An army of retail investors gathered on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum to take on short-selling hedge funds and send shares in video game retailer GameStop, and several other 'meme stocks', on a rollercoaster ride. This film explains how...

Co-Founder of Airbnb, Nate Blecharczyk, and chief executive of The Lowman Group, Isom Lowman, share the ups and downs, failed attempts and what they did and didn't do on their respective journeys to creating successful businesses at the...

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The Consequences of Inequality a<br/>nd Wealth Distribution

In this lecture presentation, the speaker discusses market failure within the financial sector, its causes, and impact on society. The speaker explains the different forms of market failure such as asymmetric information, externalities,...

Data can sometimes be dense and difficult to look at. Today we look at a technique known as sonification that scientists and musicians collaborate to create, a technique that can give researchers a different perspective on the dataset.

Shaikh’s path 4 Capitalism as a Turbulent System

In this video, Bill Carmody interviews Peter Mallouk, the chief investment officer and president of Creative Planning, about important concepts in investing and financial planning. They discuss the difference between brokers and...

The FT's US finance editor Robert Armstrong asks if the recent stock market rally – driven partly by polls favouring a Joe Biden victory in the US presidential election – is a more sinister sign of a growing asset bubble.

Why should you learn economics? Put simply, it's becasue it will make you a better decision maker and help you see the "unseen". Economics is the study how we deal with scarcity so we can use our resources as efficiently as possible. So...

This video provides an overview of the stock market, explaining what stocks are, how the stock market works, and how investors can make money through buying and selling stocks. It also touches on the history of stock exchanges, the...

The U.S. is growing, China is slowing, the Fed appears to have shifted into neutral. Is that a Goldilocks prescription for continued expansion -- or the calm before the storm?

William Lazonick is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and a speaker at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011<br/>

The yield curve has predicted America's last eight recessions. In March this year it inverted again. So what does it mean for America?

William Lazonick, professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell, explains how rationalization, marketization, and globalization characterize the U.S. economy during the past 50 years, and how the behavior of companies and fate of...

Over the last week the subreddit WallStreetBets has been making waves in the stock market, pushing up the values of companies like GameStop and Blackberry. These amateur traders seem to have outwitted and confused the professionals -...

Returns from the S&P 500 in the first quarter of 2019 were the highest since 1998. FT data visualisation journalist Brooke Fox explains why it's not time to break out the champagne.

What happens after the "drop"? Hyped hoodies, sneakers, skateboards and watches have created a new generation of entrepreneurs tapping into the secondary market. Learn more about how this will continue to reshape commerce.

Companies like Apple and Google make billions for rich investors by buying back their own stock—at the expense of workers, the public, and the planet.Economist Bill Lazonick says it’s time to ban the stock buyback scam.William Lazonick...

Ownership and Liability

In this video we will study everything you need to know for exponential and logarithmic functions. We will begin by graphing and then move into simplifying expressions and solving.

The FT's US finance editor Rob Armstrong says investors in the S&P 500 have made above average returns over the past decade. But at this point, that is both reassuring and frightening.

Roman Frydman, Philippe Aghion, William Janeway, William Lazonick, Ha-Joon Chang, and Peter Jungen at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011<br/>

How do economists make their models work. By assuming that investors have rational expectations and that every market participant is alike. However, things quickly get messy once economists start to acknowledge that people are...

Google's former chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt, discusses how big tech can use the pandemic to reshape their fortunes and make an impact to transform healthcare and education.