further to fall | Charts that Count
The FT's US finance editor Rob Armstrong says investors in the S&P 500 have made above average returns over the past decade. But at this point, that is both reassuring and frightening.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Q&A: The Market or the State? (6/6)
Roman Frydman, Philippe Aghion, William Janeway, William Lazonick, Ha-Joon Chang, and Peter Jungen at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Cars Hommes - How Expectations Interact to Create Bubbles
How do economists make their models work. By assuming that investors have rational expectations and that every market participant is alike. However, things quickly get messy once economists start to acknowledge that people are different,...
The Wall Street Journal
Eric Schmidt and the 20,000 Foot View Beyond Google
Google's former chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt, discusses how big tech can use the pandemic to reshape their fortunes and make an impact to transform healthcare and education.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Venture Capital in the 21st Century with Bill Janeway [TRAILER]
In this eight-part series, Bill Janeway investigates the relationship between #venturecapital and technological #innovation, and the interdependent roles of entrepreneurial firms, the mission-driven State and financial speculation in...
Economics Explained
Here's Why Supply And Demand Is Overrated!: Sticky Prices
If you were to ask any random person on the street what it is that they knew about economics there is a pretty good chance that the first thing that they would blurt out would be the words “Supply & Demand” The number of people out there...
Financial Times
Why sustainable ETFs are on the rise
ESG-focused exchange traded funds are grabbing market share, says the FT's ETF news editor Emma Boyde. But why are investors moving to sustainable ETFs and what are the pitfalls?
Economics Explained
How To Invest In Chinese Stock Markets (And Why You Absolutely Should Not!): Stock Exchanges Explained
China has been home to the most extreme economic growth in human history. In four short decades, the nation has gone from a struggling backwater filled with poverty to this, a nation of glistening skyscrapers and more Gucci stores than...
Economics Explained
How To Invest In Chinese Stock Markets (And Why You Absolutely Should Not!): Chinese Stock Exchanges
China has been home to the most extreme economic growth in human history. In four short decades, the nation has gone from a struggling backwater filled with poverty to this, a nation of glistening skyscrapers and more Gucci stores than...
The Wall Street Journal
How Bullish Is Tim Draper?
Tim Draper’s venture firms have a reputation for investing early in emerging technologies – from Tesla and SpaceX to Robinhood and Bitcoin. As the markets cool, how is he preparing for what some economists predict could be a sustained...
Economics Explained
Why is the Stock Market Still Rising?
It looks like this external shock will snowball on top of some underlying faults in the economy to cause an economic crisis that eclipses the 2000’s tech bible and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. Most people of note from...
Economics Explained
Here Is Why The Stock Market Is At An All-Time High: Why Do People Care
The S&P 500, an index that measures the stock performance of the 500 largest companies in the USA, closed out this week at it’s highest level ever. The USA releases it’s worse GDP figures in history? The stock market rose the next day,...
Economics Explained
Here's Why The Stock Market Is At An All-Time High: The Role Of An Investor
The S&P 500, an index that measures the stock performance of the 500 largest companies in the USA, closed out this week at it’s highest level ever. The USA releases it’s worse GDP figures in history? The stock market rose the next day,...
Economics Explained
Here's Why Supply and Demand is Overrated! | Economics Explained
If you were to ask any random person on the street what it is that they knew about economics there is a pretty good chance that the first thing that they would blurt out would be the words “Supply & Demand” The number of people out there...
Economics Explained
Could China's Currency Be The New World Reserve? part 2: Advantages of Reserve Currency & China's Plan
Could China's Currency Be The New World Reserve? part 2/3: In this video, the speaker discusses the advantages that come with having the world's reserve currency, which the US has held for 130 years. These advantages include reduced...
PBS
What is the DOW?
Do your eyes glaze over when you ever hear about the DOW? Are you still confused about what the DOW is?
Economics Explained
The Economy of Cyberpunk 2077: A Game of Cautionary Tales (And Bugs) | Economics Explained
This is night city, the futuristic metropolis which is home to most of the action taking place in cyberpunk 2077, which has quickly become the most popular PC benchmarking software in 2020. There are a few reasons I wanted to explore the...