Economics Explained

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December 24, 2022 How the World's Richest Country Lost 90% of its GDP
In the 1980s Nauru was the richest country in the world on a per capita basis. Nauru's wealth can be entirely attributed to its deposits on Phosphate, a substance used in fertilizers. However, by the early 2000s they had completely run out of Phosphate the country's GDP declined by more than 90%.

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16 min
December 20, 2022 Is inflation finally coming to an end?
Inflation has been perhaps the single biggest issue facing the global economy over the past year and has proven far more persistent than most people originally assumed. But with central banks around the world all raising interest rates, will we finally see inflation go back down to more normal levels?

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14 min
December 07, 2022 How Much Does China Lie About Its Economic Statistics?
Over the past 30 years China has experienced perhaps the most impressive economic growth of any country in history. But these impressive growth numbers all come from official government statistics bureaus. How much can we trust the official statistics?

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21 min
November 28, 2022 Why People are so Angry about the 2022 Economics Nobel Prize
In this podcast we go over the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics

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16 min
November 21, 2022 The Economy of Switzerland
In this video we help you to be more knowledgeable about inflation by looking at countries, most notably Switzerland, that have bucked the global trend in 2022 by reporting tame inflation numbers. We look into what Switzerland did right and what other countries can learn from them.

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15 min
November 03, 2022 What Would The American Economy Look Like If COVID Never Happened?
What Would The American Economy Look Like If COVID Never Happened?

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17 min
October 27, 2022 Could the UK start the next Eurozone crisis?
The UK economy is not having a great year with 40 year high inflation, the Bank of England predicting a recession, and three different prime ministers within the span so 3 months. So what is going on and what does the future hold?

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22 min
October 13, 2022 Why The Gulf States Need To Keep Building Big Dumb Mega Projects
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and other oil rich Middle Eastern states have announced plans to collectively invest trillions of dollars in new megaprojects, the most extreme of which is Saudi Arabia's $1 trillion 170km skyscraper called The Line. Why are these countries spending so much on mega projects and does it make any economic sense?

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24 min
October 06, 2022 India Will Not Be The Next China... It Will Be Bigger
Up until 1990 India was slightly richer than China on a per capita basis, but since then China's economy has grown far faster than India's. In this episode we look at the structural issues in India's economy have thus far prevented it from achieving the same level of economic success as China.

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28 min
September 29, 2022 No. China Is Not Going To Collapse... Yet
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31 min

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On Economics Explained, we take a look at interesting countries, policies, and decisions from the point of view of an economist. The world is an interesting place and we hope to uncover some of this…