Economics Explained

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

This is Kazakhstan, and yes I know what you are all thinking, and yes in the interest of full disclosure we are definitely cashing in on the hype surrounding the second Borat, but in fairness so is th...

5 Nov 202018min

The US presidential election will be held in 2 days from when this video is published. The process of electing who will go on to be the most powerful man in the world always makes for big news but per...

1 Nov 202022min

In this episode of Economics Explained, we will explore the following questions: What has been behind the boom in the value of Pokemon cards?  Could this be a genuine investment vehicle?  Or is thi...

29 Okt 202013min