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Lists: Economics

34 lists in parts of videos about economics (a written list: in videos about it), oldest first. All topics · Overview

2007

  • 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns · John, 2 named (playful, 1 unnamed item) — Prompted by Hank's hatred of Hummers, John announces the Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club is back, like high-waisted jeans, the Indonesian economy and John Travolta's acting career. (00:00:39)
    … · 2 Indonesia · 3 John Travolta

2010

  • 2010-02-08 · Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money · Hank, 4 named — Hank says Unilever sells Slim-Fast for weight loss while owning about twelve ice cream companies, including Breyers, Klondike Bar, Good Humor and Ben & Jerry's. (00:03:07)
    1 Breyers · 2 Klondike bar · 3 Good Humor · 4 Ben & Jerry's

  • 2010-04-30 · The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes · John, 2 named — Against those blaming wasteful spending, John says the US isn't close to a balanced budget: it would have to eliminate both its two biggest expenses, Social Security and defense, to come close. (00:02:44)
    1 Social Security · 2 United States Department of Defense

  • 2010-04-30 · The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes · John, 2 named — John says countries must keep lending to each other confidently, as in 1945, which is why the EU and IMF are working hard on a bailout plan for Greece. (00:03:14)
    1 European Union “the EU” · 2 International Monetary Fund “the IMF”

  • 2010-09-06 · I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.) · John, 2 named — Second, John says coinage reform isn't partisan: about half its major advocates in the last ten years were Republicans and half Democrats, so it fires up no base. (00:03:15)
    1 Republican Party “Republicans” · 2 Democratic Party “Democrats”

2011

  • 2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 · John, 2 named (playful) — John's example: $7.50 an hour is $247 a week take-home; ten summer weeks make $2,470; after about $500 of spending (Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle, Deathly Hallows, dinners with friends), $1,970 is left. (00:01:19)
    1 Ellen Hardcastle · 2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

  • 2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 · John, 2 named — John tells young viewers to go to a bank and set up an IRA, an individual retirement account; non-US countries from Brazil to Europe have equivalents. (00:01:36)
    1 Brazil · 2 Europe

  • 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! · John, 2 named — No new coins need minting, since a billion $1 coins already exist; just remove the bills. People might be slightly inconvenienced for a while, but Canada and Europe got used to it. (00:02:08)
    1 Canada · 2 Europe

  • 2011-08-10 · Understanding America's Debt Problem · John, 2 named — John defines two kinds of debt: unsecured debt, repaid only on the borrower's word, and collateralized debt like a mortgage, where the lender takes the house on default. (00:00:13)
    1 unsecured debt · 2 secured loan “collateralized debt”

  • 2011-08-10 · Understanding America's Debt Problem · John, 2 named — John explains that independent credit-rating agencies like Standard and Poor's rate debt from AAA down, and a better rating means cheaper debt: Australia pays 4% on ten-year bonds, Greece 15%. (00:02:06)
    1 Australia · 2 Greece

  • 2011-12-30 · How to Tip Properly · Hank, 2 named — Hank says in places like Japan and China tipping is considered insulting. (00:02:55)
    1 Japan · 2 China

  • 2011-12-30 · How to Tip Properly · Hank, 2 named (joke) — Hank jokes that the market idea is how the UK gets QI and Doctor Who while the US is stuck with History Channel documentaries on fictional apocalypses, so 'tipping kills Time Lords'. (00:03:18)
    1 QI · 2 Doctor Who

2012

  • 2012-09-25 · Do Businesses Need to Suck? · John, 2 named — John says we all feel for-profit companies kind of suck even though we like what they make, like iPads and Dr Pepper, and wonders why, as co-owner of one. (00:00:00)
    1 iPad · 2 Dr Pepper

  • 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit · John, 3 named — Contrary to the guess 'China', John says the plurality of that debt is owned by American individuals and institutions; China owns about 8%, Japan 7% and the UK 1%. (00:01:13)
    1 China · 2 Japan · 3 United Kingdom “the UK”

  • 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit · John, 3 named (hypothetical) — John sees a huge future risk if US debt stopped being cheap: investors buying bonds elsewhere would force borrowing at rising rates, spending cuts and tax rises slowing growth, 'and then Greece'. (00:03:38)
    1 Brazil · 2 China · 3 Germany

2013

  • 2013-08-23 · Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth · Hank, 4 named — Hank says most of what we see of cultural history is an artifact of concentrated wealth, and our age's greatest objects - the Burj Khalifa, iPhone, Harry Potter films, Hubble - likely will be too, much of that wealth American. (00:02:29)
    1 Burj Khalifa · 2 iPhone · 3 Harry Potter (film series) · 4 Hubble Space Telescope

  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks · John, 2 named — John says the same happened to escalator and thermos, and nearly to Nintendo, which marketed the phrase 'game console', and Google, which carefully says 'searching' rather than 'googling'. (00:03:05)
    1 Escalator · 2 Thermos

