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Chill Financial Historian — 74 episodes

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1

Why France’s Economy is Facing a Massive Shift

2

How Bolivia Ran Out of Dollars, and the Plan to Get Them Back.

3

How Denmark Pays for Its Welfare State (Full Explanation)

4

Rwanda's Economic Model Explained

5

Why Cambodia's Economy Runs on US Dollars (Full Explanation)

6

Angola How Oil Wealth Bypassed Most Angolans

7

Why South Africa's Xenophobia Crisis Is Breaking Its Own Economy (Not the Migrants)

8

Is Mexico's Nearshoring Economy BOOM a Myth? (THE REALITY CHECK)

9

Why the Strait of Hormuz Controls the World Economy

10

Why the Fed Started Raising Rates Again

11

Why Washington DC Has No Voting Representation in Congress

12

The Economy of California Explained

13

The Economy of Houston Explained

14

Why Rich Countries Forgot How to Build | Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

15

How the United Nations ACTUALLY Works (It’s Not What You Think)

16

How the Dominican Republic Became the Caribbean's Biggest Success Story

17

Can AI Actually Destroy Humanity? (or is that just a headline?)

18

How the IMF Actually Decides Which Country Gets Rescued

19

How the Bahamas Actually Got Rich (And Why One Storm Could Undo It)

20

What It's Really Like To Live In London

21

The US is Buying Japanese Yen (Here's WHY)

22

The True REALITY of Morocco's Economy Explained

23

Why Spain Owns Two Cities in Africa (And What Ceuta Really Costs)

24

AI Debt is a Problem (And It's Worse Than You Think)

25

The Economy of Baltimore Explained (It's Not What You Think)

26

Tunisia Was the Arab Spring's Only Success (Here's What Went Wrong)

27

The Rise and Fall of Lebanon

28

The Real TRUTH About De-Dollarisation (And Why It Keeps Failing)

29

The 7 Levels of POOR Countries (And Why They're Stuck)

30

The 7 Levels of RICH Countries Explained (Where Do You Live?)

31

New British PM - Andy Burnham Has a Plan to Fix Britain (Here's Whether It Can Actually Work)

32

NATO Has a Unity Problem — (And Why It Can't Agree on Its Own Enemy)

33

The Real Truth About Russia's Economic Survival (Winning or Losing?)

34

NATO 3.0: The Plan to Make Europe Defend Itself

35

Is it Possible to Scam an Entire Country? (Inside Nigeria's Fake Govt Agency Scandal)

36

Canada’s Empty Condo Disaster (And Why Nobody Is Buying)

37

The Invisible COLLAPSE of British Businesses (The 48.8 Emergency)

38

How Volkswagen Broke (Germany's Industrial Crisis Explained)

39

America at 250: A Superpower at Its Peak — or Past It?

40

How Germany's Economy Broke (The Slow Death of 'Made in Germany')

41

The REAL Danger of the Growing U.S. National Debt (It's Not the $39 Trillion)

42

First Anthropic, Now OpenAI: Washington Is Quietly Taking Over AI Releases (And What Comes Next)

43

Can Britain Just Print Its Debt Away?

44

Britain Just Lost Another Prime Minister (Here's Why The Next One Won't Matter)

45

Why the U.S.-Iran Agreement is an MoU (And Why It Matters)

46

The Economics of AI is BROKEN (The Next Dot-Com Crash?)

47

The Economy of Qatar Explained (How a Desert Out-Earned the World)

48

Did the U.S. Give In to Iran or Not? (The U.S.-Iran MoU Explained)

49

Inside the 14-Point U.S.-Iran Deal Everyone Is Talking About

50

How SpaceX Became Worth $1.77 Trillion While Losing $4 Billion a Year (Road to SpaceX's IPO)

51

Why the US Government Just Forced Anthropic's Fable 5 Offline.

52

How K Street (US Lobbying) Actually Works: And Why It Matters

53

Hosting the World Cup Is a Terrible Investment (And Worth It Anyway)

54

The Economy of Maryland Explained: America's Federal Suburb

55

Germany’s Middle Class is in TROUBLE (The Squeeze)

56

How the United Nations ACTUALLY Works

57

The Slow Death of Canada's Middle Class

58

The Quiet COLLAPSE of the Australian Dream

59

How the UK Quietly Wiped Out Its Own Middle Class

60

Why Europe and America See the Iran War So Differently (And What It Means for the Global Economy)

61

The Economy of Boston Explained (How Boston Became Too Rich to Live In)

62

The True Reality of Cuba's Economy (Inside Cuba's Economic Collapse)

63

Why US-China Leverage Is a Trap for Both Sides

64

How the WHO Actually Works (World Health Organization)

65

The Economy of Washington DC Explained (It's Weird)

66

The Psychology of Switzerland (Why Peaceful Swiss is Obsessed With Bunkers)

67

The Slow Death of the Petrodollar

68

Oil, Crisis, and the IMF: What the 2026 World Economic Outlook Is Really Saying

69

Why Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 Just Got Much Harder (UAE's OPEC Exit Fallout)

70

The Real Reason the UAE Left OPEC (It's Not About Oil)

71

The Economy of New Jersey Explained (It's Not What You Think)

72

How Prediction Markets Actually Work (And Why Wall Street Is Watching)

73

How NATO Actually Works (It's Weirder Than You Think)

74

The Slow DEATH of The Petrodollar (And What Comes Next)