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Why Is College SO Expensive?
💸 THE $1,000,000 QUESTION CONTEST! 💸 Think you know what's truly driving the affordability crisis? We want to hear from you. We are giving away $1 million in prizes for…
Why Housing Got SO Expensive
What has caused housing costs to skyrocket? In 1906, an earthquake and the fires that followed destroyed half of San Francisco's homes, and the city essentially shrugged it off. Forty…
Why AI Is Not Taking Your Job
Will AI be the end of work? When textile workers smashed machinery in 1811, they weren't being irrational - they were watching their world transform. Two centuries later, the same…
Is AI a Bubble?
In this video, we walk through what economists actually mean by a "bubble," why markets can misprice even genuinely valuable technologies, and what history's biggest financial booms — tulips, railroads,…
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