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Pensions, retirement plans and Debt, Government Budget Deficits
LIBOR, interest rates, global financial markets and scandals, manipulation
Financial Crises - balance of payments, debt and international creditors, IMF, others
Debt, Government Budget Deficits and the USA
International Financial Markets - global hubs for international finance
Financial Crises
SWIFT payments - International Financial Markets
No-limit Parent Plus loans, and the University student debt crisis in the USA
Govcoins - blockchain, currency and central banks
Debt crises and Global Economic Impact of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic
Cuba: Currency, Financial System
Dotcom internet bubble and financial crisis 2001
Government Budget Deficits and the Economic Impact (USA) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus
International reserve currencies - dollar, gold, euro, more
Housing, Real Estate and the Financial Crisis 2008
International Financial Markets - Fixing Global Finance
Fintech and Financial Services during the COVID19 Coronavirus
Argentina - inflation, economics, currency issues, financial crises and the IMF
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand global financial markets - with a focus on currencies, and global debt markets
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand financial markets
a collection of articles and resources about Student Debt, Financial Aid and Scholarships
a collection of articles about Brazil - finance and economics
a collection of articles about the EU - European Union - austerity and the debt crisis (2009-present)
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand global financial markets - with a focus on currencies, and global debt markets
A collection of articles and videos looking at Financial Markets and Manipulation
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand financial markets - bonds and yields
a collection of articles and resources about learning Economics
Recommendations of the best online courses - MOOCs - for learning Finance and Economics
a collection of articles and videos looking at the Debt Collection Industry - and the Debt crisis in the USA
Recommendations of Best movies for learning Finance and Economics

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Article

Egypt: a crisis deferred

After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out. But a record-setting investment from the UAE will not fix its chronic problems | ... (2024)


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Argentina’s upcoming election; Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right

Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)


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Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis

Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)


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What Happens if the US Defaults on its Debt?

Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)


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How to fix the IMF International Monetary Fund | The Economist

The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)


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Hunger in Brazil - An old scourge returns - The Economist

As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)


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Special drawing wrongs - Issuing special drawing rights will be a sign of failure for the IMF

Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted | Leaders (2021)


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U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression

The drop in income and sales tax revenue has created a historic crisis for states, with a total shortfall expected in the hundreds of billions of d... (2020)


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The Housing Vultures - by Francesca Mari

Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes... (2020)


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Coronavirus Will End the Golden Age for College Towns - Bloomberg Opinion

These engines of regional growth will struggle with state funding cuts, fewer foreign students and destroyed household finances. (2020)


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International banking - Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance | Special report

And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas (2020)


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“Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.” A global food crisis looms. — The New York Times

The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the... (2020)


Article

The official jobless numbers are horrifying. The real situation is even worse

The record unemployment numbers only hint at the crisis facing many with no work. (2020)


Article

Small Businesses Depend on the Stimulus Package. The Stimulus Will Depend on Fintech

The government is unprepared to identify, adjudicate, and disburse $350B of aid to small businesses without a sea of fraud. Tech is the answer. Now. (2020)


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St. Louis Fed estimates 32% unemployment, 52M out of work (March 2020) | St. Louis Fed

Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates of Next Quarter’s Unemployment Rate. Layoffs are certainly one of the effects of battling COVID-19. What sort of ... (2020)


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U.S. budget deficit to eclipse $1 trillion in 2020 as fiscal imbalance continues to widen - Washington Post

A combination of the 2017 tax cuts and a surge in new spending has pushed the deficit wider. (2020)


Article

Stripe to Offer a Corporate Card, Joining Brex and Others (2019)

Stripe Inc. is launching its own corporate credit card less than one week after the payments processing giant introduced a new lending product. (2019)


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Financial Times Argentina: how IMF’s biggest ever bailout crumbled under Macri - 2019

The decision to seek what became the biggest bailout in the IMF’s history took only a few minutes. A loss of faith in Argentina’s reform program... (2019)


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U.S. Treasury Set to Borrow $1 Trillion for a Second Year to Finance the Deficit - 2019 - Bloomberg

By Liz McCormick , Saleha Mohsin , and Alexandre Tanzi January 28, 2019, 12:00 AM EST Updated on January 28, 2019, 7:39 AM EST Auction boosts ... (2019)


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Brazil is shaping up for a unique kind of financial crisis - The Economist

RUDI DORNBUSCH, a renowned economist who died in 2002, said there were two sorts of currency crisis. The pre-1990s kind is slow. It starts with an ... (2018)


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Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis? || LongRead

The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming. (2018)


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Everything you need to know about the massive crisis brewing in India’s financial markets (2018)

In September, the Sensex has already shed over 2,000 points till now. (2018)


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Argentina Could Unravel Fast As Central Banker Jumps Ship (2018) - Forbes

If history is any guide, Argentina's economy -- and its political leadership -- could explode at any minute. (2018)


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The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis || The New Yorker

John Cassidy on the aftermath, which produced a lost decade for European economies and helped lead to the rise of anti-establishment political move... (2018)


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Crypto Trading 101: The Fibonacci Retracements - CoinDesk

CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)


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Opinion | The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined - The New York Times

New data reveals how colleges are benefiting from billions in financial aid while students are left with debt they cannot repay. (2018)


Article

Desperate Venezuelans Turn to Video Games to Survive - Bloomberg

Virtual currencies from such games as RuneScape are prized in a country whose real money is worthless. (2018)


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What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else - The Economist

ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)


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Sovereign shambles: Venezuela 2018-08-21 | The Economist

President Nicolás Maduro’s “great economic revolution” begins today when five zeros are (2018)


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Sovereign shambles: Venezuela 2018-08-21 | The Economist

President Nicolás Maduro’s “great economic revolution” begins today when five zeros are (2018)


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Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?

Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)


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France’s Pension Reforms: Why Is There So Much Opposition? | WSJ

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (2023)


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Imperfect Union: The Eurozone in Crisis - Full Episode

After WWI, Europe's leaders established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict. Now, more than half a century later, the... (2018)


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How the euro caused the Greek crisis

Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of t... (2018)


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Margin Call (movie) - Trailer

Margin Call Trailer. "You're selling something that you know has no value" ! FRESH Movie Trailers Published on Jul 26, 2011 (2018)


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Game of Theories: The Great Recession - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)


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Understanding the Great Depression - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on May 23, 2017 In this video, we examine the causes behind the Great Depression with the help of the ... (2018)


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The Great Recession - the failure of financial intermediaries - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Aug 9, 2016 There’s already been much discussion over what fueled the Great Recession of 2008. In t... (2018)


Podcast

The Sunshine Economy: Cuban Currency Unification | WLRN

After more than 25 years, Cuba is doing away with its dual currency system and getting rid of the Cuban Convertible Peso. What does the change mean... (2021)


Podcast

Lighting the Stock Market on Fire - Vox Media | Podcast

Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)


Podcast

Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)


Podcast

A match made at Bear Stearns - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)


Podcast

2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)


Podcast

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR

An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2018)


Podcast

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR

An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2017)


Book

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)


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