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Economics Explained
MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040: The Limits To Growth
A report in the 1970's looks at how society will progress along certain factors. Which path is the most viable moving forward and which one is the most distrastrous? Either way, what does the year 2040 have to do with...
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...
Economics Explained
Are Economists Too Pessimistic?: It's Their Job
Economists have predicted 15 of the past 5 recessions, so should we take them seriously?
Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes...
Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes...
Economics Explained
Will This be the Next Great Depression?
In 1929, years of wild debt-fuelled speculation over company stocks came to a halt with the worst economic disaster in history. In 2001, years of wild debt-fuelled speculation over technology companies that were apparently going to...
Economics Explained
Are Economists Too Pessimistic?: Paying Attention to Scary News
Economists have predicted 15 of the past 5 recessions, so should we take them seriously?
Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes...
Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes...
Economics Explained
Are Economists Too Pessimistic?: Introduction
Economists have predicted 15 of the past 5 recessions, so should we take them seriously?
Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes...
Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes...
Economics Explained
MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040: Introduction
A report in the 1970's looks at how society will progress along certain factors. Which path is the most viable moving forward and which one is the most distrastrous? Either way, what does the year 2040 have to do with...
Wonderscape
History Kids: The Great Depression
This video provides an overview of the Great Depression in the United States. It explains the economic and social conditions leading up to the Depression, including the Roaring Twenties and the stock market crash of 1929. The video also...
PBS
Pbs Nova: Mind Over Money
This film [01:00:00] explores the financial crash of 2008 and asks the question, "Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible?"
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Economic and Financial Crises in American History
What kicked off the major economic and financial crisis in the United States? Richard Sylla delivers a comprehensive presentation in an effort to educate views on the cause and effect of these breaking points throughout history. [1:29:20]
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Where Does All the Bailout and Stimulus Money Come From?
Including discussion questions, Paul Solman identifies where the funding of these bailouts and stimulus money will come from in both document and video. March 18, 2009.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Paulson Bailout: Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan
A video explaining how the Paulson's Plan was designed to buy toxic assets from banks that failed at a discount to help save the economy. Video explores that positives and negatives from the bailout plan. [11:05]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: The Great Recession
A n overview of the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s.