Economics Explained

This is the Carnival Imagination, a luxury cruise liner worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which just 10 short months ago was touring passengers in extreme comfort to exotic destinations all over ...

4 Dec 202014min

The United States 2020 Presidential election has been called by pretty much every organization that covers the event in any capacity and while the final decision is not made until the special club tha...

29 Nov 202016min

This is the Netherlands, a picturesque nation filled with windmills, tulip fields, and uhh coffee shops.  The nation is looked to by many as an extremely forward-thinking place that practices some pre...

26 Nov 202017min

China has been home to the most extreme economic growth in human history. In four short decades, the nation has gone from a struggling backwater filled with poverty to this, a nation of glistening sky...

22 Nov 202015min

This is Texas, the second-largest state in the USA by landmass, population, and GDP.  But perhaps being runner up is not so bad in all of these categories. Texas has for many decades been a huge drivi...

19 Nov 202020min

In the fallout of one of the most volatile American elections ever financial markets did something very strange, they rose, and rose to new record levels, again. This would be unusual during even a no...

15 Nov 202016min

The war on drugs was declared in 1971 by president Richard Nixon in a press conference that went on to outline a plan to fight the trade of controlled substances across the world. Drugs were declared ...

12 Nov 202017min

Tesla is today the most valuable automaker in the world by market capitalization beating out industry giants like General Motors, Ford, Volkswagen group, and even Toyota.  It has achieved this impress...

8 Nov 202017min