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How does the stock market work?

AdultsBusinessEconomyIndustry...
In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the globe.

Climate Research Offers Coffee Farmers Hope For Their Crops

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Guatemala's third largest export after raw sugar and bananas is coffee.

What Can You Buy With 5.7 Billion Dollars?

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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)

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

How Much Is Your Body Worth?

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We break down your value piece by piece!

Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy

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

How Much Money Could We Sell The Earth For?

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

Why Cities Exist

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More than 90% of the richest countries population lives in the cities. Here is why?

How Airlines Price Flights

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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.

Universal Basic Income Explained - Free Money for Everybody? UBI

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What the state covered your cost of living, would you still go to work?

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

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China is the country both blessed and coursed in geography.

World's 10 Most Prosperous Countries

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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 colleges where the American dream is still alive

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These schools are much better than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton at making poor kids rich.

You Are Not What You Earn

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The modern world firmly equates how much we earn with how good, noble, wise and worthy of honour we are. This is a brutal misunderstanding of how salaries are determined. We need to operate with a far more nuanced view of what the money we earn says about us.

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

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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.

Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

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When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the day's catch. But modern industrial fishing -- the kind that stocks our grocery shelves -- looks more like warfare. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet explain overfishing and its effects on ecosystems, food security, jobs, economies, and coastal cultures.