Crash Course
Supply and Demand: Crash Course Economics
In which Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you about one of the fundamental economic ideas, supply and demand. What is supply and demand? Well, you'll have to watch the video to really understand it, but it's kind of important for...
Crash Course
Price Controls, Subsidies, and the Risks of Good Intentions: Crash Course Economics
So, during times of inflation or deflation, why doesn't the government just set prices? It sounds reasonable, but price ceilings or floors just don't work. Adriene and Jacob explain why. Subsidies, however, are a little different, and...
Crash Course
Markets, Efficiency, and Price Signals: Crash Course Economics
Adriene and Jacob teach you all about markets. So, in free market(ish) economies like the United States and most of the world, markets are a big deal. Markets work to produce the stuff that consumers want, and that society needs. Today...
TED Talks
The joy of shopping -- and how to recapture it online | Nimisha Jain
Shopping is about more than just what you buy: it's a treasure hunt to discover something new, a negotiation to get a great deal, a time to catch up with friends and family. But for many, online shopping has turned the experience into an...
Curated Video
The Evolution of Wembley Stadium and Park Stadium: From Old to New
This video explores the history and construction of two iconic stadiums - Wembley Stadium in London and Park Stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. It highlights the significance of these stadiums in hosting major sporting events and the...
Curated Video
In Praise of Predictive Project Management [plus MASSIVE NEWS !!!]
These days, it can feel like traditional, predictive Project Management is going out of fashion. Especially when some Agile PM commentators refer to it as Waterfall in a derogatory way. But, the truth is, Predictive Project Management...
Curated Video
Cyber Security for Absolute Beginners - 2022 Edition - Part 02 - How We Are Tracked Online
This video demonstrates online examples of how we are tracked and how our preferences are monitored and recorded online.
Curated Video
The Rise and Fall of the Dollar Menu
Weird History Food is going to your favorite fast food drive-thru for the history of the Dollar Menu. The big three fast food chains, Mcdonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King have all introduced their version of the value menu. But when did...
Curated Video
Electricity: The Costs
Where does the electricity we use come from? Are we damaging our environment just to keep the lights on? Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. Electricity is essential to our society and the way we live. Electricity...
Curated Video
Oil Shocks
The factors affecting global oil prices, and what can happen if prices shift dramatically. Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. Oil price is determined by the current supply to world markets, the amount in reserves, and...
Wonderscape
The Beginning of the Great Depression
This video explains the events leading up to the stock market crash of 1929 and the start of the Great Depression. It discusses how easy access to credit and stock investments led to a booming economy in the 1920s, followed by panic and...
Curated Video
Fast Food Chains That Failed Outside the U.S.
Weird History Food is going worldwide. From greasy fried chicken and pizzas covered in cheese, to super sweet and sugary treats, Americans love their fast food. There's a McDonald's on the corner streets of even the smallest towns in the...
Wonderscape
Saving and Investing Money: Building Your Financial Future
Discover the importance of saving money for emergencies, big life dreams, and retirement. Learn about different savings accounts and basic investment options, such as stocks and government bonds, to grow your money over time. Earning,...
Curated Video
Financial Analysis - Build a ChatGPT Pairs Trading Bot - Pairs Trading Test
In this video, we will conduct a pairs trading test to validate the performance and effectiveness of our strategy with ChatGPT into specific techniques and statistical tests to evaluate the performance of our pairs trading strategy with...
Curated Video
Modern JavaScript from the Beginning - Second Edition - Array.reduce Method
In this video, we will discuss the Array.reduce method, which allows us to reduce an array to a single value by applying a function to each element of the array. This clip is from the chapter "Loops, Iteration, and High-Order Array...
Curated Video
Pros and Cons of Traveling Abroad for Surgery
What exactly is medical tourism? How safe is it to travel to another country for a medical procedure? And what about mixing a little vacation with some dental work? As of 2020, approximately 1 in 10 people in the US under the age of 65...
Curated Video
Macbeth 2.3 Historical Reference: "Here's a farmer"
This video offers an in-depth analysis of the character portrayals and themes in Act 2 of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," particularly focusing on the porter's scene. The video explains how Shakespeare weaves contemporary political events and...
Curated Video
Simplifying Fractions
It's Joe's first day at the Fraction Factory. Luckily, Susana is happy to show him the ropes. She teaches him how to simplify fractions so that they can put the right price tags on each package. The video goes through 3 examples and...
Curated Video
Pricing and Fear of Price
This is a course about sales. And most salespeople have no control over the prices of the products and services they need to sell. So, I am not going to talk about the economics, strategy, or internal politics of setting a price. I want...
Curated Video
Marketing Mix: Price and Pricing Strategy
In our video on Marketing Mix, one of the 4 Ps was Price. So, let's look at pricing strategy.
Financial Times
Soaring profits put oil and gas 'supermajors' in the spotlight
FT Moral Money - Over the past year, high energy prices have brought the global fossil fuel producers an extraordinary flow of wealth. The FT's Simon Mundy looks at the question this raises over their obligation to society and to the...
Financial Times
Could protectionism make food insecurity even worse?
FT Food Revolution - The conflict in Ukraine has exacerbated the world’s food supply crisis. Hoping to counter soaring food prices, some governments have implemented protectionist policies, restricting the export of staples such as rice...
Financial Times
The cost of food fraud scandals
FT Food Revolution - Food fraud costs the world up to $40bn annually and can have serious health consequences for consumers. As the FT’s Madeleine Speed explains, food prices have been driven up by the war in Ukraine and global warming,...
Financial Times
Food and fuel compete for farmland
FT Food Revolution - The UN’s World Food Programme has described 2022 as 'a year of unprecedented hunger', with millions of people in dozens of countries facing famine. Yet significant amounts of farmland are being used to produce not...