The Sleepy Economist

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The Sleepy Economist

Welcome to The Sleepy Economist — where timeless lessons of money, markets, and human behavior become your nightly lullaby.Each episode turns classic finance and economic writings into calm, story-driven narrations designed to help you unwind, learn, and drift off peacefully. From Adam Smith to Benjamin Franklin, discover how the ideas that shaped our financial world sound when whispered through history’s pages.Whether you’re here to fall asleep, relax after a long day, or absorb a little wisdom before dreams — you’re in the right place.New episodes weekly.Soft voices. Smart ideas. Soun

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    🌙 Wealth Manifestation Sleep Talk — Attract Money While You Drift Off | Sleepy Economist

    Fall asleep to The Sleepy Economist’s Wealth Manifestation Sleep Talk — gentle, repeated affirmations designed to help your mind accept wealth, stability, and receiving as normal.This episode focuses on building real wealth in every form: financial security, generational wealth, time freedom, relationships, and meaningful experiences.🎧 Series: Sleepy Financial Affirmations (Manifestations for Sleep)🕯️ Theme: Wealth Manifestation💤 Voice: Valorie — calm male narration in a slow, steady tone for late-night listeningAbout The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that shaped our financial world become your nightly lullaby.Fall asleep to calm readings and affirmations in economics, money, and timeless wisdom.📺 Subscribe for new sleep audios weekly.Relaxation and education only. Not financial advice.

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    🕯️ Sleepy Money Manifestations — Abundance & Receiving (Affirmations for Sleep)

    Enjoy The Sleepy Economist’s soothing bedtime affirmations for financial abundance, calm money mindset, and receiving — designed to help you drift off while gentle affirmations repeat in the background.Tonight’s flow is simple: breathing to relax first, then slow, repeated affirmations to support a richer, steadier financial life — without pressure, without effort, just rest.🎧 Series: Sleepy Financial Affirmations (Manifestations for Sleep)🕯️ Theme: Abundance & Receiving💤 Voice: Valorie — calm female narration in a slow, steady tone for late-night listening.About The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that shaped our financial world… become your nightly lullaby.Sleep-friendly audio for calm minds — from classic finance readings to gentle money affirmations.📺 Subscribe for new sleep audios weekly.https://youtube.com/@thesleepyeconomist?si=mBKSbU7JyfVT-XG3Gentle note: This is relaxation content and not financial advice.

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    💤 The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum (Full Sleepy Reading) | Sleepy Economist

    Enjoy The Sleepy Economist’s soothing bedtime reading of The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum — a classic, practical look at earning, habits, and personal conduct around money.This is a calm, slow narration designed for late-night listening: educational, comforting, and easy to fall asleep to.🎧 Series: Classic Money Books (Sleep Reading)🕯️ Book: The Art of Money Getting💤 Voice: Valorie — calm female narration in a slow, steady tone✍️ Written by: P.T. BarnumAbout The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that shaped our financial world become your nightly lullaby.Fall asleep to gentle readings of classic works in economics, money, and human nature — from Adam Smith to Barnum and beyond.📺 Subscribe for new sleep readings.This is an educational reading of a classic text and is not financial advice.

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    It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down (Ray Dalio) | Bedtime Economics

    Tonight’s episode is a calm reading of a public post shared by Ray Dalio on X (Twitter): “It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down.”Dalio explains what he calls Stage 6 of the “Big Cycle” — a period where global rules weaken, power dynamics take over, and conflict can escalate across multiple dimensions (trade, technology, capital, geopolitics, and military).This reading is for education and reflection. It is not financial advice.If you’re listening to unwind, you don’t need to catch every detail — just let the words pass by gently.Goodnight. 🌙#SleepyEconomist #CalmReading #RayDalio

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    💤 The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis | Calm Reading on AI, Markets, and the Future Economy

