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.
Yanis Varoufakis exposes Europe's energy scam
Yanis Varoufakis argues that Europe's electricity price spikes stem from how the energy market was designed and privatised, plus corporate profiteering.
Inside Job (2010 Full Documentary Movie)
The full 2010 documentary Inside Job, directed by Charles Ferguson, examines the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis.
SOUTH KOREA IS OVER
A Kurzgesagt animation on South Korea's record-low fertility rate and rapidly aging population.
Noam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
A 1997 Noam Chomsky talk at Northeastern University about the gap between free-market rhetoric and practice.
Are NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?
The ADVChina hosts tour a villa neighborhood in southern China that was built only three years earlier and is already empty and deteriorating.
Why Are Birthrates Plummeting Worldwide?
Patrick Boyle examines why birth rates are falling in nearly every country and argues the standard explanations do not hold up.
Peter Schiff Mortgage Bankers Speech Nov/13/06
Peter Schiff's November 2006 speech to the Western Regional Mortgage Bankers Conference, in which he warned an audience of mortgage bankers that the housing bubble would collapse.
Final Warning Limits to Growth
A documentary on the 1972 Club of Rome study Limits to Growth, which questioned the pursuit of endless economic growth.
Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
John Bird and John Fortune satirize the investment banking mindset in a mock interview about the subprime mortgage crisis.
Demographic Collapse — China's Reckoning (Part 1)
PolyMatter's first part of a series on China's demographic collapse, covering the effects of the one-child policy, shrinking workforce and economic consequences.
David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance from The Last Leg
A short clip of comedian David Mitchell on The Last Leg discussing tax avoidance versus tax evasion and why taxes matter.
Robert Kennedy on GDP
A two-minute excerpt of Robert Kennedy's 1968 University of Kansas speech criticizing GDP as a measure of national worth.
How Suburban Development Makes American Cities Poorer [ST02]
Not Just Bikes contrasts traditional and suburban development in North America.
Peter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"
A 2012 debate between Peter Thiel and George Gilder on whether technological progress and economic growth are accelerating or decelerating, moderated by William Davidow.
This Ponzi Scheme Might END Suburban Prosperity
Strong Towns explains the Growth Ponzi Scheme, in which post-war suburban growth takes on infrastructure costs that new development must keep funding.
Margin Call Best Quote by Will Emerson
A two-minute clip from the film Margin Call in which Will Emerson talks about how banks and traders operate and why they stay necessary.
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
President Reagan's 1987 radio address on free and fair trade, in which he argues for free trade over protectionism.
China vs EU on debt conditions
A clip of Yanis Varoufakis answering a question about China versus the EU on debt conditions.
GHOST CITY - Inside the Chinese Housing Bubble
ADVChina tours Chinese ghost cities and discusses the housing bubble, with speculative buyers purchasing empty apartments as investments.
How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is) | William Black
Former bank regulator William Black explains how fraud, including liar's loans, was committed from inside banks and drove the 2008 financial crisis.
Cryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control
Andreas Antonopoulos argues that money has a fourth function beyond store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account, which is as a system of control.
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea | Mark Blyth | Talks at Google
Mark Blyth's Talks at Google presentation based on his book on austerity.
The Big Short (2015) - FrontPoint Partners' investigation in Florida & first trade [HD 1080p]
A clip from the 2015 film The Big Short in which FrontPoint Partners investigate mortgage lending in Florida and place their first trade.
I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version
A 30-minute condensed version of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., which examines the growing US national debt and its consequences.