Economics Explained
On Economics Explained, we take a look at interesting countries, policies, and decisions from the point of view of an economist. The world is an interesting place and we hope to uncover some of this intrigue in our short, informative podcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 275
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Overleveraged Economy of Iceland
Aluminum smelting. Geothermal power. Bitcoin mining. What do all of these things have in common? ... Iceland! 🇮🇸 How has the nation weathered this economic turbulence without turning into a failed st…
00:13:40 |
Sat 06 Mar 2021
The Economics of Hollywood
$42 billion dollars. That is the amount of money grossed by films at the global box office in 2019. Impressive? Definitely. Surprising? Probably not, especially when you consider that global box offi…
00:18:47 |
Sat 06 Mar 2021
The "Perfect" Little Economy of New Zealand
This is new Zealand, a picturesque nation whos economy looks to exclusively rely on throwing their tourists off cliffs in increasingly imaginative ways and being left off of world maps.
But Australia…
00:15:46 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
Why Can't You Buy Anything Anymore? Well It's not all the Virus' Fault.
So the holidays are behind us and if you were left disappointed by what you found under your Christmas tree it might be because you weren’t in the spirit of things, or it might have been because Sant…
00:16:57 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
How China is Fighting Poverty With... Cows?
Whenever we see China in the news it’s normally for some impressive statistic about building stuff, or how it is now home to the most millionaires in the world, or maybe it’s even an article about wh…
00:12:44 |
Sun 03 Jan 2021
The Faltering Economy of Argentina
This is Argentina – a South American nation that has been home to an unprecedented period of sustained growth quintupling in size in the last decade.
This nation has seen remarkable resilience throu…
00:17:28 |
Sun 03 Jan 2021
Why This Billionaire Wants To Give Every Baby $6,750 to Solve The Retirement Crisis?
This is Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager of Pershing square capital.
Bill has been featured on this channel a few times before, most notably because of his trade made in early 2020 wh…
00:18:51 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
The Fourth Industrial Revolution & What Were Those Other Two?
So apparently we are due for a fourth industrial revolution, which might come as a surprise to you because as far as most people can tell we have only had one industrial revolution, and some nations …
00:13:47 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
What is "The Great Reset" & Why are People So Worried About It?
What is The Great Reset actually proposing to do?
Do these ideas have any merit?
Who are the players involved in pushing this agenda?
And is this actually a nefarious scheme or just the victim of …
00:18:09 |
Sun 06 Dec 2020
Why are Billions of Dollars Worth of Ships Being Intentionally Destroyed?
This is the Carnival Imagination, a luxury cruise liner worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which just 10 short months ago was touring passengers in extreme comfort to exotic destinations all over…
00:14:59 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Could Trump Take the Economy Down With Him? & Can Presidents "Make or Break" a Market?
The United States 2020 Presidential election has been called by pretty much every organization that covers the event in any capacity and while the final decision is not made until the special club th…
00:16:03 |
Sun 29 Nov 2020
How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes
This is the Netherlands, a picturesque nation filled with windmills, tulip fields, and uhh coffee shops.
The nation is looked to by many as an extremely forward-thinking place that practices some pr…
00:17:49 |
Thu 26 Nov 2020
How to Invest In Chinese Stock Markets - And Why You Absolutely Should Not!
China has been home to the most extreme economic growth in human history. In four short decades, the nation has gone from a struggling backwater filled with poverty to this, a nation of glistening sk…
00:15:54 |
Sun 22 Nov 2020
Can Texas Escape Oil Dependance?
This is Texas, the second-largest state in the USA by landmass, population, and GDP.
But perhaps being runner up is not so bad in all of these categories. Texas has for many decades been a huge driv…
00:20:22 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Why the Stock Market is at an All Time High... Again?!
In the fallout of one of the most volatile American elections ever financial markets did something very strange, they rose, and rose to new record levels, again.
This would be unusual during even a n…
00:16:50 |
Sun 15 Nov 2020
Can America Win the War On Drugs... With Economics?
The war on drugs was declared in 1971 by president Richard Nixon in a press conference that went on to outline a plan to fight the trade of controlled substances across the world. Drugs were declared…
00:17:07 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Does Tesla Deserve to be The World's Most Valuable Automaker?
Tesla is today the most valuable automaker in the world by market capitalization beating out industry giants like General Motors, Ford, Volkswagen group, and even Toyota.
It has achieved this impres…
00:17:27 |
Sun 08 Nov 2020
The "Evolving" Economy of Kazakhstan
This is Kazakhstan, and yes I know what you are all thinking, and yes in the interest of full disclosure we are definitely cashing in on the hype surrounding the second Borat, but in fairness so is t…
00:18:20 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
The Economic Policies of the 2020 Election - Trump vs Biden
The US presidential election will be held in 2 days from when this video is published.
The process of electing who will go on to be the most powerful man in the world always makes for big news but pe…
00:22:11 |
Sun 01 Nov 2020
The Pokémon Card Price Boom
In this episode of Economics Explained, we will explore the following questions:
What has been behind the boom in the value of Pokemon cards?
Could this be a genuine investment vehicle?
Or is th…
00:13:46 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
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