    Tonight on The Sleepy Economist, we do a calm reading and reflection on “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” — a thought exercise in financial history from the future, exploring what could happen if AI productivity surges while the human consumer economy weakens.Based on the original substack post by Alap Shah and CitriniResearch:https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gicThis episode covers themes like:- AI-driven productivity and layoffs- “ghost GDP” and consumer demand weakness- pressure on SaaS, payments, and intermediation businesses- mortgage risk, labor displacement, and policy lag- the “intelligence premium” and how markets may reprice itThis is a slow, relaxing economics reading for sleep, focus, or quiet thinking — not financial advice.If you enjoy calm macro content, public-domain finance reads, and thoughtful economic storytelling, subscribe for more episodes from The Sleepy Economist.#SleepyEconomist #AI #Economics #Macro #Markets #FinancialHistory #CalmReading #SleepPodcast #AlapShah #Citrini

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    Warren Buffett’s Investment Wisdom — A Calm, Reimagined Lecture for Sleep

    Tonight’s episode is a calm, narrated lecture inspired by the public investment principles of Warren Buffett — reimagined into a soothing, timeless format designed for late-night listening.You’ll hear ideas about:- Discipline over prediction- Patience and long-term thinking- Understanding what you invest in- Building habits that protect your financial future- Learning through reflection and self-reviewThis is not an official recording or transcript. It’s a neutral, sleep-friendly reimagining of widely discussed financial lessons from his speeches.🎧 Best enjoyed with low volume, lights dim, and no need to “stay awake” — just let the ideas settle.

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    🌙 The Market Economy: The Machine That Built Modern Life | Calm Finance Bedtime Lecture

    Enjoy The Sleepy Economist’s soothing, original bedtime lecture on The Market Economy — the quiet machine that built modern life.This calm, story-driven episode isn’t an audiobook reading — it’s an educational, college-style talk designed to help you unwind while you learn. We trace how markets emerged naturally through voluntary exchange, why money and prices became the world’s coordination system, and how private property, competition, and specialization shaped growth across centuries. Then we widen out to the modern debate—free markets vs. capitalism vs. socialism—clearing up what those terms actually mean, why most countries are mixed economies, and how history keeps returning to the same tradeoffs between efficiency, stability, and fairness.Along the way we explore the forces that make market economies feel inspiring… or rigged: monopoly and antitrust, labor bargaining power, globalization, housing scarcity, financial crises, inflation, central banks, and why legitimacy—public trust in the rules—may be the true foundation underneath any economic system.🎧 Series: Sleepy Economist — Original Lectures (Sleep Learning)🕯️ Topic: The Market Economy (History, Features, How It Works)💤 Voice: PAUL — calm male narration in a slow, steady tone for late-night listening.📚 Style: Original lecture (not a book reading)About The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that built our financial world become your nightly lullaby.Fall asleep to gentle readings and original lectures on classic economics, philosophy, and finance — from Adam Smith to Benjamin Franklin and beyond.📺 Subscribe for new sleep episodes weekly: https://youtube.com/@TheSleepyEconomist?si=Gd2j4U7y9aqKN6PZ💬 Comment what topic or classic book you’d like next!

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    📖 Wealth of Nations Ep. 3 — Ch. 7-8 “Commodities + Wages of Labour" | Finance Audiobook for Sleep

    Enjoy The Sleepy Economist’s soothing bedtime reading of the classic finance and economics masterpiece The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.This full, relaxing narration (Book 1, Chapters VII – VIII) has the timeless ideas that shaped modern economics.Each episode of The Sleepy Economist turns history’s greatest financial writings into calm, story-driven readings designed to help you unwind, learn, and drift peacefully to sleep.🎧 Series: The Wealth of Nations (Sleep Reading)🕯️ Chapters Covered: VII-VIII💤 Voice: PAUL - Calm male narration in a slow, steady tone — designed for late-night listening.📘 Written by: Adam Smith (1776)About The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that built our financial world become your nightly lullaby.Fall asleep to gentle readings of classic works in economics, philosophy, and finance — from Adam Smith to Benjamin Franklin and beyond.📺 Subscribe for new sleep readings weekly: https://youtube.com/@thesleepyeconomist?si=Gd2j4U7y9aqKN6PZ🌙 Explore more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNDZfXBH9bceb4kPp8u50VC3U3ZmHqLZS💬 Comment below what book you’d like to hear next!Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction00:19 - Chapter VII – OF THE NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE OF COMMODITIES.20:55 - Chapter VIII – OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR.

