Economics Explained
Episodes
Do Sanctions Work?
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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The Rather Pathetic Economy of Russia
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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How The Economy Of Japan Could Predict The Next Decade
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Was Last Weeks Stock Market Crash an Overdue Reality Check?
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Turkey Is Not Fixing It's Hyperinflation Problem
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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How is "Transitory" Inflation Going?
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Are Economists Too Pessimistic?
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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China Has A Debt Problem Three Times Larger Than Evergrande
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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How Has Brexit Been Going?
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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This Year’s Nobel Prize Is Going To Change Everything...
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Chinese Blackouts Are Revealing Something Much More Important About The Global Economy
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Inflation Is Driving Secondhand Markets Out Of Control. Here’s Why.
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The "Dirty" Economy Of Australia
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Why You Should Be Worried About China's Debt Crisis
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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8 Months of Stimulus Just Unraveled
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Troubled Economy of El Salvador
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Economy Of Spain
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Labor Shortage Crisis
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Housing Affordability Crisis We Don't Want To Solve
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Silicon Valley and Shenzhen Have Exactly The Opposite Problem
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Hyperinflation is Already Here – We Just Haven't Realised It Yet.
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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How The Suez Crisis Might Give Rise To A New Industry
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Why The NFT Market Is Not As Crazy As You Think
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Are Modern Supply Chains So Needlessly Complex?
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do companies come up with their intricate supply chains? Why are some of these supply chains so convoluted where others are extremely straightfor...
The Turbulent Economics of the Airline Industry
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, we'll explore the economic factors that are likely to define the airline industry for the foreseeable future! ✈️ What are the ...
The Overleveraged Economy of Iceland
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aluminum smelting. Geothermal power. Bitcoin mining. What do all of these things have in common? ... Iceland! 🇮🇸 How has the nation weathered th...
The Economics of Hollywood
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
$42 billion dollars. That is the amount of money grossed by films at the global box office in 2019. Impressive? Definitely. Surprising? Probably not, ...
The "Perfect" Little Economy of New Zealand
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is new Zealand, a picturesque nation whos economy looks to exclusively rely on throwing their tourists off cliffs in increasingly imaginative way...
Why Can't You Buy Anything Anymore? Well It's not all the Virus' Fault.
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So the holidays are behind us and if you were left disappointed by what you found under your Christmas tree it might be because you weren’t in the s...
How China is Fighting Poverty With... Cows?
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever we see China in the news it’s normally for some impressive statistic about building stuff, or how it is now home to the most millionaires i...
The Faltering Economy of Argentina
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is Argentina – a South American nation that has been home to an unprecedented period of sustained growth quintupling in size in the last decade...
Why This Billionaire Wants To Give Every Baby $6,750 to Solve The Retirement Crisis?
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution & What Were Those Other Two?
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So apparently we are due for a fourth industrial revolution, which might come as a surprise to you because as far as most people can tell we have only...
What is "The Great Reset" & Why are People So Worried About It?
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is The Great Reset actually proposing to do? Do these ideas have any merit? Who are the players involved in pushing this agenda? And is this a...
Why are Billions of Dollars Worth of Ships Being Intentionally Destroyed?
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Carnival Imagination, a luxury cruise liner worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which just 10 short months ago was touring passengers i...
Could Trump Take the Economy Down With Him? & Can Presidents "Make or Break" a Market?
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United States 2020 Presidential election has been called by pretty much every organization that covers the event in any capacity and while the fin...
How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Netherlands, a picturesque nation filled with windmills, tulip fields, and uhh coffee shops. The nation is looked to by many as an extre...
How to Invest In Chinese Stock Markets - And Why You Absolutely Should Not!
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 fille...
Can Texas Escape Oil Dependance?
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is Texas, the second-largest state in the USA by landmass, population, and GDP. But perhaps being runner up is not so bad in all of these categ...
Why the Stock Market is at an All Time High... Again?!
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the fallout of one of the most volatile American elections ever financial markets did something very strange, they rose, and rose to new record lev...
Can America Win the War On Drugs... With Economics?
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The war on drugs was declared in 1971 by president Richard Nixon in a press conference that went on to outline a plan to fight the trade of controlled...
Does Tesla Deserve to be The World's Most Valuable Automaker?
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla is today the most valuable automaker in the world by market capitalization beating out industry giants like General Motors, Ford, Volkswagen gro...
The "Evolving" Economy of Kazakhstan
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is Kazakhstan, and yes I know what you are all thinking, and yes in the interest of full disclosure we are definitely cashing in on the hype surr...
The Economic Policies of the 2020 Election - Trump vs Biden
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The US presidential election will be held in 2 days from when this video is published. The process of electing who will go on to be the most powerful ...
The Pokémon Card Price Boom
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Economics Explained, we will explore the following questions: What has been behind the boom in the value of Pokemon cards? Coul...
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In and amongst all of the happenings in the world this year these awards have kind of flown under the radar which is unfortunate because they all reco...
Here's Why Supply and Demand Is Overrated!
