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.
There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)
An animated short on limits to growth, covering oil formation, peak oil, energy, economic growth and resource depletion.
Nick Hanauer on inequality
Nick Hanauer's short TED University talk on economic inequality, which was famously not posted on TED's main site at first.
The True Cost of the Royal Family Explained
CGP Grey breaks down what the British Royal Family costs the UK versus what it brings in, including income from royal-owned land.
Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump
A roughly three-hour Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Marxism: Zizek/Peterson: Official Video
A roughly 2.5-hour Toronto debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek on happiness under Marxism versus capitalism.
Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
Billionaire Nick Hanauer warns fellow wealthy people in a TED talk that growing inequality could lead to social upheaval like pre-revolutionary France.
Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt
Policy advisor Simon Anholt presents the Good Country Index, a measure of how much each nation contributes to the world beyond its own borders.
Greenspan: "There is nothing to prevent the government from creating as much money as it wants."
A two-minute clip from a March 2005 House Budget Committee hearing in which Paul Ryan asks Alan Greenspan about personal retirement accounts and social security solvency.
Rutger Bregman tells Davos to talk about tax: 'This is not rocket science'
A short Guardian clip of historian Rutger Bregman at Davos telling attendees that the real issue is tax avoidance, not philanthropy schemes.
Margin Call (3/9) Movie CLIP - The Music Stops (2011) HD
A clip from the 2011 film Margin Call in which an analyst explains to the firm's executive the dire state of their investment firm at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.
Inequality: Why are the rich getting richer?
A three-minute Positive Money UK explainer arguing that the commercial banking system, where banks create most money as debt, redistributes income from the bottom 90 percent to the top 10 percent through interest.
Jim Cramer: "Bear Stearns is Fine!" Tues, 3/11/08
A short clip of CNBC's Jim Cramer insisting Bear Stearns is fine in March 2008, days before the firm was sold to JP Morgan for $2 a share.
Gauge Theory and Inflation: Enlarging the Wu-Yang Dictionary
A talk by Eric Weinstein on gauge theory and its possible application to economics and inflation.
It's A Wonderful Life Bank Run
The bank run scene from It's a Wonderful Life, in which George Bailey explains to depositors why the bank cannot pay everyone back at once.
Rick Suddeth: USSR: Moscow 1989 Grocery Store
A short amateur clip of a Moscow grocery store from 1989, filmed by a visiting production worker.
The Big Short (2015) - FrontPoint Partners confronts Morgan Stanley Risk Assessors and S&P
A five-minute clip from The Big Short (2015) in which FrontPoint Partners confront Morgan Stanley risk assessors and an S&P ratings representative about inflated mortgage bond ratings.
The Big Short (2015) - Jared Vennett's Pitch to Front Point Partners (Jenga Blocks Scene) [HD 1080p]
A scene from The Big Short in which Jared Vennett pitches credit default swaps on mortgage bonds to a hedge fund team, using a Jenga tower to illustrate collateralized debt obligations.
Milton Friedman talks about property taxes
A four-minute clip of Milton Friedman, from a 1978 address, discussing property taxes and land value taxation.