The Monolithic Economy of The U.S.A

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The United States of America, the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the planet by a very respectable margin. The sheer scale of the united states wealth and influence is really really hard to fathom, even for macro-economists, sure there are GDP figures, trade balances and labor force figures, but they are best for telling the story of a normal national economy, and the United States are far from that, its consumer retail sector is bigger than all but 9 of the largest national economies in the world, California, one of its states has a bigger GDP figure than the united kingdom and the US has fifty states.
The U.S. economy goes beyond this though, it is the foundation for the world economy in the 20th and 21st centuries, and this influence isn’t caused by something so old fashioned as an empire, but rather industry. Today US companies can be seen dominating industries in economies all over the world, and at the same time, foreign companies from Europe and Asia fight endlessly to break into the US market, the largest and most influential consumer market in the world.
The U.S. economy is too large with too many facets to explore in a single video, so this will be made as a video series but for now, in this video, I want to explore how the United States of America got to where it is today.
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Sources & Citations -
McCusker, J.J., and Menard, R.R., 2014. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Katz, S.N., 1976. Thomas Jefferson and the right to property in revolutionary America. The Journal of Law and Economics, 19
Teich, M., Porter, R. and Gustafsson, B. eds., 1996. The industrial revolution in national context: Europe and the USA. Cambridge University Press.
Taylor, L., Proano, C.R., de Carvalho, L. and Barbosa, N., 2012. Fiscal deficits, economic growth and government debt in the USA. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 36(1), pp.189-204.
Morriss, A.P. and Nard, C.A., 2011. Institutional Choice & Interest Groups in the Development of American Patent Law: 1790-1865. Supreme Court Economic Review
De Haan, J. and Siermann, C.L., 1996. New evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic growth. Public Choice, 86
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  • @EconomicsExplained
    @EconomicsExplained4 жыл бұрын

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  • @thelegend3841

    @thelegend3841

    3 жыл бұрын

    You missed slave labor.

  • @nobilesnovushomo58

    @nobilesnovushomo58

    3 жыл бұрын

    Originally Presidents could run without end to terms, it was after FDR that term limitations on the US president were enacted. Not trying to be angry or oppositional "The US consumer market was due to wealth rather than what created it," Private industry of Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, etc., are what built Gilded Age New York, the Woolworths Building was built by a nickel and dime chain that proliferated the trend that made it desirable rather than rude for someone to look through wares and buy nothing, in the hopes that you would tell others, or come back when you wanted to buy the specific wares offered. Even when the federal government was given the rights by Samuel B. Morse (the first telegraph designed for communication of messages rather than nuanced rail-signals or others... at least I believe) for the Telegraph, they actually lost revenue monthly. During 1845 expenditures exceeded six expenditure to one profit yield on the sole mechanism closest to instantaneous communication with numerous commercialistic applications, until congress turned the government telegraph company over to to private enterprise in which it finally gained money. The US had a national plan to attempt to build a functional plane under Theodore Roosevelt that flopped at a time when the Wright Brothers succeeded, and Burgess gained the rights to produce them, followed by other companies, Curtiss, Boeing (at the time Pacific Aero Products Co.). US Space Race was forcing technological progression in an industry with few commercial industries that had interest in the industry able to spend the amount of capital needed to succeed for the militaristic and defensive applications, today the equivalent amount of the US economy would be more than the US spends on the entirety of it's roads and Education system (which is ranked among the top first world nations in per pupil spending), however is only being made affordable thanks to SpaceX, a private space industry that may very well in the future become like the Boeing of space, supplying commercial spacecraft and government military spacecraft. Every industry in the US was built by private industry which only small percentages of which, usually already established in similar industries to the ones desired, were contracted or every government project funded through bonds and taxes which came from the livelihoods of perhaps more than 1 million business owners in a country of 50-100 million people... if not more. Everything in the US government was built by private industry, usually after it became successful. US was built on business.

  • @Rays_Bad_Decisions

    @Rays_Bad_Decisions

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should learn about the American economic system and isolationism

  • @social3ngin33rin

    @social3ngin33rin

    3 жыл бұрын

    "job-related injuries" lololol

  • @CreedofDarkness

    @CreedofDarkness

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey, EE, just wanted to reach out and correct something. Supreme Leader Washington did not set up a term limit system. This was an amendment added on later, and there have been numerous Prime Dictators who have had 3 or even more terms as Grand Chancellor.

