Curated Video
Trade Unions in the Labor Market: Roles and Influence
This video provides an overview of trade unions and their impact on the labor market. The presenter explains the objectives of trade unions, which include protecting workers' rights, improving their pay and working conditions, and...
Barcroft Media
They Called Me The Purple People Eater: BORN DIFFERENT
A BRAVE woman has learnt to accept her severe facial birthmark despite years of bullying that ruined her childhood. 39-year-old Kiana Smith, who resides in Cumana, Trinidad, was born with a significant port-wine stain birthmark on the...
PBS
What is the DOW?
Do your eyes glaze over when you ever hear about the DOW? Are you still confused about what the DOW is?
Economics Explained
Was Last Weeks Stock Market Crash an Overdue Reality Check? | Economics Explained
The stock market recently fell by 10% in a single week, but was this crash long overdue?
Economics Explained
Black Market Economics - What Drives the Underground Economy?: Control The Price
We will explore what is the Black Market, why is it so large and influential, how to combat it, and how to make Black Market profits? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics...
Curated Video
Understanding Bond Variables and their Relationships
This video is a lecture presentation that explains the relationship that exists between bond yields, bond prices, and market interest rates. The lecture discusses the two main bond variables that one needs to be comfortable dealing with:...
The Wall Street Journal
The State Of Venture Capital
State-sponsored investment and massive cash infusions from Softbank are upending the equilibrium of Sand Hill Road. Leading VCs talk about building investment firms for the future. Andrew Braccia and Kirsten Green speak with WSJ's Rolfe...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Greenspan Knew, But Didn’t Act
In conversation with Institute President Rob Johnson, Sebastian Mallaby — Paul Volcker Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of a new book on Alan Greenspan’s tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve — parses...
Economics Explained
Negative Oil Prices - Explained: Oil in 2020
Earlier this week we've started seeing articles noting that oil prices have now gone into the negatives (meaning investors are paying to give away their oil). What is going on here? How does this make sense? As always with these weird...
Curated Video
The Product Lifecycle: Understanding and Extending Commercial Success
This video discusses the concept of the product lifecycle and its various stages, which every new product is expected to go through. The speaker explains that businesses must intervene if they want to extend the period in which the...
Curated Video
Understanding Debt and Equity Capital for Financial Markets
This video provides a detailed explanation of the differences between debt capital and equity capital as ways of raising finance in the financial markets. The host discusses the various economic agents who operate in these markets and...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy
Neoliberalism, warns Professor Wendy Brown, has created a form of reasoning in which human beings are reduced to their economic value and activity, and in which all fields of human activity are treated as markets and institutions,...
The Wall Street Journal
A Conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky provides an update on the Ukraine war, including the impact of companies that retain ties to the Russian economy, damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure and the human toll of the war.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Can Markets Corrupt Social Values?
Are there moral or civic goods that are corrupted or degraded if they’re sold in the market? Harvard political philosopher Micahel Sandel and Judge Richard Posner discuss in this full-length interview from “What Money Can’t Buy.”
Economics Explained
The Economics of China’s Enormous Belt & Road Initiative: Belt & Road
China's Belt and Road initiative is set to be the most influential economic development project in recent history. It’ll be an investment measured in trillions, connecting dozens of nations with roads, rail lines, shipping routes, and...
The Business Professor
Marketing - How Do We Segment Business Markets
This Video Explains Marketing - How Do We Segment Business Markets
Curated Video
International Capital Markets and their Role in Developing and Emerging Economies
This video lecture presents an overview of international capital markets and their role in providing finance to developing and emerging economies for their development projects. The speaker discusses the sources of funding available to...
The Wall Street Journal
The FTC’s Plan for Enforcing Antitrust Laws
With the FTC promising to increase enforcement of antitrust laws more aggressively, Chair Lina Khan discusses how the commission plans to balance a tougher antitrust environment without stifling U.S. innovation.
Economics Explained
High Frequency Trading (Hfts): Reactionary Algorithm
The New York Stock Exchange is the world's largest and most liquid securities market. It's where many of world's largest companies list their shares to be traded amongst millions of investors worldwide; ranging from small individual...
Curated Video
The Role of Financial Markets in Facilitating the Economy
This video is a lecture on the role of financial markets and the functions they play in facilitating an economy. The speaker discusses various financial assets such as shares, bonds, securities, and currencies that are traded in...
NASA
How remote sensing can help address food security around the world
When floods, droughts, and other natural disasters hit isolated and poor regions of the world, it can have devastating impacts on the local price of food. NASA Goddard research scientist Molly Brown is using satellite data to investigate...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Silver Lining of a New Economic Beginning - Joseph Stiglitz
A Nobel Laureate is heartened that the global crisis has demolished the free market fundamentalist paradigm and opened up the possibilities for a 21st-century economics.
The Wall Street Journal
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Regulating Digital Assets
Digital alternatives to traditional asset classes like cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens are reshaping business. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce discusses what's next for crypto regulation, including the potential for...
Economics Explained
How Is "Transitory" Inflation Going?: Unemployment And Inflation
Inflation is no longer transitory, but is it here to stay? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes of economists. The team explores a wide...