Financial Times
Charts That Count: sovereign debt is protein, not dessert
Brendan Greeley says economists have started talking more openly about sovereign debt. For example, if a country's nominal growth rate is higher than its cost of debt, it might make sense to borrow.
Curated Video
Long Run Aggregate Supply Curve and Factors Affecting it
In this video, the speaker discusses the long run aggregate supply curve and its differences from the short run curve. He also explains the concept of full employment and how it is related to the capacity of the economy, and how changes...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
L. Randall Wray: Time for a New Approach for Unemployment?
More than five years after the fall of Lehman Brothers we are still dealing with the problem of high unemployment, the worst kind of "waste" in economic theory. Is there a better approach? A number of scholars, notably Professor Randy...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Edward Kane - Political Economy of Controlling Systemic Risk
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 8: Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Stephen Kinsella -- Irish Crisis Demands New Economic Thinking
Most "state of the art" macro models trivialize financial flows and largely neglect the interaction between finance and industry. That is why they failed at predicting and illuminating the collapse of the Irish economy. Stephen Kinsella...
History Hit
The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan: Columbus was not looking for America
What was the whole process of European discovery? What does Britain have to do with the silk roads? The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan, Part 2
The Economist
Covid-19: how bad will it be for the economy?
The coronavirus pandemic has killed thousands of people, crashed stockmarkets around the world, driven 10m Americans to claim unemployment and caused businesses to haemorrhage money. With economies are in turmoil, how bad will the damage...
Curated Video
Evaluating the Impact of a Higher Minimum Wage
The video discusses the topic of labor markets, specifically the impact of a higher minimum wage on the economy. The video analyzes the factors that affect the significance of this trade-off, such as the size of cash reserves that...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee
13 million people looking for living wage work is not a “full employment” economy. Why should the federal government adopt a jobs guarantee? Just ask the 13 million Americans looking for living wage work. That’s what Pavlina Tcherneva,...
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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Mazzucato and Wray: Making Finance Work for Innovation
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
TLDR News
Office Work Automation: You Aren't Too Creative To Be Replaced
Over recent years we have seen more and more jobs being replaced by robotics. But what will happen when AI comes for white collar and office work? Are you really too creative to be replaced?
Financial Times
Why India is reconsidering its attitude towards China
An unexpected deadly clash in the Himalayas over a small patch of land is forcing New Delhi to examine its relationship with China. The FT's global China editor James Kynge and south Asia bureau chief Amy Kazmin discuss the geopolitical...
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
TLDR News
Europe’s Top 10 Richest and Poorest Places - Data Dive.
There is a lot of difference between rich and poor areas all over the world, and Europe is no exception. We run down the richest and poorest areas in Northern Europe and discuss the issues which arise from income inequality in Europe.
Hip Hughes History
The Election of 1840 Explained
A video summary of the Presidential election of 1840 between William Henry Harrison and Martin Van Buren.
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.
Curated Video
Industry & Supply: The Race to Get Civil War Soldiers Frontline Resources
Supplying almost three million soldiers with the food, clothes and resources they needed to fight the Civil War was no easy task. So which side proved most successful?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Michael Hudson: Debt: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring 2/4
Michael Hudson, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City at the panel entitled "The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt II: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring" at the...
Mediacorp
Trouble on the Mekong: Negative Effect of Dams on the Mekong River
This video highlights the growing demand for power in the developing world, particularly in Asia, and the reliance on hydropower as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. However, it also explores the negative consequences of hydropower...
TLDR News
The UK and US Special Relationship Explained
The UK and US have one of the longest standing relationships between nations. They work together on trade, military operations and intelligence sharing. But how close are the two countries, and how much do they rely on each other?
TLDR News
Does the EU Really Need the UK? - Brexit Explained.
When scrolling through comments you often see people say "they need us more than we need them". So we have tried to respond to that once and for all. We look at if the EU relies on the UK for trade, how the EU budget will cope without...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Cybersecurity Framework Workshop Rebecca Blank
Commerce Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank calls for industry to work with NIST in partnership to develop a voluntary framework that will promote best practices at critical infrastructure facilities and businesses to keep the U.S. safe.
The Wall Street Journal
Who's Behind That Gig?
"Gig economy" companies allow plenty of flexibility but comparatively little security for their labor force. One company is trying to give companies peace of mind about who's working on their platform while also giving workers more...