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Cuba Was Barely Holding On… And Then The Oil Ran Out

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How Kim Jong Un "Accidentally" Fixed North Korea's Economy

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The Economy Gave Up On Young People ... It's Starting To Show

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Does Taiwan Have Dutch Disease?

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Why Are Countries Abandoning OPEC?

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Uruguay Has No Resources, But They're Rich

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The Iran War Looks Very Different from Europe

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Did Pensions Destroy France?

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What Is The Net Worth Of The World

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Iran's Economy Was Collapsing … And Then The War Started

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Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?

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Dubai Was An Economic Miracle, Then They Got Bombed

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The End Game of U.K Economics

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How AI Will Play Out, Explained

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Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ... Literally

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How Has Nepal Been Going?

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Why Essential Workers Are Going Extinct

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MIT Just Found The Cause Of The AI Bubble

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Has the World Become Uninsurable?

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Finland's Happy Little Economic Crisis

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How Much Does Clickbait Cost the Global Economy?

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How Economics Has Changed Dating

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What’s Really Behind Africa’s “Economic Miracle”

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Is Degrowth the Only Answer?

25

Why $129,000 Is the New Poor

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The Rise Of The Middle Powers

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Did China Just Drop The Ball On Global Dominance?

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A Short Story About Why You Cannot Buy A House

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The $400 Trillion Problem No One Wants to Talk About

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics: Explained

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Why Everyone is leaving New Zealand

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Stagflation

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What Happens When Capitalism Doesn't Need Workers Anymore?

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Is the survival of humanity economically viable?

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Why do We Still Need to Work?

36

Do We Still Need Central Banks?

37

Iran's Economic Dilemma

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Have Europe's Great Powers Given Up?

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China’s Debt Problem Is 300% Bigger Than America’s

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Denmark Should Not be Rich

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Why Foreign Aid Fails

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Is Gen Z Actually As Poor As They Claim To Be?

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How Malaysia Did Economics Differently

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Is This the Recession the US Needs to Have?

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Why Everyone Thinks California Is Collapsing

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Is the Australian Economy Doomed?

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How Poland Is Quietly Winning the Economic Game

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Introducing: Tools & Weapons Podcast

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How The Finance Industry Destroys Economies

50

In Defence of DOGE

51

Could a US Sovereign Wealth Fund Actually Work?

52

Revenge of the BRICS

53

How Has Canada Been Going?

54

The Anatomy of a Failed State

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The Teeny Tiny Economy of Greenland

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Has Japan Mastered Economic Stagnation?

57

Can Tariffs Actually Work?

58

How Massachussets Became the Richest State in the USA

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How has Sri Lanka Been Going?

60

How Europe Sabotaged It's Own Economy

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The End of South Korea's Economic Miracle

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How Iceland Lost 50% of It's GDP, And Recovered

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Why Does The US Import Oil When They Produce So Much?

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How Africa’s Biggest Economy Lost 50% of Its GDP

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How Chile's Economy Was Sold to The Highest Bidder

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics: Explained

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Why Paying People to Have Babies is a Billion-Dollar Mistake

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The Broken Economy of Washington DC

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How Elections Damage the Economy

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Egypt's Wasted Potential

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Does Switzerland Deserve to Be the Richest Economy in the World?

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How Chinese Industry Got Too Good Too Fast

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Has The Gulf Mega Finance Experiment Failed?

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Could Thailand Reshape Asia Despite Its Chronic Instability?

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The Most Mismanaged Economy in the World

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Spain Was a Warning

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Brazil Should Be a Superpower, but It Isn’t...

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Do The Olympics Predict Economic Disaster?

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How Hawaii Became a Poor State Made For the Rich

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How a new type of immigration is radically changing Portugal's economy.

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Is Ireland's Economy a Scam?

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Why Mississippi Is the Worst State in the USA

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Could The Philippines Predict Our Next Decade?

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How Has Turkey Been Going?

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What Makes The Netherlands So Special?

86

The Ranks of Global Billionaires: Not All Billionaires Are Made Equal

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The Economics of Disasters

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The Economy of Sweden

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The Economy of the Philippines

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The Economy of the Soviet Union

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The Economy of South Africa

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The Tragic Reality of Brain Drain on Poor Countries

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The World's Poorest Country is Sitting on $24 Trillion

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Why Canada Is Banning Foreigners From Buying Homes

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Why India Is Stuck Between Poverty and Superpower

96

The Failing Economy of Pakistan

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Why Bangladesh Won't Be The Next China

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Do Bank Failures Always Cause Recessions? (SVB)

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Has The EU Actually Been Good For Europe?

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How Zimbabwe's Lithium Export Ban Could Transform it into Africa's Next Superpower