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Economics

  1. Congressional Hearing: The Implications of a Central Bank Digital Currency and Private Sector Alternative
  2. USA Bank Regulation: Financing The Roaring Twenties
  3. Foundational economic ideas that are known to be false 2
  4. Foundational economic ideas that are known to be false
  5. The economic and political development of Finland
  6. The economic and political development of Iceland
  7. The economic and political development of Norway
  8. The economic and political development of Sweden
  9. The economic and political development of Denmark
  10. Is Scandinavian socialism really just regulated capitalism?
  11. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 8
  12. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 7
  13. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 6
  14. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 5
  15. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 4
  16. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 3
  17. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 2
  18. Saving capitalism by making it more inclusive, part 1
  19. Marxist economic theory criticisms of capitalism
  20. Modern Monetary Theory explained by Stephanie Kelton
  21. Money and finance: A talk by Dr. Steve Hail
  22. Can democratic capitalism (workers coops) benefit investors?
  23. Nomi Prins on banking fraud and bank bailouts
  24. Richard Wolff: Democratic capitalism through workers cooperatives?
  25. What is money and where does it get its value?
  26. How the federal reserve system uses repos
  27. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 15 (and THE END)
  28. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 14
  29. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 13
  30. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 12
  31. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 11
  32. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 10
  33. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 9
  34. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 8
  35. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 7
  36. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 6
  37. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 5
  38. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 4
  39. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 3
  40. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 2
  41. Angrynomics – The summary: Part 1
  42. Was libertarianism really created by corporate special interests?
  43. How do US treasury auctions work and why does it matter?
  44. Are there state and provincial sovereign wealth funds?
  45. What are examples of national sovereign wealth funds?
  46. What are Sovereign wealth funds and why do they work?
  47. Is there a pattern to how poor nations create economic value?
  48. How did Japan rebuild economic vitality after WW2?
  49. How did Germany rebuild economic vitality after WW2?
  50. How did Ireland create high economic value and growth?
  51. How did Hong Kong create high economic value and growth?
  52. How did South Korea create high economic value and growth?
  53. How did Taiwan create high economic value and growth?
  54. How did Singapore create high economic value and growth?
  55. How do poor nations create high economic value?
  56. Why what the World Trade Organization does matters
  57. Why is the rational expectations theory of inflation worth paying attention to?
  58. Does the structural theory of inflation show up in reality?
  59. What are the Demand-Pull and Cost-Push Inflation Theories?
  60. Does the market power theory of inflation explain reality?
  61. Why is the quantity theory of money inflation known to be wrong?
  62. How we can better understand what causes inflation?
  63. Why our economic vocabulary is in the way of progress: 5
  64. Why our economic vocabulary is in the way of progress: 4
  65. Why our economic vocabulary is in the way of progress: 3
  66. Why our economic vocabulary is in the way of progress: 2
  67. Why our economic vocabulary is in the way of progress: 1
  68. What is the World Bank?
  69. What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
  70. Ecological economics: What is it? Where did it come from?
  71. When can inflation be good for the economy?
  72. Is government intervention in the free market inevitable?
  73. Economic theory of value: How did we get so far off course?
  74. The free market
  75. Feminist economics: What is it? Where did it come from?
  76. New Institutionalism: What is it? Where did it come from?
  77. Institutionalism: What is it? Where did it come from?
  78. Post Keynesian economics: What is it? Where did it come from?
  79. We need good new economics, and what it could be, Part 3
  80. We need good new economics, and what it could be, Part 2
  81. We need good new economics, and what it could be, Part 1
  82. Austrian Economics: What is it? Where did it come from?
  83. 2008 Bank bailout: Why didn’t we let them go bankrupt?
  84. Marxism: What is it? Where did it come from?
  85. Mint the coin: Why the constant debt ceiling crises?
  86. Mint the coin: How are not ALL US federal deficits debt?
  87. Mint the coin: How can the US Treasury just create money?
  88. The Green New Deal: Yes we need it, but why?
  89. Neoclassical Economics: What is it? Where did it come from?
  90. Modern Monetary Theory: An introduction from Warren Mosler
  91. Contending Perspectives in Economics, Chapters 1 and 2
  92. How are financial markets supposed to work? Per Adam Smith
  93. How the Federal Reserve creates money
  94. A nations wealth is productive output, not money
  95. To Understand Modern Money Learn Reserve Accounting
  96. Cowboy Economist: How the government finances its deficits
  97. Cowboy Economist: How the private sector finances its deficits
  98. Cowboy Economist: How can you recognize a socialist?
  99. 2021 Nobel Prizes in Economics: Data over Intuition
  100. 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics: Observation over Intuition
  101. Economic Rent (Adam Smith) vs Fictitious Capital (Karl Marx): Same thing?
  102. Warren Mosler interviewed about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
  103. Medicare for All: How can we afford to pay for it?
  104. Yes, Government Deficit Spending Creates Private Sector Surpluses
  105. US National Debt Never Needs To Be Paid Down, Seriously
  106. What does the phrase free market mean?
  107. Who else in the MMT universe is worth paying attention to? Part 5
  108. Who else in the MMT universe is worth paying attention to? Part 4
  109. Who else in the MMT universe is worth paying attention to? Part 3
  110. Who else in the MMT universe is worth paying attention to? Part 2
  111. Who else in the MMT universe is worth paying attention to? Part 1
  112. Who is this Warren Mosler fella? And why did he inflict MMT on us?
  113. Who figured out Modern Monetary Theory? When? How?
  114. Is the US government broke? How can that be?
  115. How does the US government pay for stuff?
  116. The existence of money: It’s not due to barter being inefficient
  117. What is money? Part 2
  118. What IS money? Part 1
  119. The Green New Deal: How Will We Pay For It?
  120. Job training alone does not reduce unemployment
  121. Causes of hyperinflation? Excess government spending?
  122. Governments creating money out of thin air is counterfeiting?
  123. The supply of money vs the “price” of money
  124. “Medium of exchange” is NOT the origin of money
  125. The origin of money
  126. Learn why high marginal income tax rates are good for economic growth
  127. Can the currency issuer spend endlessly?
  128. US dollars and currency ISSUER vs USERS
  129. An introduction to macroeconomics: For laypeople