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What Can You Buy With 5.7 Billion Dollars?

AdultsEconomyHuman...
What else could you buy with the budget of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall during this government shutdown?

How The Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)

AdultsBusinessEconomy
Everyday in the news we hear about the stock exchange, stocks and money moving around the globe.

How Much Is Your Body Worth?

AdultsEconomyHealth...
We break down your value piece by piece!

Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy

AdultsEcologyEconomy...
Research suggests that more diverse ecosystems are better for the bottom line.

How Much Money Could We Sell The Earth For?

AdultsEconomyWorld
If aliens came to Earth and offered to buy it, how much should we sell it for?

We Asked Bill Gates: Do You Need To Be Rich To Be Healthy?

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This video is in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates. You can check out the Gates Annual Letter here: http://b-gat.es/2Cfph0j

How Airlines Price Flights

AdultsEconomyIndustry...
Airline ticket pricing probably seems like a crapshoot. The numbers change seemingly arbitrarily every week, day, or hour, but there is some real science behind these prices.

Elon Musk's Basic Economics

AdultsEconomyTechnology
Imagine a $2,000 car... or a $100 laptop... or a $70 iPhone... or imagine any product, ten times cheaper than it was.

China's Geography Problem

AdultsEconomyPolitics...
China is the country both blessed and coursed in geography.

Why Public Transportation Sucks in the US

AdultsBusinessEconomy...
Access to transportation is the single most important factor in individual's ability to escape poverty.

World's 10 Most Prosperous Countries

AdultsEconomyWellness...
The top ten countries on the prosperity index, determined by rankings across nine key categories: Economic Quality, Natural Environment, Health, Social Capital, Personal Freedom, Safety and Security, Education, Governance, and Business Environment.

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

AdultsEconomyIndustry
Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what's its environmental impact? Angel Chang traces the life cycle of a t-shirt.

Why Trains are so Expensive

AdultsEconomyTechnology...
Trains require a lot of people to operate.

Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins

AdultsEconomyWork...
This video explains why Chinese manufacturing takes the first place worldwide.

The real reason streetcars are making a comeback

AdultsCitiesEconomy...
It's mostly about economic development.

Why We Hate Cheap Things

AdultsFoodPersonal Finance...
In assessing what material things are important and worth paying attention to, we're oddly prejudiced against cheapness - and frustratingly drawn to the expensive, for reasons that don't necessarily stand up to examination.

Why Japan has so many vending machines

AdultsCultureEconomy...
What vending machines can teach you about this country

NAFTA explained by avocados. And shoes.

AdultsBusinessEconomy...
Everyone hates NAFTA. But what was NAFTA actually supposed to do? Did it deliver on its promise? To understand that, you have to look at America's relationships with two goods: avocados and shoes.

How does money laundering work? - Delena D. Spann

AdultsBusinessEconomy
Money laundering is the term for any process that "cleans" illegally obtained funds of their "dirty" criminal origins, allowing them to be used within the legal economy. And the practice is about as old as money itself. But how does it actually work? Delena D. Spann describes the ins and outs of money laundering. Lesson by Delena D. Spann, animation by Juan M. Urbina.

POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx

AdultsEconomyHistory
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out certain of its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.

The economics of beard popularity in the US

AdultsEconomyPhilosophy...
We may have reached "peak beard."