Crash Course
The 2008 Financial Crisis: Crash Course Economics
Today on Crash Course Economics, Adriene and Jacob talk about the 2008 financial crisis and the US Goverment's response to the troubles. So, all this starts with home mortgages, and the use of mortgages as an investment instrument. For...
Curated Video
China's Automobile Industry: Potential and Growth Amidst Slowing Sales
This video discusses the current state of the automobile industry in China, highlighting the potential for global car brands despite a recent slowdown in sales. It mentions the Beijing Auto Show, where multinational brands showcased...
Financial Times
Has China's Belt and Road Initiative been a success?
The initiative is one of the biggest development programmes in history. Ten years on, the government is bailing out hundreds of billions of dollars worth of loans to protect its development banks from default. So should the BRI be...
The Business Professor
Small Business Investment Company (SBIC)
What is a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC)? An SBIC is a privately owned company that's licensed and regulated by the SBA. SBICs invest in small businesses in the form of debt and equity. The SBA doesn't invest directly into...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
George Soros - The Living History of the Last 30 years
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 1: The Living History of the Last 30 years: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy Economic theory has modeled itself on theoretical physics. It has sought to...
Curated Video
Understanding Quantitative Easing
The video discusses quantitative easing, an unconventional form of monetary policy that was implemented by major developed economies like the US and UK following the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It explains how central banks were...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Globalized Finance and the Crisis of 2008
The world economy is just starting to recover from the most disastrous episode in the history of financial globalisation. Understanding what happened is essential. Anton Brender and Florence Pisani, both economists teaching at...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Moritz Schularick: Credit Booms Gone Bust
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell the history of financial crisis as a tale of excessive public debt. But what more commonly drives financial instability, says Moritz Schularick, is excessive private debt. Financial crises are...
Financial Times
Charts That Count: sovereign debt is protein, not dessert
Brendan Greeley says economists have started talking more openly about sovereign debt. For example, if a country's nominal growth rate is higher than its cost of debt, it might make sense to borrow.
NPR
Lending Circles Boost Credit
When someone borrows money and pays it back on time, they build credit, and good credit allows them to borrow more. People without a good credit history are often blocked from important economic transactions like renting an apartment or...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Money View: Global Crisis, Global Reform
The Money View: Global Crisis, Global Reform
SWPictures
Helping Social Entrepreneurs - Microfinance & Poverty
Can the poor borrow their way out of poverty? In this episode, Alvin Hall aims to find out by lending just $25 to two small business women in Tanzania, via Kiva, a global micro-finance website.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Steve Keen: Credit Created Out of Thin Air 3/7
The neoclassical vision of saving and lending -- the standard model being taught in universities -- causes economists to be blindsided by the dynamics of debt in the economy, according to Steve Keen. In part 3 of this INET interview,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Debt We Don't Talk About
How do you know a major financial crisis is coming? Look for a spike in privately held debt, by households and corporations. That's the argument of Richard Vague, author of The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It....
Curated Video
Understanding Leverage Ratio in Banking
This is a video discussing the leverage ratio and its importance in measuring a bank's capital reserves relative to the loans it has taken on. The video discusses how the regulator sets a minimum leverage ratio for banks and how this...
Financial Times
What led to the huge rise in property prices?
FT writers and editors Lindsay Fortado, Judith Evans, Daniel Thomas and Mark Vandevelde discuss how urbanisation, central bank policy and lack of housing supply have fuelled the boom
Curated Video
The Role of the Financial Sector in Developing Economies: Challenges and Interventions
This is a lecture presentation discussing the role of the financial sector in developing economies. The speaker explores the characteristics of developing economies, such as low living standards, low levels of labour productivity, poor...
The Wall Street Journal
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler on the SEC's Ambitious Agenda
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler discusses the SEC’s new rules on climate-related disclosures and other key aspects of his ambitious agenda.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Brief History of Doom
Are financial crises avoidable? Richard Vague says yes—by reigning in the excessive private lending that’s driven major crashes over the past 200 years. INET President Rob Johnson talks to Richard Vague about his new book, A Brief...
Curated Video
Understanding Alternative Monetary Policy Tools
This is a video about alternative monetary policy tools in the UK. The speaker provides an overview of the tools used by the central bank to evaluate economic impacts when bank rates fall to a very low level. The video discusses...
Curated Video
Understanding the Funding for Lending Scheme: An Unconventional Monetary Policy Tool
The video is a lecture presentation that discusses the Funding for Lending scheme, an unconventional monetary policy tool introduced by the Bank of England in 2008 to stimulate the economy when interest rates had reached the lower bound...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Vince Cable: Getting the Financial System Off Life Support
Vince Cable: Getting the Financial System Off Life Support
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Q&A: Macroeconomic Management After a Crisis (7/7)
The video shows the discussion following the panel Macroeconomic Management After a Financial Crisis at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011.