MarketWatch
How receiving a child tax credit or stimulus check affects your taxes
Did you receive a child-tax credit or a third-round stimulus check in 2021? You may be wondering whether you’ll have to send some of the money back to the government at tax time. Here's what you need to know.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Growth Slowdown is Coming
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital. Peter Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
TLDR News
Did Trump Strengthen the American Economy? Trump's First Term Analysed - TLDR News
With the 2020 Presidential Election getting closer by the day, we wanted to take a detailed look at the promises Trump made during his campaign and whether he stuck to them during his first term in the White House. In this video, we look...
Healthcare Triage
More Money, More Life: Studies Indicate Wealthy People Live Longer
Unless you were living under a rock this week, you heard there was a huge new study on life expectancy in America. It's worth our time. This is Healthcare Triage News.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
James Galbraith: Governing With A Higher Purpose To Spur Innovation
The United States’ deep political polarization is blinding the nation from seeing what it takes to create an effective innovation economy. Simply put, to many figures on the political right the government is simply a source of corruption...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How Not to Criticize Standard Economic Models
Josh Mason from John Jay College CUNY doesn’t think teaching contending economic theories is effective, and sees the objective of introductory economics courses as teaching students basic tools to understand economic terminology,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Keynes' Primer: His Three Key Insights
In part 1 of INET's interview with Lance Taylor, he discusses his book "Maynard's Revenge," which demonstrates that Keynes' insights have never been truer than today
ACDC Leadership
The Economics of Inequality Part 2- Tax the Rich!
Are the richest 1% greedy? Should we tax the rich and force them to pay their fair share? What's the first step toward fighting income inequality? These are the questions that I attempt to answer in the video. NOTE- I got some complaints...
Curated Video
Understanding Income Elasticity and Cross Elasticity of Demand
The video is an educational tutorial on the concepts of income elasticity of demand (YD) and cross elasticity of demand (XED). The presenter explains the calculations for each and how to classify goods based on their YD and XED values....
Healthcare Triage
One Republican Backup Plan for the AHCA: Cassidy-Collins
If the new AHCA doesn't pass (which is definitely in the realm of possibility), Republicans in Congress will need to come up with another plan to fulfill their promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. Senators Susan Collins of Maine, and...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Richard Koo - A "Balance Sheet Recession"
Nomura Research Institute's Richard Koo says that what the world is experiencing right now, a "balance sheet recession," is different from traditional recessions. However, Japan recently experienced a similar type of recession, and Koo...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
One Nation, Under Finance
Access to finance was supposed to reduce inequality, and make us all better off. Why hasn't that happened? Birmingham City Business School Senior Lecturer Hanna Szymborska calls for economists and bankers to look more deeply, and to root...
Financial Times
Crunched: is the inequality gap really widening?
FT data journalists Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch take a look at the numbers behind the wealth gap amid growing concern that inequality is worsening
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Lance Taylor: Maynard's Revenge
In INET's exclusive interview with Lance Taylor, he discusses the concepts behind his recent book "Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics"
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Shaikh’s path 4 Capitalism as a Turbulent System
Shaikh’s path 4 Capitalism as a Turbulent System
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Racist Violence and Economic Activity
Riots, lynching and other forms of violence dramatically disproportionate impact on the lives and prospects of African inventors. That’s just one indicator, says Professor Lisa Cook, of the profound impact of racial violence on the...
Curated Video
Circular Flow of Income for an Open Economy: Injections and Leakages
This video lecture explores the circular flow of income for an open economy, taking into account external injections and leakages. The lecturer provides a recap of the basics of economic activity and circular flow for a closed economy,...
Curated Video
Understanding Consumption and the Consumption Function
This video is a lecture about the components of aggregate demand, with a specific focus on one of the most important components: consumption. The relationship between disposable income and consumption is explored, along with the concept...
PBS
What The Heck Is an IRA?
What if there were a way to dodge taxes on a chunk of your paycheck? Or how about an investment opportunity that will never pay a penny of taxes on the growth no matter how big it gets? Sound too good to be true? This is the amazing tax...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Natural Cycle of Recoveries
In part 4 of INET's interview with Lance Taylor, he says that the recovery from the crisis will take time, and should involve increased labor buying power and more private investment from profits
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Steve Keen: How He Saw "It" Coming 2/7
In part 2 of the interview he talks about how in his search for a realistic framework of capitalism he ended up with the work of Hyman Minsky. Unlike standard theory, Keen says, Minsky emphasizes the role of money and debt in the...
Curated Video
Measuring and Assessing Income Inequality Using Lorenz Curve and Gini Index
In this video, the presenter explains how to measure and assess income inequality using a Lorenz curve and the Gini Index. He breaks down the complicated definitions of the Lorenz curve and simplifies it as a graph indicating income...
Curated Video
Understanding Economic Growth: Benefits, Limitations, and Impact on Quality of Life
The video is a lecture on economic growth. The presenter discusses the financial benefits of economic growth, such as increased consumption of goods and services. However, he also highlights the limitations and challenges attached to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Martin Schuerz on Wealth Distribution
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe. Before the crisis, the European Central Bank commissioned work on the liabilities side of European debt. Research from the Austrian...