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The Growing Generational Wealth Gap
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The long-suffering generation of millennials are now set to be significantly poorer than both baby boomers and Gen X'ers. Having entered the workfor...
The Shifting Economics of California
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is California, the Golden State and one of the largest economies in the world in its own right. If California was counted as a sovereign nation...
Are the "Extreme" Economic Systems Totally Pointless?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Communism vs Laissez-Faire Capitalism Both of these opposing theories are very extreme and, for what it's worth, don’t exist in any modern economies...
Why Unprofitable Companies Are Winning in 2020
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The bottom line is the most important part of any functioning business. Profit after costs, expenses, and taxes. The money that the founders and inv...
The Economics of Prisons
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation is something we more or less take for granted these days. The idea that 5 dollars today is not going to be able to buy 5 dollars worth of st...
Is Hyperinflation Coming?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation is something we more or less take for granted these days. The idea that 5 dollars today is not going to be able to buy 5 dollars worth of st...
The Economy of Taiwan
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is Taiwan, or officially, the Republic of China, a country in east asia, which if you can’t tell by how delicate I am being with these titles h...
Why GDP Is Overrated & Nobody Should Care About It!
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
GDP is one of the most universally recognized terms in economics. Even outside people with an interest in the subject most adults would be able to tel...
What is the FIRE Movement? Could it be Hurting Our Economy?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Fire movement is a growing trend amongst young workers which is growing in popularity thanks to its very enticing goal which is spelled out in the...
Why is Working Harder Making Us Poorer?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Workers today are amongst the hardest worked individuals in history, while simultaneously being the most efficient. Sure, they have traded in grueli...
Why You Should Be Very Afraid Of A K-shaped Recovery
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The economic impacts of 2020 have been felt far and wide and we have covered these problems in-depth in a handful of videos on this channel. But the l...
Why Economists Never Agree on Anything?
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Economics is considered a social science, and although some other scientists from more “rigorous” fields don’t always welcome it into their litt...
The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry You've Never Heard Of
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The market for alternative investments has been a really exciting field in recent years, with everything from Bitcoins, to beanie babies being touted ...
Vietnam: The Economy of the Next Decade?
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world today. In 2019 its growth was only beaten out by a selection of far smaller and far more ...
Why Does China Manipulate its own Currency?
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
China is not playing fair in the game of global trade, they are cheating other countries, companies, and consumers out of business by Manipulating the...
The Student Debt Crisis
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Student loans are financial tools that have been put in place to give promising individuals the ability to get an education and increase their potenti...
Why Becoming A Cashless Society Is A Terrible Idea
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Physical cash is one of the easiest ways to instantly and reliably conduct commerce. It has been well-documented that the ease of transactions wit...
Do We Need to Work 40 Hours a Week?
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of things that we take for granted in our day to day lives, and one of the big ones is how we spend a good portion of our waking hours...
The Biggest Wealth Transfer in History is Upon Us - Here is What it Means
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The wealthiest generation in history is starting to retire, and die. In doing so they will be responsible for the greatest wealth transfer in history...
How the U.S. Economy Just Lost 33% of its Value
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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% contr...
The Economy of Ancient Egypt
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Egypt was amongst the first major human civilizations in existence. Outside of being genuinely fascinating the economy of ancient Egypt is ...
Why 40,000 People Die for Every 1% Increase in Unemployment - The Big Short
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The big short was a fantastic movie, for finance nerds and regular viewers alike. One of the lines that stood out the most, amongst many memorable lin...
Black Market Economics - What Drives the Underground Economy?
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Weird and Wonderful Economy of Vatican City
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is Vatican city. The smallest widely recognized sovereign state in the world. This tiny nation exists entirely within these walls, but its infl...
Why Are Cold Countries Richer Than Hot Countries?
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are all manner of factors that make poor countries poor and rich countries rich. Many of these factors we have explored in depth when we have lo...
Is Wealth Inequality Actually a Problem?
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What Would a Thanos Snap do to the Economy?
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The justification was that this was necessary to restore balance to a universe that was overpopulated and putting too much of a drain on resources. ...
Could The Whole World Use Just One Currency?
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our world is home to over 190 countries using 180 currencies to trade, invest, and collect taxes. The global economy is complex at the best of times a...
Can Saving Too Much Money Cause a Recession?
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
People are told from the time they get their first job to save money. Save for a car, have an emergency fund, send your kids to college, a house depo...
The History of Global Banking: A Broken System?
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 2008 Global Financial crisis was kicked off by major structural issues in the global banking system and exacerbated by record levels of household ...
Why Australia is Actually an American Company
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is a major world economy, with highly developed industries and close to 25 million of the wealthiest citizens in the world. But Australia...
Why Amazon is Begging For Regulations: The Twisted Economics of Amazon
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In two short decades, Amazon has grown from a modest online bookstore to an international conglomerate. A conglomerate that seems hellbent on moving i...
Adam Smith: The Grandfather Of Economics
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Smith was a Scottish philosopher and author who is probably best known for writing a book titled “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of … ...