PickVidsBest Macroeconomics & financial crises Videos
The 90 Macroeconomics & financial crises videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 16 introductory, 5 intermediate, 68 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Not Just Bikes, Extractor.
How the Fed's "Money Printer" Really Works
Ben Felix explains how central bank money creation and quantitative easing actually work, and what they do and do not imply for asset prices and currency.
Jancovici : Will technology save us from Climate Change ? MIT Media Lab - 23/02/2021
Jean-Marc Jancovici gives an MIT Media Lab talk on whether technology can save us from climate change.
RSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die
An RSA Animate drawing of Barbara Ehrenreich's talk on the darker side of positive thinking.
Charlie Rose: Sir James Goldsmith Interview - 15.11.94
Charlie Rose interviews Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 about the coming GATT free-trade agreement.
Black Wednesday (BBC 1997)
A 1997 BBC documentary on Black Wednesday in 1992, when sterling was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
8/28/2006 Peter Schiff On Kudlow & Co: Predicts The US Economic Collapse
A 2006 television appearance in which Peter Schiff warns on Kudlow & Co about the housing bubble and an approaching US economic collapse.
Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
Yanis Varoufakis talks at a festival in Zagreb about his book The Global Minotaur.
Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty
PolyMatter explains China's housing bubble and why around 50 million homes sit empty.
Understanding the rise of China | Martin Jacques
Economist Martin Jacques offers three building blocks for understanding China's rise, including seeing China as a civilization-state rather than a nation-state.
Princes of the Yen | The Hidden Power of Central Banks
Michael Oswald's documentary, based on Richard Werner's book, argues that Japan's 1990s crash was engineered by the central bank and powerful interests.
Yanis Varoufakis with Professor Noam Chomsky at NYPL, April 16, 2016 | DiEM25
Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky talk on stage at the New York Public Library in 2016.
Robert F. Kennedy challenges Gross Domestic Product
A short video of Robert F.
Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market - Full Video
The first episode of Milton Friedman's 1980 Free To Choose series, on how markets and voluntary exchange organize economic activity and the price system.
Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
A long Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Austrian economist Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard.
How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
Scott Galloway's TED talk uses data to argue that young Americans are financially worse off than earlier generations, calling it a great intergenerational theft.
Mark Blyth - A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why
Political economist Mark Blyth gives a lecture tracing two versions of capitalist 'software': the postwar Great Compression era and the neoliberal era from 1980 to 2008.
The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film
A Financial Times film examining how Brexit hurt the UK economy, with FT writers and business people.
Death to Pennies
CGP Grey's short animated argument for abolishing the US penny, covering its cost and history.
What Eating the Rich Did For Japan
Asianometry traces how the Japanese zaibatsu families grew into vast industrial combines and how postwar reforms abruptly broke up their wealth and control.
Four Horsemen - Feature Documentary - Official Version
An independent feature documentary in which 23 economists, advisers and financiers discuss how the financial system works and what a more just economic model might look like.
Money creation in the modern economy - Quarterly Bulletin
A short Bank of England video accompanying its 2014 Quarterly Bulletin article on money creation.
1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
The opening lecture of MIT's Blockchain and Money course taught by Gary Gensler, covering the course plan, the history of failed digital currencies, cryptography and what a blockchain is.
How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes | Economics Explained
An Economics Explained video arguing that the Netherlands shows taxes alone can't reduce wealth inequality.
Quantitative Easing Explained
An animated xtranormal explainer on quantitative easing, what the Federal Reserve was doing and how things got there.