# Economics Explained

> Weekly breakdowns of global markets, policy, and finance

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## Posts
- [Southern Europe Is a Warning](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/southern-europe-is-a-warning): Southern Europe's wildfire bill is becoming a preview of what a lot more places are about to sign up for.
- [The Tariff Backfire](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-tariff-backfire): Tariffs were supposed to choke off cheap Chinese goods. Instead, they got rerouted and ended up lowering inflation in other countries.
- [Why Losing Venezuela Cost Cuba More Than Oil](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/why-losing-venezuela-cost-cuba-more-than-oil): Cuba's biggest export was never sugar, nickel, or cigars. It was doctors, and Venezuela was its single largest customer.
- [Why the Next Wave of Urbanisation Will Hit Your Grocery Bill](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/why-the-next-wave-of-urbanisation-will-hit-your-grocery-bill): When a person moves from a farm to a city, they stop producing food and start consuming more of it. Eight hundred million people just did that. The next billion are already on their way.
- [How China Wiped Out a $120 Billion Industry (And Made Things Worse)](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/how-china-wiped-out-a-120-billion-industry-and-made-things-worse): The government ban on the tutoring industry put 10 million people out of work, and made the problem it was trying to solve significantly worse.
- [What a Satellite Sees That Your Government Won't Tell You](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/what-a-satellite-sees-that-your-government-won-t-tell-you-9443): GDP has always been a number governments produce. Satellites are now producing a competing one. And for some countries, the two don't match.
- [The Bank of Mum and Dad](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-bank-of-mum-and-dad): Parents of Gen Z are paying $1,813 a month — more than a full-time minimum wage job. But for how long?
- [How Would Healthcare Change If Everyone Had To Pay A $1 Copayment?](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/how-would-healthcare-change-if-everyone-had-to-pay-a-1-copayment): A one-dollar copayment cuts clinic visits by nearly 10 percent. The question is who, exactly, stops going.
- [Japan's Warning To The Rest Of The World](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/japan-s-warning-to-the-rest-of-the-world): Japan's 1990s economic collapse kept a generation at home. Thirty years later, their parents are still paying for it... and other economies are building the same conditions.
- [Why Economic Data Is Almost Always Wrong](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/why-economic-data-is-almost-always-wrong): The numbers behind interest rate decisions, government budgets, and investment flows are built on shakier foundations than anyone likes to admit.
- [Is Anything Actually Getting Cheaper?](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/is-anything-actually-getting-cheaper): When oil gets expensive, it reshuffles prices across the entire economy. Some of those shifts go in a surprising direction.
- [The Primate City Problem](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-primate-city-problem): When one city concentrates all the jobs, the money, and the talent... everyone else pays the price
- [How Much Is AI Adding To Your Monthly Bill](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/how-much-is-ai-adding-to-your-monthly-bill): Behind every AI prompt is a data centre drinking from the same supply as your tap.
- [Why the US and Taiwan Are Stuck With Each Other](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/why-the-us-and-taiwan-are-stuck-with-each-other): A geological accident in the Appalachian Mountains and decades of Taiwanese investment created a dependency that no government has figured out how to undo.
- [What the Brochure Doesn't Tell You About Hawaii's Economy](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/what-the-brochure-doesn-t-tell-you-about-hawaii-s-economy): Hawaii is one of the most visited places on Earth. For the people who actually live there, that's becoming more of a problem than a solution.
- [The $58 Trillion Problem Nobody Is Talking About](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-58-trillion-problem-nobody-is-talking-about): The 2008 financial crisis shrank global GDP by 1.8%. A water crisis could deliver losses several times that size, and it doesn't have a central bank response.
- [The Businesses Selling Fake Research](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-businesses-selling-fake-research): Governments spend $2.9 trillion on R&D every year, most of it guided by published research. And turns out some of that research was never real.
- [The Middlemen Killing Your Local Pharmacy](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-middlemen-killing-your-local-pharmacy): Three companies process 80% of all US prescriptions, own their own pharmacies, and set the reimbursement rates that are putting independent pharmacies out of business.
- [Prediction Markets: Forecasting Tool or Gambling?](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/prediction-markets-forecasting-tool-or-gambling): Prediction markets argue they’re fundamentally different from sportsbooks. But are they?
- [The Unexpected Consequence of a $12 Combo Meal](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-unexpected-consequence-of-a-12-combo-meal): Fast food prices have risen twice as fast as general inflation, and that may be reshaping what Americans eat.
- [The K-Shaped Recovery, Explained](https://economics-explained-tv-program.beehiiv.com/p/the-k-shaped-recovery-explained): Employment bounced back on paper, but nearly a third of low-wage job losses came from cuts at the bottom of the pay scale.

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