Organizational Communication Channel
Grouphate and Statistics about Small Groups
Grouphate describes those feelings of dread that some people have about working in groups, teams, and meetings. Plus, some statistics on groups and teams here will help you see how common working alongside others really is.
Teaching Without Frills
Economics for Kids: Saving and Spending
In this video, you'll learn about the economics concepts of spending, saving, scarcity, and making choices based on costs and benefits.
Economics Explained
This One Country Doesn't Have an Inflation Problem
In this video we help you to be more knowledgeable about inflation by looking at countries, most notably Switzerland, that have bucked the global trend in 2022 by reporting tame inflation numbers. We look into what Switzerland did right...
Vlogbrothers
Why is There an Egg Shortage (And More)
We used to do this all the time and it's such a fun format...I usually can't answer them all, but this time I feel like I got lucky.
Vlogbrothers
Why is College So Expensive?
College is a good deal, but it could be a much better deal. A combination of factors have driven the costs of higher education in America to increase extremely quickly, pricing some people out of an education and building over a trillion...
All In One Social Media
3 things NOT to do with you social media marketing
3 things NOT to do with you social media marketing
Curated Video
What a strong US dollar means for the world economy
Our editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes takes us behind this week's cover to discuss the sharp rise of the dollar of late, and why its surge could pose problems for the world economy
Curated Video
Introduction to Cloud Computing - CapEx Versus OpEx
This video explains CapEx versus OpEx. This clip is from the chapter "Introduction" of the series "Introduction to Cloud Computing".This section introduces you to the course.
Curated Video
Philip Hammond's plan to help JAMs to stimulate Britain's economy
Philip Hammond, Britain's chancellor, makes his first autumn statement today on the government's tax and spending priorities. Our word of the day considers the target of his plans to stimulate the economy: the citizens who are "just...
All In One Social Media
All The Things You CAN Do When NOT Doing Social Media
All The Things You CAN Do When NOT Doing Social Media // Imagine all the time you could save to do all those tasks you been putting off, if only you could outsource your social media time. Social media marketing can be a huge time suck....
Healthcare Triage
Innovation in a Changing US Health System
The US healthcare system has a lot of issues, but one thing it's got going for it is innovation. More clinical trials originate in the United States, and more Nobel Physiology and Medicine Laureates are from here than from any other...
Curated Video
Understanding Trade Deficits and Ways to Resolve Them
In this video, the speaker discusses the concept of trade deficits and the implications of large recurring trade deficits on an economy. The speaker explores different potential solutions to resolving trade deficits, including...
Healthcare Triage
The Pitfalls of Cost Sharing for Healthcare
Cost-sharing is the practice of making individuals responsible for part of their health insurance costs beyond the monthly premiums they pay for health insurance - think things like deductibles and copayments. The practice is meant to...
Healthcare Triage
Does More Social Spending Reduce Healthcare Costs?
We spend a lot of money on social programs. Studies indicate that a lot of those programs work to improve health outcomes for people who receive the benefits. So, does that social spending reduce healthcare costs? Not really. But cutting...
Healthcare Triage
Results Are In! Congressional Budget Office Scores the American Health Care Act
And it's not a hit. Last week we talked about the new American Health Care Act, but ended on the note that it needed a score from the CBO. Well, the CBO has spoken, and it's not great news for the AHCA.
Healthcare Triage
Why Don't We Invest More in Public Health?
Many, many studies conclude that investing in public health is more effective than continually increasing spending on expensive treatments. So why doesn't the US spend more on public health?
TLDR News
Coronavirus Budget: The UK’s 2020 Budget Summarised - TLDR News
Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the UK government's new budget for 2020. As you'd expect the virus featured pretty heavily, but they also discussed taxation, investment, and borrowing. In this video,...
Healthcare Triage
Rising Pet Care Costs Might Tell Us Something about Human Health Care Costs
In almost every year since the 1960s, health care spending has grown at least as fast as the overall economy, and often much faster. Health economists have long debated why.
Healthcare Triage
Donald Trump and Healthcare Cost Sharing
One of the few things that both Donald trump and Hilary Clinton seemed to agree on is that high out-of-pocket spending, specifically as it relates to the Affordable Care Act, is a problem. One of Clinton's most popular health care...
Healthcare Triage
Medicare for All and Administrative Costs
Political talk is getting more and more serious around Medicare for All in the United States. The argument, as usual comes down to costs. One of the advantages that proponents always bring up are the very low administrative costs of...
Healthcare Triage
Americans Spend a Lot on Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Back Pain
One of my fist big efforts on my blog was a ten point series on health care spending in the US. It also led to John doing this video - which is the fourth most popular vlogbrothers video EVER, - which pretty much led to Healthcare...
ACDC Leadership
The Economics of the Coronavirus
I hope that you and your family are safe and healthy. Like many of you, I'm quarantined in my house so I made this quick video talking about some of the economic concepts associated with recent events. I talk about scarcity, shortages,...
Healthcare Triage
Where is the Waste in Health Spending?
Up to 25% of health spending in the US is wasteful. Where is that money being lost? What can we do about it?
Healthcare Triage
Why Does the U.S. Spend So Much on Healthcare? High, High Prices.
American healthcare spending is still WAY higher than pretty much all other industrialized countries. But not that long ago, things were different. The US didn't spend nearly as much in this realm. What changed? Demographics? More...