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Cascading events that shaped the global economy

S2-E3: The Fed

How did the Federal Reserve begin? Well, it all started with one top secret meeting at Jekyll Island, Georgia...a meeting that set the foundation for ...
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S2-Ep2: Keeping Score: The GDP

Politicians developed a metric known as GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, during the depths of the Great Depression to help measure the strength of the ...
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S2-E1: Trade Wars

Trade wars aren’t new.  You may recall Ferris Bueller took a day off from school and in the process missed Ben Stein’s now famous lecture on… anyone, ...
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S1-E9: China: Shadows and Ghosts

From the outside, China appears to have discovered the fountain of unending economic growth.  But is it really just a mirage?  Did China purposefully ...
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S1-E8: European Bumblebees

Could a speech about bumblebees solve Europe’s economic woes? Is it possible for nineteen countries to share a common currency? What happens when inte...
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S1-E5: Thai Game: Soros up to Baht

  American companies poured billions into Thailand in the mid-1990s to utilize the country’s young, educated workforce.  Investors saw the developing ...
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