  • @tylerthelen485
    @tylerthelen4854 жыл бұрын

    Well, Washington didn't set a 2 term limit. It was just tradition to follow in his footsteps and just do 2. This is how FDR got 4 terms as president. Nowadays, however, it is law.

  • @re_stricted

    @re_stricted

    4 жыл бұрын

    was just about to comment this

  • @ColonizerChan

    @ColonizerChan

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @tysoncolette3176

    @tysoncolette3176

    4 жыл бұрын

    He did make it a tradition though, which is a set up of sorts, but yeah, not super clear in the video

  • @LaFacedera

    @LaFacedera

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice profile picture and nice name bro

  • @keletsoa.botsalano4531

    @keletsoa.botsalano4531

    4 жыл бұрын

    And FDR would've won all the next elections as well if it wasn't for 2 term limit :P

  • @Kevin-cm5kc
    @Kevin-cm5kc4 жыл бұрын

    Can I add an important observation regarding stability? America is also geographically really protected from, well, everyone. During major conflicts like the world wars every major power was close enough to every other major power that they'd all take a beating in the war. Except for America. So while the rest of the world needs to keep rebuilding itself after conflict with neighbouring rival powers, America is lucky enough to dip into wars when and where it suits them. Or stay out of it if they so choose. It's got to make a pretty major difference to your economy if you're safe and sound everytime other economies are decimated and spending generations rebuilding the bombed out ruins of their former homes. Case in point: there hasn't been a war between major powers for about 70 years and so the countries that were devasted by war are recovering and catching up to America and diluting their influence.

  • @8kajetan

    @8kajetan

    4 жыл бұрын

    Another issue i find is that he mentions that USA has a wealth of resources, but that it isn't really that much of a factor and that it isn't that different compared to other countries such as Canada and Russia EXCEPT it really is quite lucky. Russia as you pointed out was in a constant struggle to survive being in Europe where most of the major world powers existed for a long time and having most of its important cities being on a geographically flat plain means constant worry of invasion and this fear really doesn't help the exploration of natural resources. Furthermore Russia is not a very hospitable place, much of its resources are located in the cold and untamed tundra which to this day has very few settlements in it, Canada faces the same issue the majority of its country is tundra and not easily exploitable . Now lets compare that to america where there is a wealth of plains, mountains and even deserts, and all of it uncontested by other world powers. Now saying that isn't an important factor for why the economy had developed so well is not looking at the full picture.

  • @wheneggsdrop1701

    @wheneggsdrop1701

    4 жыл бұрын

    There has been a war between the USSR,USA,Egypt vs UK,France. Called the suez crisis.

  • @joshuahibbs4639

    @joshuahibbs4639

    4 жыл бұрын

    I feel like alot of missed facts and history in this video is forcing me to comment such as George Washington only allowed 2 terms of president when in reality that was just what most people served even if the law allows technically unlimited terms as FDR proved you can continuously get elected it took his death and a new law to prevent such a thing from happening again. He also didn't point things out such as the rich natural resources and actually the best farming land in the world with the best river systems in the world makes it the most productive farmland on the planet. Turns out it's very hard to get things from point A to point B but if you can float your goods not only can you carry about 13-15x more tonnage compared to on land but it's faster and cheaper and can be shipped to foreign markets directly. Honestly if you want a better version of this video I suggest watching Peter Zeihan's lecturers on either geography or "Millennial consumption" powering Trump's economy and foreign policy. Peter not only explains why United States is condemned to being a world superpower but also why America with new energy independence because of the shale revolution can go back to being a isolation type country.

  • @nunyabidness3075

    @nunyabidness3075

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jordan Samaniego I detect moral preening here. Please educate us on the track record of pointless wars and also compare it to other countries in similar relative power situations historically. Please feel free to add if you have any sort of recognized credentials that add weight to your opinion. Or, feel free to admit you were just hating on the US and being anti war because you think those are good things to do.

  • @nunyabidness3075

    @nunyabidness3075

    4 жыл бұрын

    jim bob, an excellent point. What seems unique is how the USA has strongly curbed its empire building ambitions while simultaneously footing the not so cheap bill of being the world’s police force.

  • @AJearth
    @AJearth4 жыл бұрын

    Did you really call Washington "god emperor" lol.

  • @arvidbratt5156

    @arvidbratt5156

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boxcarcifer wat

  • @kekw245

    @kekw245

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think he's making a funny reference to the God Emperor Trump meme.