  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks · John, 2 named — John says the same happened to escalator and thermos, and nearly to Nintendo, which marketed the phrase 'game console', and Google, which carefully says 'searching' rather than 'googling'. (00:03:09)
    1 Nintendo · 2 Google

2014

  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? · John, 2 named — John says the Brazilian edition of The Fault in Our Stars, whose title he butchers in Portuguese, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Brazil, more than in Germany or the UK. (00:03:22)
    1 Germany · 2 United Kingdom “the UK”

  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun · Hank, 9 named — Cost per hour of entertainment: Super Bowl, VidCon, movies, video games, comics, board and card games (00:00:22)
    1 Super Bowl · 2 VidCon · 3 film “movie” · 4 video game · 5 comics · 6 board game · 7 card game · 8 The Fault in Our Stars · 9 television

  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? · John, 2 named — John says 42% of American men raised in the bottom 20% of incomes stay there, against 30% in the UK and 25% in Denmark. (00:01:16)
    1 United Kingdom “UK” · 2 Denmark

  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? · John, 2 named — John says that by almost any measure, being born rich or poor predicts ending up rich or poor more in the US than in Canada, Europe or any developed country. (00:01:24)
    1 Canada · 2 Europe

  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? · John, 3 named — John says Canada's pay gap is worse than the US's, while women make 83 cents per men's dollar in Australia, 84 in the UK, 85 in Sweden and 97.5 in Slovenia. (00:02:03)
    1 Australia · 2 Sweden · 3 Slovenia

  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? · John, 4 named — John grants that the regulations and redistributive tax policies that improve equality of opportunity elsewhere limit innovation, partly why Apple, Twitter, Google and In-N-Out Burger began in the US. (00:02:38)
    1 Apple · 2 Twitter · 3 Google · 4 In-N-Out Burger

  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World · John, 2 named (joke) — Food is not boring: corn syrup in Pizza Hut dough; John's new cooking-method-plus-disease curses (00:01:04)
    1 malaria · 2 Ebola virus disease

2015

  • 2015-07-03 · Thoughts from Yachts · Hank, 2 named — Hank hopes growing productivity will one day give everyone enough to minimize suffering, but in Cannes and Saint-Tropez he worries no one will ever be satisfied, so wealth keeps concentrating instead of serving global goals like ending poverty, war and climate insecurity. (00:02:18)
    1 Cannes · 2 Saint-Tropez

  • 2015-07-03 · Thoughts from Yachts · Hank, 3 named — Hank hopes growing productivity will one day give everyone enough to minimize suffering, but in Cannes and Saint-Tropez he worries no one will ever be satisfied, so wealth keeps concentrating instead of serving global goals like ending poverty, war and climate insecurity. (00:02:28)
    1 extreme poverty · 2 war · 3 climate change

  • 2015-07-07 · Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece · John, 4 named — Explanations differ: some point to higher labor costs after joining the Eurozone, too much debt from the start, tax evasion, and the 2008 recession hitting Greek shipping and tourism. (00:01:59)
    1 Labour cost “labor costs” · 2 government debt · 3 Tax evasion · 4 Great Recession

  • 2015-12-04 · The Explain The 2008 Financial Crisis CHALLENGE! (and 7 other challenges) · Hank, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — Hank names four institutions in the story: lenders who made the loans, investment banks who bought, packaged and resold them, ratings agencies who rated their risk, and investors who bought them. (00:00:24)
    … · 2 Investment banking · 3 Credit rating agency “ratings agencies”

2017

  • 2017-01-10 · What Is the Real Unemployment Rate? · John, 3 named — John says U3 matches international standards, allowing comparison: a similar measure puts Brazil at 12%, Germany at 4.1% and Spain at 19%. (00:03:26)
    1 Brazil · 2 Germany · 3 Spain

2022

  • 2022-02-01 · This Video Is Actually Three Videos · John, 2 named — John says the most important issues, from monetary policy to expanding healthcare access, cannot be boiled down to a lot of benefit at no cost; pennies are ridiculous but easy, important things are neither. (00:02:12)
    1 Monetary policy · 2 universal health care “expanding healthcare access”

  • 2022-04-29 · 5 Ways to Actually Understand Very Large Numbers · Hank, 4 named — Hank says the US, the UK, Germany and France all spend roughly the same per citizen. (00:01:56)
    1 United States “the U.S.” · 2 United Kingdom “the U.K.” · 3 Germany · 4 France

2023

  • 2023-08-01 · Three Mornings · video description, 2 named — The description thanks Abi Rein and Jessica Rollins for traveling to Colombia, the DFTBA staff who packed the coffee orders, Rosianna Halse Rojas for translation and captions, Sucafina and roaster First Crack.
    1 Abi Rein · 2 Jessica Rollins

2026