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How Effective are Western Sanctions with Professor Seth Benzell
As one of the worlds most televised conflict rages on in Ukraine, western countries, not directly involved, look to utilize a weapon that is forged by economists.. Sanctions...
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Why Universal Basic Income Can Help Battle Inequality With Professor Seth Benzell
In our previous episode, we talked to Dr. Seth Benzell about How the Pandemic Changed Global Labor Markets and in this episode, we talk about the work he's done to find a solution...
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How Nations Are Driving Towards Newer Battery Energy Economies
In 2020, Out of 3.4 million electric cars sold in the world, only 328K was in the US... Compared to 1.39 million in Europe and 1.33M in China...
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Inflation Is at 40 Year Highs. Why Should It Matter to You?
For over 13 years, borrowing has been relatively easy. Rates haven’t reached more than 2.5%, compared to the highs of nearly 19% in the 80’s. This means if you’re a Millennial...
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Should Tech Companies Be Paying Us for Our Data? - with Nicholas Vincent
Every minute, 990,000 Tinder profiles are swiped, 156 million emails are sent, and 16 million text messages are sent out. Moreover, Google processes...
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There Are a Record Number of Jobs. Why Is Unemployment Still So High?
As we see rich countries slowly open up, there is an interesting economic phenomenon taking place. While Americans are coming out of lockdown, we are...
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Infrastructure: How Do We Pay for It? Will It Even Work?
Sweeping infrastructure plans are in plans across the globe. Take Biden's nearly $4 trillion infrastructure package that is aimed at repairing roads...
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Infrastructure: An Opportunity to Rebuild Modern Society?
Infrastructure today cannot meet the needs of the digital economy tomorrow. 5G, driverless cars, sustainable cities, broadband access to all are some of...
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How Unemployment and Inequality Go Hand in Hand
In April of this year, at the peak of the pandemic, the unemployment rates hit a historic 14.7%, which was a post WWII high! Since then, the unemployment rate...
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How the Cannabis Industry Saw Big Change in 2020
The Cannabis Industry has been changing for a while. Years of activism and millions of dollars of investment have come and 2020 has been the year...
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Americans Are Getting Fed up With Inflation
Have you finally gone back to get a drink with a friend in an open-air bar? Have you gotten that much needed haircut? Although the Pandemic isn't...
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Taming the Tech Beasts in 2020
The Big 4 Face Congress. The United States Congress has labelled Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook as monopolies officially for the record.
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How Tech Created a Winner-Take-All Economy – with Seth Benzell
In our most recent episode, Things Have Changed had the opportunity to speak and learn from Dr. Seth Benzell, Digital Economist, Assistant Professor at...
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Navigating Regulation in the Cannabis Industry – with Stacey Hronowski
Although the political landscape has largely leaned towards more positive sentiment towards cannabis, it is still very expensive and risky to do business in...
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COVID-19 Exposes the Depth of Economic Inequality in the US
How should we think about inequality? This pandemic really exposed the extreme amount of inequality in our society. In this episode, we’re going to discuss...
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Freight Carriers Are Sailing Half Empty (feat. Martyn Verhaegen)
Demand has caved and supply chains are in distress! In today’s episode we revisit our discussion on oil going negative and have Martin Verhaegen, Founder...
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Breaking Down the $2 Trillion CARES Act
The US Economy is feeling the effects of nationwide shelter in place orders and forced store closures that are non-essential. In order to mitigate the...
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Canada's Economic Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
The Canadian government’s fiscal stimulus package now totals ~C$200 billion ($145 billion) which aims to ensure firms survive the ongoing pandemic...
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Stock Buybacks and Government Bailouts
A new coronavirus relief bill was introduced recently that includes preventing corporations from using taxpayer money for stock buybacks! Why exactly?
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Economic Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus is changing life as we know it. Here's our first episode of Blitz Talk - where we have short digestible about the current state of the economy.
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