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    🌙 Wealth of Nations Ep.2 — Ch. 4-6 “Price of Commodities” | Sleepy Finance Audiobook

    Enjoy The Sleepy Economist’s soothing bedtime reading of the classic finance and economics masterpiece The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.This full, relaxing narration (Chapters IV–VI) has the timeless ideas that shaped modern economics.Each episode of The Sleepy Economist turns history’s greatest financial writings into calm, story-driven readings designed to help you unwind, learn, and drift peacefully to sleep.🎧 Series: The Wealth of Nations (Sleep Reading)🕯️ Chapters Covered: IV-VI💤 Voice: PAUL - Calm male narration in a slow, steady tone — designed for late-night listening.📘 Written by: Adam Smith (1776)About The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that built our financial world become your nightly lullaby.Fall asleep to gentle readings of classic works in economics, philosophy, and finance — from Adam Smith to Benjamin Franklin and beyond.📺 Subscribe for new sleep readings weekly:https://youtube.com/@thesleepyeconomist?si=Gd2j4U7y9aqKN6PZ🌙 Explore more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNDZfXBH9bceb4kPp8u50VC3U3ZmHqLZS💬 Comment below what book you’d like to hear next!Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction00:19 - Chapter IV – OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY.15:32 - Chapter V – OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY.55:31 - Chapter VI – OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES.

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    💤 Wealth of Nations Ep.1 — Ch. 1-3 “Division of Labor” | Calm Bedtime Economics

    Enjoy The Sleepy Economist’s soothing bedtime reading of the classic finance and economics masterpiece The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.This full, relaxing narration (Chapters I–III) explores the Division of Labour, Principles of Trade, and the Origin of Money — the timeless ideas that shaped modern economics.Each episode of The Sleepy Economist turns history’s greatest financial writings into calm, story-driven readings designed to help you unwind, learn, and drift peacefully to sleep.🎧 Series: The Wealth of Nations (Sleep Reading)🕯️ Chapters Covered: I–III💤 Voice: PAUL - Calm male narration in a slow, steady tone — designed for late-night listening.📘 Written by: Adam Smith (1776)About The Sleepy Economist:Where the ideas that built our financial world become your nightly lullaby.Fall asleep to gentle readings of classic works in economics, philosophy, and finance — from Adam Smith to Benjamin Franklin and beyond.📺 Subscribe for new sleep readings weekly: www.youtube.com/@UCEHvtQ_FRfN7nMQuoEA_sTw 🌙 Explore more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNDZfXBH9bceb4kPp8u50VC3U3ZmHqLZS💬 Comment below what book you’d like to hear next!Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction06:39 - Chapter I – Division of Labour26:18 - Chapter II –   THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.35:03 - Chapter III –   THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IS LIMITED BY THE EXTENT OF THE MARKET.

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Welcome to The Sleepy Economist — where timeless lessons of money, markets, and human behavior become your nightly lullaby.Each episode turns classic finance and economic writings into calm, story-driven narrations designed to help you unwind, learn, and drift off peacefully. From Adam Smith to Benjamin Franklin, discover how the ideas that shaped our financial world sound when whispered through history’s pages.Whether you’re here to fall asleep, relax after a long day, or absorb a little wisdom before dreams — you’re in the right place.New episodes weekly.Soft voices. Smart ideas. Soun

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