This amazing website allows you to listen to America's Famous speeches. Form Martin Luther King, Jr. to John F. Kennedy to Ronald Regan, you will find their speeches here.
This two hour video is a PBS documenatry based on the book of the same title. It provides and excellent history of money and banking, as well as explanations concerning the financial crisis.
- Behaviorial Economics
- Daniel Kahneman - Explorations of the Mind: Intuition: Kahneman is a psychologist who received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in behavioral economics. Ask yourself: Is the assumption in economics of a super-rational actor correct? If not, what are the implications?
- Dan Ariely-Predictably Irrational:Ariely has written a great book on behavioral economics, and has also created several videos, which correspond to the chapters in his book. Watch the Predictably Irrational Videos.
So, you think your factory job is threatened by cheap labor in some far away land? Guess again. Guess again. People are not your competition. If you make your living by the sweat of your brow and not your brain, machines are your competition. If they are not already faster, stronger and more accurate than you are, they soon will be.
This is a PBS Frontline program on the Financial Crisis. This program focuses on the purchase of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America.
C-SPAN broadcasts Congressional hearings, Political Speeches, Debates, Book Reviews and many other programs of public interest. Many of these programs can be viewed through their website.
The Cato Institute is well known for its support of free trade. On this web site, the Cato Institute offers videos discussing issues associated with trade.
This is a great video if you are interested into the mathematics behind chaos, fractals and complexity.
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PBS presents this documentary explaining the economic history of the 20th Century. Through this website you can view the documentary and review numerous supporting documents and transcripts of the documentary. The website also offers a book of the same name. The book is the only thing better than this documentary.
This is a short video on the Credit Crisis, but is extremely well done. I am amazed at how much they packed into a few short minutes, and in a very entertaining way.
Are you curious about where technology will be taking us next. In 2004, the Library of Congress asked many of the countries top experts in technology to discuss their ideas on this topic. You can listen to these lectures online.
Listen to interviews with leading economists.
This short clips helps to explain how the amazing productivity growth in agriculture has come about.
This video from southern California shows what is left behind after neighborhoods of new homes have been abandoned as houses have fallen into foreclosure as a result of the sub-prime crisis.
This program explains the concept and history of fractal geometry.
Great video, if you want to understand more about fractals.
This is a classic in economics by Milton Friedman. Friedman explains the importance of economic freedom and the danger of too much government interference.
These are excellent documentaries that appear on PBS in the United States. These documentaries cover many different subjects. You can watch these documentaries online.
- International Monetary Fund
These speeches given at the Library of Congress will give you excellent information about the cutting edge of digital technology.
Ludwig von Mises was one of the great Austrian economists. This is an excellent website for information concerning the Austrian school of economics, which has had a profound effect on current free market ideas. The institute has several video and audio clips available, which will help you to understand why free markets work.
This is a famous psychology experiment, which found that children who could put off instant gratification (one marshmallow now) for a greater reward in the future (two marshmallows in fifteen minutes) were more sucessful in school and life.
Russ Roberts talks with Milton Friedman about his research and views on inflation, the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and what the future holds. 26 minutes.
This Frontline video tells the story of the new rich in Russia and the tension between the rich, the politicians and the many poor.
NPR provides many radio shows on topics of current interest. Many of these programs can be listened to through their website.
This Frontline from PBS is on the problem of the mounting US debt problem.
This video is a good introduction to economics. This is a good place to start.
Hernando de Soto and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy have put together a short film, which is designed to explain the importance of law to the development of an economy.
The WTO has numerous videos available concerning WTO related news stories, WTO rules and Trade. These videos provide you with a great way to learn about the WTO and Trade policy.