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Professor Dave Explains
Weathering Environments Part 2: Aeolian Processes
We learned about fluvial processes, or those dealing with water, so now let's learn about aeolian processes, or those dealing with wind. How does wind weather rocks? Quite similarly to water, but with less force. Let's check out some...
Curated Video
Factors That Affect Income
“Factors That Affect Income” discusses various economic factors that affect profit and income, such as inflation, deflation, unemployment, capital goods, human capital, and productivity.
Curated Video
Understanding Deflation and Its Consequences
This video provides an explanation of what deflation is and the consequences that come with it, which includes a reduction in real output, consumption, and investment. The speaker uses Japan as an example of an economy that has suffered...
Economics Explained
Japan - The Fading Economy: The Great Stagnation
Japan became the first of the modern Asian countries to experience massive sustained economic growth. Japan had a lot going for it after the end of the war, it was able to rebuild with the help of the allies and go through its own...
Economics Explained
The Economy of EVE Online (Part 2): The Robot Problem
EVE Online has a botting problem. Robots can be programmed to play this game for hours at a time with no rest needed.
This has meant that normal players looking to play the game have been pushed to the side by these armies...
This has meant that normal players looking to play the game have been pushed to the side by these armies...
Curated Video
Understanding Percentages and the Importance of Percentage Points
In this video, the presenter discusses some issues around percentages and introduces the concept of percentage points. He explains the difference between percentages and real numbers, and the significance of the difference between the...
Curated Video
Understanding Inflation: Key Terms and Their Impact on Economic Behavior
This video introduces the concept of inflation and its impact on economic behavior. He defines key terms such as inflation, deflation, price level, and consumer price index, and explains how they are related to each other. He also...
Economics Explained
Is Hyperinflation Coming?: Is Inflation Good or Bad
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 stuff in the future, and the fact that you used to be able to buy a family home for...
Economics Explained
How To Fix An Economic Crisis: Interest Rates
Let's say you find yourself as the Head of State of some country during an impending economic crash. Your country's stock market is imploding, businesses are closing, unemployment is rising, and everyone is looking to you to provide...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Alex Kinmont: The Future of Japan and Abenomics
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.
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Professor Dave Explains
Inflation and Deflation
You know how your parents always tell you about how cheap things were when they were kids? Well it's true, prices for literally everything have risen dramatically over the decades. Why? Because of something called inflation. What exactly...
TED-Ed
What Gives a Dollar Bill Its Value?
What makes a one hundred-dollar bill valuable? Here is an excellent, straight-forward animated video to help your learners grasp the concept of inflation and the purpose and policies of the Federal Reserve System.
Khan Academy
Banking 4: Multiplier Effect and the Money Supply
In the context of a discussion about real wealth versus the representation of wealth (money), Sal explains the multiplier effect and how 1000 pieces of gold can become 2710 pieces of gold. Viewers will appreciate the annotations and...
Federal Reserve Bank
Episode 4: Inflation
Have you ever gone to the store and noticed the price of an item you always buy has suddenly increased? Scholars investigate the reason prices inflate in the market. An informative lesson looks into the Consumer Price Index to determine...
Crash Course
Macroeconomics
Get out of the textbook and into real economic issues with an innovative video. Crash Course Economics takes learners through a tour of macroeconomics and applies the three major factors of macroeconomics—gross domestic product,...
Curated OER
Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization 2
Sal justifies that the determining factor of inflation and deflation is not the money supply as much as much as it is demand and the raised capacity utilization.
Khan Academy
Debt Loops Rationale and Effects
Now that scholars understand more about currency imbalance and artificially suppressed currency, Sal discusses the motivations of the different actors. He briefly touches on the difficulty of unwinding a cycle like this once it has...
Khan Academy
CPI Index, Inflation, Finance and Capital Markets
Get an introductory course on inflation and the Consumer Price Index as Sal breaks down American disposable income based on government analysis. He focuses on housing percentages, explaining inconsistencies in the rental equivalence...
Khan Academy
Chinese Central Bank Buying Treasuries
In the first several minutes of this clip, a review of the hypothetical China-U.S. trade scenario Sal mapped out in previous videos. Then, he begins to outline further how the Yuan can resist appreciation because of interference by the...
Khan Academy
China Keeps Peg but Diversifies Holdings
By examining data from the U.S. treasury, Sal shows scholars the large discrepancy between US exports to China and US imports from China in 2009. He also examines foreign-owned assets in the United States, pointing out China's position...
Khan Academy
China Buys US bonds, Money, Banking and Central Banks, Finance and Capital Markets
Go further into depth with the China-United States trade scenario, this time investigating what the Chinese government does with the dollars they collect. Sal reminds scholars why the Chinese Central Bank prints Yuan to purchase dollars...
Khan Academy
China Pegs to Dollar to Keep Trade Imbalance
Continuing from the previous video, Sal reviews the China-US trade relationships and the floating currency scenario that should leave the dollar weaker and the Yuan stronger. He explains why the People's Bank of China doesn't want this...
Curated OER
Inflation Explained - Part 3/4
Inflation also includes the concept of deflation, is deflation good? Part three in this four-part series takes a comparative look at Japan's economic deflation during the 1990s and today's US economic situation. Purchase power,...
Khan Academy
Review of China US Currency Situation
This short clip is essentially just a review of what Sal has discussed in previous videos about the China-US trade situation. He goes over all the details, discussing the trade imbalance and how the Chinese government maintains the...