Money & Macro

How much do immigrants actually cost Europe's taxpayers?

243K views · 8d ago · 22:17

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Topics: what does immigration really cost you? · how do researchers calculate the cost · who pays in, and who costs more? · same family, different bill · what this means for Europe

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How Korea built a world class defence industry from scratch

199K views · 10d ago · 29:12

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What's really causing the affordability crisis?

218K views · 24d ago · 20:11

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Topics: the theory of the vibecession · Baumol's cost disease · there is something wrong with inflation statistics

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Why 98% of economists support a land value tax

360K views · 1mo ago · 21:13

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How Vienna solved the housing crisis

226K views · 1mo ago · 17:47

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Why you should stop worrying about the birth rate collapse

313K views · 2mo ago · 16:21

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How long can the US keep borrowing so much?

271K views · 3mo ago · 15:21

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Topics: decades of warnings · when do governments go broke? · America’s danger zone · the likely endgame

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Why do 90% of economists oppose rent control?

401K views · 3mo ago · 19:14

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Why Japan industrialized before China

344K views · 3mo ago · 33:06

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How is Spain’s mass migration experiment going?

186K views · 4mo ago · 18:53

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Topics: what Spain’s migration surge actually looks like · is Spain getting richer? · the real cost

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What happens when you stop taxing billionaires?

564K views · 4mo ago · 19:46

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What happened to China's property collapse?

416K views · 4mo ago · 13:15

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What happened when Norway raised taxes on the wealthy?

250K views · 4mo ago · 15:07

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Topics: how big was the exodus really? · how Norway’s wealth tax really works · three waves since 2022

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Why Japan isn’t broke yet

315K views · 5mo ago · 21:40

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Topics: Japan's debt puzzle · how Japan’s government became a giant hedge fund · how likely is Japan's hedge fund to explode

Iran's crumbling economy

145K views · 6mo ago · 13:49

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Why do right-wing populists keep coming back?

98K views · 6mo ago · 21:54

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The PetroDollar is a myth. The Iran war confirmed it.

204K views · 6mo ago · 18:14

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Who will pay for 100 million boomer pensions?

388K views · 6mo ago · 17:43

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Why Hungary's election may soon disappoint

88K views · 7mo ago · 10:47

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If the strait opens, what happens to the economy?

101K views · 7mo ago · 16:43

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Topics: deal · economy · peace?

A massive food crisis is coming

222K views · 7mo ago · 12:36

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The Gulf economies are in BIG trouble

238K views · 7mo ago · 26:08

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Why are economists not more worried about inequality?

134K views · 7mo ago · 22:31

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How bad will the energy crisis get?

296K views · 7mo ago · 19:32

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Topics: context · scenarios · other effects

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