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When baby boomers started working, about 5 of them had to work to provide for every pensioner. Today, this number has gone down to around three workers per pensioner in OECD countries. And this will only get worse based in the OECD projections, thirty years from now there will be...
From politicians to Youtubers, from the pope to Nobel Prize–winning economists, voices across the spectrum agree on one thing: inequality is rising, AND it’s VERY VERY dangerous. But, what if the EVIDENCE to back up those statements is actually far weaker than we previously thought? That would be strange right?...
This is the Persian Gulf, where roughly 20% of the world’s oil and 20% of the world’s natural gas comes from. Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi and the UAE, almost all of their oil and gas has to pass through THIS narrow strait. The strait of Hormuz, which is currently...
History tells us that no currency remains at the top forever. First, it was the Dutch Guilder, then the British Pound, and now, the world is asking if the U.S. Dollar is next. A SO-CALLED SELL AMERICA TRADE the American currency by the way slipped to its lowest level against...
According to the American government, Europe faces the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The main reason… American leaders like JD Vance are quite clear: “””The greatest threat in Europe is that the leaders of the West decided they should send millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into...
The president of the United States recently shared this photoshopped image on social media, showing NATO leaders a map where the US has taken control of Venezuela, but more shockingly, territory from loyal NATO allies that helped the US fight several wars in the past decades: Denmark and Canada. To...
Ok, it’s official. 2025 was the year creativity ‘seemingly’ died. The best selling movies -like Zootopia 2, Jurasic World, and Mission Impossible 8- were all sequels, OR they were remasters like Lilo & Stich and How to train your dragon. Similarly, the best selling video games: -Battlefield 6, Borderlands 4,...
2025 was dominated by Trump and his tariffs. And, 2026.. well that will be the year that China will DOMINATE the global economy, more and more governments will hit a debt limit, the A.I. bubble will NOT pop and China will blockade Taiwan. Hey, I’m Joeri, I have a PhD...
America has a massive gun violence problem. Compared to other wealthy countries, the US murder rate is extremely high, and behind most of those deaths is the pull of a trigger. The obvious solution is to ban guns. But, yeah, this is unlikely to happen. Luckily , I have some...
China has weaponized it critical minerals monopoly on which the entire Western industrial base depends. According to European Council of Foreign relations expert dr. Tobias Gherke, this dependency is even worse than Europe’s 2021 dependence on Russian gas, which led to a massive energy crisis in 2022. So, if China...
Someone tell me, someone tell me and explain to me what is going on what’s going on with the job market recently! Okay.. okay, I’ll do it. As you’ve just seen, to a lot of, especially young people, it feels like it’s really difficult to get a job right now....
The UN predicts that we will reach peak humanity by 2083. But now, more and more economists like University of Pennsylvania professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde are saying that this UN prediction is ,actually, far too optimistic. Instead, he argues that 2055 will be the year of peak humanity in size, and...
Intro Clip 1 Macroeconomics has not been successful for 200 years. It’s been a failure for 200 years. No progress. Intro Clip 2 I think most economic ideas are bad ideas Intro Clip 3 If there is a group of people that I can’t stand is these f**ing economists driving...
As a truck driver starts his shift, he turns on the radio. The news reports record corporate profits and a booming stock market. His pay, however, is struggling to keep up with rising prices. Does this story sound familiar? It very well could because, as you can see here, in...
Is Russia’s economy about to collapse? Russia’s economy is about to collapse. So far, these predictions have always proved wrong. But, now, with oil prices down, a new Russia collapse narrative has emerged which essentially says that: “””war’s been a huge stimulus for the Russian economy. But, they can’t do...
Europe, the US, East Asia and Latin America, all across the world, fewer and fewer gen-Z men and women are forming relationships. This is a really big deal for the global economy because —given that you need two people to make a baby— Gen-Z’s love crisis is causing birth rates...
1933, Berlin is hit hard by the global great depression. With 30% of the German working age population unemployed, soup kitchen lines like this are everywhere. Fast forward to Berlin in 1939. It’s Hitler’s birthday. Unemployment is close to 0%, the soup kitchens are gone and instead we see Hitler’s...
Rising YouTube star Gary Stephenson from Gary’s economics has recently made huge waves with his message that average people in countries like the UK will collapse into poverty, desperate poverty. I’m talking about Charles Dickens. Oliver f*n Twist. That is the future of this country if we don’t deal with...
Trump’s trade war…… Yes, it’s already been 6 months since Trump kicked off his presidency by announcing tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada. This triggered a massive fall in the US stock market. But, today, the stock market is higher than ever, despite Trump threatening more and more tariffs. And,...
Okay, it’s official, China’s economy is getting weirder and weirder. On the one hand, it is showing all the signs of a Japan style slowdown. It is plagued by deflation. Youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the government is introducing more and more stimulus measures to try to get people...