The Economy: Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics 

>> What is an economy?

Economic activity

Capitalist

Communist

Adam Smith

Karl Marx

Wealth of Nations

Communist Manifesto

Das Kapital

The Enlightenment

Latin Christianity

John Maynard Keynes

Milton Friedman

government intervention

spending

monetary intervention

interest rates

savings

investments

street hawker

Google

Citibank

Too big to fail

Informal Economy

grey economy

black economy

white economy

laissez-faire

Gross Domestic Product GDP

Gross National Product GNP

Purchasing Power Parity PPP

debt

inflation

unemployment

trade

consumer spending

stock market

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

Crypto

Universal Basic Income UBI

ALSO : See my Episode 10 - The History of Money

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History of Propaganda

Media

News Media

Mass Media

Communication

Paper

Cai Lun

Moveable Type

Bi Sheng

Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg

Radio

James Clerk Maxwell

Internet

Mobile

Cloud

Ad nauseam

Far

Lies

Bandwagon

Discord

Dictat

Disinformation

Gaslighting

News

Red Herring

Scapegoating

Straw Man

Whataboutism

#Propaganda

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Who, What, Where, When, Why?

Humans near bizarre eternal quest to 'guess' how everything was created

Goldy divine creation OR random, lucky evolution?

Darwin

Decent of Man

Origin of Species

ex nihilo

God

Hebrew Bible

Egypt

Rig Veda

Fon

Mande

Kikuyu

Maya

Cherokee

Kuterstan

Mongols

Turks

Chinese

Japanese

Slavic

Old Norse

Sumerian

Hebrew

Christian

Islamic

Babylonian

Zoroastrian

Maori

Hindu

Buddhist

Jain

Darwinism

#Evolution

#Creation

#God

#Darwin

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We attempt to answer the question - would you die or kill for your country or a politician? We look at the various types of nations, states, governments...

Nation

Government

State

Ethnicity

Country

Federation

Nationalism

Citizenship

Identity

Tribe

National Emblem

National God/ Gods

Secularism

National Memory

National language

Traditions

National Myths

Flags

Currency

Patriotism

Military

Borders

Government

Totalitarianism

Dicatorship

Monarchy

Democracy

Theocracy

Republic

Legislature

Constitution

Stateless

#Nation

#State

#Country

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Understanding India's borders PART III

Includes a summary of reasons for Kashmir conflict through history

Kashmir conflict

1948 war with Pakistan

1962 war with China

1965 war with Pakistan

1971 war with Pakistan

War Of Bangladesh Independence

Shimla Accord 1972

Line of Control LOC

China

Princely States

Nehru

Jinnah

Patel

Mountbatten

Hindu

Muslim

Sikh

British

McMahon Line

Bangali genocide

two nation theory

#Kashmir & #Bangladesh

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Understanding India's borders PART II

The Independence movement,

Partition & the related communal violence

the biggest mass migration in human history

Partition

Two Nation Theory

Government of India Act 1947

Gandhi

Nehru

Ambedkar

Jinnah

Savarkar

Sardar Patel

Mountbatten

Attlee

Radcliffe

Maulana Azad

Bose

Prabhavati Devi

Jayaprakash Narayan

Pakistan

India

Radcliffe Line

Punjab

Bengal

Border

Violence

Mass Migration

Refugees

Muslims

Hindus

Sikhs

Christians

British

#India & #Pakistan

#Partition

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Understanding India's borders

India's journey to independence from the fall of the East India Company in 1857 to the end of World War II in 1945

Mangal Pandey

Dadabhai Naoroji

The first partition of Bengal

Congress

Muslim League

Subash Chandra Bose

Gandhi

Nehru

Gokhale

Amritsar Massacre

Non-cooperation movement

Government of India Act 1919 & 1935

Lahore Resolution

Two Nation Theory

Jinnah

Quit India Movement

Pakistan

India

#India & #Pakistan

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The origins of money in history all the way from barter to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Deep dive into Crypto-currencies.

Learn about money in just 35mins ... listen to the pod in speed x1.25 or 1.5x speed

$BTC / $ETH

#money

#barter

#notes

#coins

#crypto

#cryptocurrency

#blockchain

#digital

#ethereum

#bitcoin

#altcoin

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How did the Left-wing and Right-wing originate? Who started t? Why?

Why do we spend so much time and energy on supporting one and not the other?

How to escape the cycle of Left vs Right

Left-wing & Right-wing explained in the context of:

The United States of America

The United Kingdom

The Republic of India

#BJP

#Congress Party

#Conservatives

#Labour

#Liberals

#Democrats

#Repubicans

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Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Policy & Realpolitik - how did it start? what do these terms mean?

What is international law, who is in the international community?

What is a Treaty?

Significance of the Peace at Westphalia

Vienna Convention

Paris Accord

League of Nations & the United Nations

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Arthashastra by Chanakya

The Prince by Machiavelli

#history

#politics

#diplomacy

#foreign policy

#government

#international relations

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