Economics Explained

How is it even possible for a company to be worth more than $1 trillion? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Say you find yourself sitting on top of a vast fortune of funds that were acquired legitimately (or otherwise), and let's just say this vast fortune propels you to billionaire status. Congratulations!...

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Check out our corresponding video on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments. --- Nouriel Roubini is an economist and professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his expertise in ma...

Is there such a thing as "good debt"? And how could something good cause so many issues? On top of this is there any way that we could just run an economy without debt and would we be better off for d...

The internet is widely hailed as one of the most economically impact inventions of the modern era. But there is one much more mundane invention that at least one economist believes was even more impor...

Economic growth is something that is important to every global citizen today. But it's not something to necessarily take for granted – we are certainly not "owed" long-term growth. We must earn it. An...

What will the potential economic outcomes of leadership change be why is it that a dictatorship inherently makes for a poor economy? What the potential outcomes will be for North Korea will be in the ...