Econwising

In this episode, we take the core ideas of the book "why nations fail" and turn them into a comprehensible interpretation of why property rights are so important. I think this is something everyone should be aware of, since its impacts is so far reached

I have several friends, and all of them are on national minimum wage. You'll find the series of stories that I go on to talk about a bit sparse, but the national minimum wage was never about economics...

House chores are not calculated in GDP, because they are not financial transactions. Perhaps we should ponder around the underlying gender inequality as well as the economic potential of this thing which is so familiar, yet not well understood. 

Of course, generating passive income is an incredibly hard process. Indeed, in this episode, Ben LeFort gives out some better advices for building income quicker...

Debt is always found to be not so good as a thing to have. But, do you know that government debt is not actually debt as we know it? In this episode, Clare Connolly goes on to explain why it is as such...

So many things have happened in coming years, and technology has made a huge progress. In this episode, Maggie Chua goes on to explain some of the things we need to be aware of before starting to suck all the Co2 we have emitted in the atmosphere back to earth...

AI is mysterious. So mysterious, in fact, that there are many theories emerging from "keyboard warriors". These theories are not necessarily true...

For me, the euro crisis was something I would definitely hear people throwing around quite often, even though I did not really understand the ins and outs of it fully. Why not take this as an opportunity?

This episode provides content from:

https://www.thebalance.com/eurozone-debt-crisis-causes-cures-and-consequences-3305524

Fintech has definitely gained significant recognition over the coming years: some might argue that they are going to challenge banks. However, this is unlikely the case, and we'll see why. 

This episode provides content from:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/09/why-fintech-startups-arent-killing-banks-yet/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMiIVwjBoQTqEBfYC18lWR1THBE5MoAt8y9A61UwHE82NddwliDoECVRntrOcGKkmIay5BS_WlCaqsspOikH27PzUPDBvz4rrVVI3QjkqjB_7ykjQI6j8eVsOVJIyEvxeXcQvpkXOqbxK1fHHSnOUN210tQCQ1hbPE1xRMIn-2sh

It is no joke that the world's population is increasing at an unsustainable rate. It is also true that we are going to face calorie shortages if we don't change our consumption patterns. Time to dust off Malthus' theories?