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Macroeconomics & financial crises Videos Recommended on Hacker News (90)
Macroeconomics & financial crises is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 90 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 253 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Macroeconomics: inflation, interest rates, central banks, debt, recessions, financial crisis of 2008, housing bubbles, China economy, trade, currencies, monetary policy, Varoufakis.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio: “it’s the best layperson explanation of debt I’ve ever seen” — an HN commenter, 2019.
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17 mo on HNHow The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
Principles by Ray Dalio
18 HN recommender · 2014–2026
12 mo on HNHans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC
BBC
10 HN recommender · 2010–2023
11 mo on HNPrinciples for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
Principles by Ray Dalio
10 HN recommender · 2022–2025
10 mo on HNFear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!
Radical Discourse
10 HN recommender · 2010–2024
10 mo on HNWhy American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]
Not Just Bikes
14 HN recommender · 2021–2024
8 mo on HNThe Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
Independent POV
6 HN recommender · 2019–2024
7 mo on HNThe Truth about American Cities - Part 1 - Strong Towns [ST01]
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
5 mo on HNThe best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
TED
5 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HNJancovici : Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time ? 08/01/2018
Jean-Marc Jancovici
6 HN recommender · 2019–2023
6 mo on HNWhere in the world is it easiest to get rich? | Harald Eia | TEDxOslo
TEDx Talks
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNMargin Call (2011) - Senior Partners Emergency Meeting [HD 1080p] (Re-Upload / Audio Fixed)
Extractor
5 HN recommender · 2018–2024
5 mo on HNHow Bankrupt American Cities Stay Alive - Debt [ST04]
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
5 mo on HNEngland: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - Part 1
Extra History
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNFight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek - Economics Rap Battle Round Two
Radical Discourse
5 HN recommender · 2011–2024
4 mo on HNSes 1: Introduction and Course Overview
MIT OpenCourseWare
5 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNMargin Call (9/9) Movie CLIP - It's Just Money (2011) HD
Movieclips
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism
Royal Society of Arts
4 HN recommender · 2011–2016
3 mo on HNMoney as Debt I - Revised Edition 2009 (Full Movie)
Ethaniel RockX
4 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNMoney as Debt - Full Documentary
Free Your Mind
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNMilton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation (B1230) - Full Video
Free To Choose Network
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNJancovici : Will technology save us from Climate Change ? MIT Media Lab - 23/02/2021
Jean-Marc Jancovici
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die
Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNCharlie Rose: Sir James Goldsmith Interview - 15.11.94
Sir James Goldsmith
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNBlack Wednesday (BBC 1997)
batrachious
3 HN recommender · 2014–2019
3 mo on HNYanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
SkriptaTV
3 HN recommender · 2015–2015
3 mo on HNPrinces of the Yen | The Hidden Power of Central Banks
Independent POV
4 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNYanis Varoufakis with Professor Noam Chomsky at NYPL, April 16, 2016 | DiEM25
DiEM25
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNRobert F. Kennedy challenges Gross Domestic Product
ipyramid
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020
2 mo on HNMark Blyth - A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why
McMaster Humanities
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNDeath to Pennies
CGP Grey
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HNWhat Eating the Rich Did For Japan
Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNMoney creation in the modern economy - Quarterly Bulletin
Bank of England
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
2 mo on HN1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
MIT OpenCourseWare
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNInside Job (2010 Full Documentary Movie)
Aditya Shukla
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNNoam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
Santarchy
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020
2 mo on HNWhy Are Birthrates Plummeting Worldwide?
Patrick Boyle
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026