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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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2 mo on HNFree To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market - Full Video
Free To Choose Network
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNSaifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNHow the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
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 HNThe Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film
Financial Times
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
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 HNFour Horsemen - Feature Documentary - Official Version
Renegade Inc.
2 HN recommender · 2013–2018
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 HNHow The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes | Economics Explained
Economics Explained
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNQuantitative Easing Explained
malekanoms
2 HN recommender · 2011–2018
2 mo on HNYanis Varoufakis exposes Europe's energy scam
DiEM25
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNInside Job (2010 Full Documentary Movie)
Aditya Shukla
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNSOUTH KOREA IS OVER
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNNoam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
Santarchy
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020
2 mo on HNAre NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?
ADVChina
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNWhy Are Birthrates Plummeting Worldwide?
Patrick Boyle
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNPeter Schiff Mortgage Bankers Speech Nov/13/06
Peter Schiff
2 HN recommender · 2009–2013
2 mo on HNFinal Warning Limits to Growth
biopilz
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
2 mo on HNBird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
kerviel88888
2 HN recommender · 2008–2018
2 mo on HNDemographic Collapse — China's Reckoning (Part 1)
PolyMatter
2 HN recommender · 2021–2021
2 mo on HNDavid Mitchell on Tax Avoidance from The Last Leg
Political News
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
1 mo on HNRobert Kennedy on GDP
Wimble Don
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNHow Suburban Development Makes American Cities Poorer [ST02]
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNPeter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
1 HN recommend · 2012–2012
1 mo on HNThis Ponzi Scheme Might END Suburban Prosperity
Strong Towns
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HNMargin Call Best Quote by Will Emerson
chrislaucn
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNPresident Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
Reagan Library
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNChina vs EU on debt conditions
Geshan Dissanayake
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNGHOST CITY - Inside the Chinese Housing Bubble
ADVChina
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNHow to rob a bank (from the inside, that is) | William Black
TED
1 HN recommend · 2015–2023
1 mo on HNCryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control
aantonop
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HNAusterity: The History of a Dangerous Idea | Mark Blyth | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HNThe Big Short (2015) - FrontPoint Partners' investigation in Florida & first trade [HD 1080p]
Extractor
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNI.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version
IOUSAtheMovie
1 HN recommend · 2009–2016