Economics Explained
How The U.S. Economy Just Lost 33% Of Its Value: The End Of Growth
Last Thursday on the 30th of July 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its 2nd quarter Gross Domestic Product report. The report noted a 32.9% contraction in annual GDP growth in the months of April, May, and June. For...
Economics Explained
How The U.S. Economy Just Lost 33% Of Its Value: Center Of The Devastation
Last Thursday on the 30th of July 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its 2nd quarter Gross Domestic Product report. The report noted a 32.9% contraction in annual GDP growth in the months of April, May, and June. For...
Economics Explained
How The U.S. Economy Just Lost 33% Of Its Value: Alternatives
Last Thursday on the 30th of July 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its 2nd quarter Gross Domestic Product report. The report noted a 32.9% contraction in annual GDP growth in the months of April, May, and June. For...
Economics Explained
How The U.S. Economy Just Lost 33 Percent Of Its Value: GDP Economic Plunge
Last Thursday on the 30th of July 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its 2nd quarter Gross Domestic Product report. The report noted a 32.9% contraction in annual GDP growth in the months of April, May, and June. For...
Curated Video
Understanding the 2008 Financial Crisis: Causes, Impacts, and Policy Responses
This video provides an overview of the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as the response by UK institutions and the government. The speaker explains how subprime mortgages in the US and their repurchase in opaque...
The Guardian
US Elections 2012: Do Mitt Romney's sums add up?
US Elections 2012: Do Mitt Romney's sums add up? The US economy has flatlined since Barack Obama was elected in 2008. Here, economists Kevin Gallagher (Boston University) and Richard B Freeman (Harvard) discuss Mitt Romney's five-point...
ACDC Leadership
Liquidity Traps- Macroeconomics
Hey internet, this is Jacob Clifford. Thank you for watching my videos. So, what's so weird about the US economy today? Well, interest rates are extremely low, banks have extra money that they are not loaning out, and the massive...
Curated Video
Understanding Quantitative Easing
The video discusses quantitative easing, an unconventional form of monetary policy that was implemented by major developed economies like the US and UK following the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It explains how central banks were...
Curated Video
Fair finance or funny money? Scepticism greets Zimbabwe’s new bond notes
Struggling with a shortage of cash Zimbabwe has introduced a new currency, a “bond note”, redeemable against US dollars, which has been the country’s official currency since 2009. #Zimbabwe central bank to introduce bond notes Monday...
TLDR News
Did Drug Money Save the Economy in 2008? - TLDR News
In 2008/9 when the global recession hit, banks were impacted hard and many even collapsed. However, some speculate that it could have been even worse if it weren't for drug money keeping liquidity high. So in this video, we explain that...
Crash Course
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company: Crash Course World History 229
In which John Green teaches you about the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, doing business as the VOC, also known as the Dutch East India Company. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch managed to dominate world trade, and they did...
TED Talks
William Black: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is)
William Black is a former bank regulator who’s seen firsthand how banking systems can be used to commit fraud — and how “liar's loans” and other tricky tactics led to the 2008 US banking crisis that threatened the international economy....
Curated Video
Microfinance: lending small, thinking big
This week, Real Economy is looking at the world of microfinance in a European market that tends to be dominated by traditional banks. We take a look at the world of microcredit in Romania and see how small loans and a little financial...
Economics Explained
Why Top Investors Are Betting Against The USA
Michael Burry, the investor made famous when he shorted the US housing market before the crash of 2008, has recently bet against the US Bond market. What relationship between the economy and the stock market made him think this would...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Debate about the relationship between environmental limits and economic growth has been taking place for several decades. These arguments have re-emerged with greater intensity following advances in the understanding of the economics of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Paul Davidson - The Trouble With the Ergodic Axiom 2/4
In the second part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution:...
Curated Video
Jeff Sachs - America in Crisis: What Role for Government? 1/5
In Part 1 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about Sachs's book The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity. Sachs doesn't view 2008 as...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur 1/4
In part 1 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Women, Finance & Society
Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, there has been much debate about reforming the financial sector and improving the accountability of its major actors. In fact, many of the principals involved in creating the mess...
Economics Explained
The Economics of Disasters
The Wuhan corona virus, the active impeachment of a sitting US president, an earthquake and volcanic eruption in the Philippines, floods in Indonesia, the death of kobe Bryant, magnitude 7.7 earthquakes in the caribbean and even my...
The Great War
The British Naval Blockade of Germany I THE GREAT WAR Special
The big and decisive naval battle that the Royal Navy had hoped for did not happen during World War 1. But another naval strategy slowly but surely ground the German economy down. » HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR CHANNEL? You can support us by...
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One Minute Economics
Predicting Economic Crashes, Austrian Economists, Economics Major & More [One Minute Answers]
Six questions about the field of economics have been asked on this week's edition of One Minute Answers from One Minute Economics: 1) One about why so many economists have failed to predict the 2007-2008 economic crash -...
Food Farmer Earth
The Future of Small Family Farms
Farmer Rick Steffen, and culinary instructor Katherine Deumling share their views about the future of small family farms. According to the most current USDA census data (2007), and the recently published survey data from the Economic...
Biography
Fidel Castro - Military Leader & President | Mini Bio | BIO
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was born near Birán, Cuba, in 1926. Beginning in 1958 Castro and his forces began a campaign of guerrilla warfare which led to the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. As the country's new leader,...