Economics Explained
The Economic Megathreats That the World Has No Answers To | Economics Explained with Dr. Roubini
Economist Nouriel Roubini discusses potential Economic Megathreats including the end of globalization, easy money leading to stagflation, the growing debt crisis, AI's threat to worker and consumer-based economies, and climate change....
Economics Explained
Is Inflation Finally Coming To an End? | Economics Explained
Inflation has been perhaps the single biggest issue facing the global economy over the past year and has proven far more persistent than most people originally assumed. But with central banks around the world all raising interest rates,...
Economics Explained
Do Bank Failures Always Cause Recessions? | Economics Explained
Jean-Edouard Colliard is a financial regulation professor at HEC Paris. He previously worked as Economist at the European Central Bank where he gave policy advice to the ECB, including at the highest level. The video describes the recent...
Economics Explained
What Would The American Economy Look Like If COVID Never Happened?
We're exploring South Korea's impressive economic transformation, from an agrarian backwater to a global powerhouse. Home to internationally recognized companies and cutting-edge industries, South Korea is a fascinating case study for...
Economics Explained
What Can We Learn from the Richest Country in the World?
Discover the secrets behind the success of the richest country in the world with this fascinating video on Luxembourg's economy. With the highest per capita income and most millionaires, Luxembourg has set the benchmark for economic...
Economics Explained
The Brutal Economics of Migrant Labour
Qatar has one of the highest rates of migrant workers of any country in the world with over 90% of residents being non-citizens. So why does Qatar need so many migrant works and why are so many migrant workers willing to go to Qatar?...
Economics Explained
Is There a Better Economic System than Capitalism?
Over time it is almost taken as given that science and technology will evolve and improve over time. But does the same hold true for the field of economics? Will future generations achieve superior levels of wealth due to advancements in...
Economics Explained
Is South Korea's Economic Bubble About to Burst? | Economics Explained
We're exploring South Korea's impressive economic transformation, from an agrarian backwater to a global powerhouse. Home to internationally recognized companies and cutting-edge industries, South Korea is a fascinating case study for...
Economics Explained
How To Get Rich When The World Is Against You | Economics Explained
Despite geographical challenges, hostile neighbors, and limited resources, Israel has become one of the world's wealthiest and most advanced economies. This video explores how Israel overcame economic failure, what drives its growth, if...
Economics Explained
Capitalism Doesn't Need Consumers | Economics Explained
After the launch of Chat-GPT and Dall-E, AI started to raise concerns for jobs and society. As machines and sophisticated technologies surpass human abilities, a growing number of complex jobs are being outsourced to machines who can do...
Hip Hughes History
Ronald Reagan Explained: US History Review
A short overview of the 1980's with an emphasis on the policies of Ronald Reagan. Broad and intended for high school students studying for their end of the year United States history exams, specifically the New York state regents...
Hip Hughes History
Economics on the United States History Test in Ten Minutes
Geared for the US Regents, this lecture explains the major differences between free market capitalism and capitalism under Keynansian Economics. Topics include supply and demand, regulatory action versus unregulated laissez fairre. Bush,...
Hip Hughes History
The Federal Reserve Act Explained
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the modern day Federal Reserve system. In this lecture we explain the basics of what the law did and how the Fed influences the economy. Perfect for APGOV students or anyone seeking an overview of US...
Vlogbrothers
Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks
In which John discusses the increasingly widespread use by large corporations of the phrases "DFTBA" and "Don't forget to be awesome," and discusses why even though we COULD stop those uses by trademarking nerdfighter slogans, we aren't...
Vlogbrothers
What's Up with Start Ups
I'm just getting a little sick of the system that values aggregators of content more than creators of content, and presumes some kind of magical future where owning users free time results in lots of money.
Vlogbrothers
What is Burnout?
If you take anything away from it, it should only be that burnout isn't one thing, and that you can learn more about what you're experiencing by asking yourself if it's a fuel problem or an opportunity problem. Fuels can be addressed by...
Vlogbrothers
Understanding America's Debt Problem
In which John discusses the U.S. public debt, our dangerously high debt to GDP ratio, the S&P's downgrade of America's credit rating, and why our debt may not be as unmanageable as it seems. There's also some general discussion of...
Vlogbrothers
The Largest Theft of All Time
I thought this video was going to be a fun top ten list, then I realized that most of the theft in America is the rich robbing the poor. Literally! Not even in a roudabout way...literally not paying them for more than twenty billion...
Vlogbrothers
SYSTEMS!!!!
In which John discusses the interwoven systems that shape our destiny even though we rarely pause to think about them.
Vlogbrothers
Is the Gender Pay Gap Real?
In which John examines the complex and tangled question of the gender wage gap, and looks at some of the reasons why women who work full time are paid less than men who work full time. Sources: The pay gap increases as workers age, and...
Vlogbrothers
EBOLA! (...meningitis)
In which John is diagnosed with ebola by the Internet but turns out to be suffering from viral meningitis. How should we imagine novel diseases and how should we combat them? And why do we only focus on diseases that we fear will affect...
Vlogbrothers
Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health
A special bonus video in which John Green and Microsoft founder Bill Gates talk about how Ethiopia has reduced its infant mortality dramatically in the past twenty years.
Vlogbrothers
Is Poverty Necessary? Looking back at the Millennium Development Goals
In which John examines the progress of the UN's Millennium Development Goals over the last 15 years and looks ahead to the Global Goals. Can we live in a world where extreme poverty and undernourishment are rare? Are we closer to gender...
Vlogbrothers
Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture
A special bonus video in which John Green and Microsoft founder Bill Gates talk about how Green Agriculture in Ethiopia.