  • @johnhoo6707

    @johnhoo6707

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Boxcarcifer I think you just described the British empire, which ended up being a pale shadow compared to America's vast wealth.

  • @piyushvaidya5086

    @piyushvaidya5086

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Boxcarcifer go back to school ninja

  • @KrishnaAdettiwar

    @KrishnaAdettiwar

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boxcarcifer you might’ve just redefined the meaning of dumbass lmao

  • @lukeland6741
    @lukeland67414 жыл бұрын

    "America Didn't Do Colonization" Me, a Filipino: **Intense Sweating**

  • @paxshmitz2665

    @paxshmitz2665

    4 жыл бұрын

    Liberated* as we do with the middle-eastern oil.

  • @french_2049

    @french_2049

    4 жыл бұрын

    Atleast we went the Belgians my friend

  • @jackbharucha1475

    @jackbharucha1475

    4 жыл бұрын

    That was not colonization. That was Freedomization and don't you forget it, citizen.

  • @OolTube02

    @OolTube02

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can also say the US expansion to the West Coast was colonial. But unlike the Brits the Americans had their colonies in their own back yard, eventually made them states, and they didn't present the logistical nightmare that an empire you needed a huge fleet to keep together did.

  • @koonkoon01

    @koonkoon01

    4 жыл бұрын

    @oang245 h you need English lessons

  • @twinkiesmaster69
    @twinkiesmaster694 жыл бұрын

    "Fair trail and AR-15" sounds right

  • @ColonizerChan

    @ColonizerChan

    4 жыл бұрын

    IDidntKnowTheyAllowed ANameThisLongForAttention *siiiiiiip* That space magic gun will jam on ya fast there sonny. Get yerself a garand like my pappy had used.

  • @jooky87

    @jooky87

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trial not trail.

  • @garrettallen7427

    @garrettallen7427

    4 жыл бұрын

    jooky87 a fair trail is important to the American way, what are you talking about? Ever heard of the Oregon Trail?

  • @davidrapalyea7727

    @davidrapalyea7727

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I got a kick out of free speech and an AR-15! My concealed carry permit has expired but I have a Kahr P380, Keltec P3AT, NAA Black Widow Revolver and my favorite the Keltec P32. That little .32 has never had a malfunction and is smaller then my wallet.

  • @lotmyle5465

    @lotmyle5465

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@davidrapalyea7727 The NSA already knows your location.

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk63244 жыл бұрын

    Has *anyone* noticed the music playing is: 'merica f*ck yeah! - I think EE was trying to redeem himself *after* he gave Alaska to Canada !

  • @RockSmithStudio

    @RockSmithStudio

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you bringing this up 😂

  • @thedoruk6324

    @thedoruk6324

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RockSmithStudio It is a prime meme 👍

  • @mattbowdenuh

    @mattbowdenuh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Obviously the Russians sold their Alaskan colony to the British in order to keep it out of the hands of the Americans. Later it became part of Canada and is today a semi-autonomous province like Quebec with its heavy Russian speaking population... oh, wait

  • @appa609

    @appa609

    4 жыл бұрын

    He gave Alberta to America

  • @mattbowdenuh

    @mattbowdenuh

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@appa609 Someone's been watching Peter Zeihan

  • @Robot_247
    @Robot_2474 жыл бұрын

    “Most countries today still get democracy wrong.” We still have democracy wrong lol. In Athens there was a reason they did not like people who tried to stay in the Council for too long. Here we are though... You go ahead and sit in there Senator/Rep long enough to forget what a normal life is like as you pass judgement from a completely detached position of reality

  • @jonomoth2581

    @jonomoth2581

    3 жыл бұрын

    A good democratic leader should see themselves as a manager with millions of bosses

  • @Nuvendil

    @Nuvendil

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, originally being a Congressman wasn't a full time job and didn't even pay a full salary. So it wasn't anticipated that you would have a class of politics-made millionaires living in DC.

  • @Robot_247

    @Robot_247

    2 жыл бұрын

    I never knew that thank you for enlightening me

  • @beausheffield1895

    @beausheffield1895

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Nuvendil they still don’t make their money that way. Most politicians make money as lobbyists or writers.

  • @Nuvendil

    @Nuvendil

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beausheffield1895 not all their money no, but it is a six figure gig. And all that other stuff comes along with greatly expanding the power of the State. The more power there is in Congress, the m ore money will be spent to manipulate it.

  • @Patriciacraig599
    @Patriciacraig599 Жыл бұрын

    In this perilous time of recession, protecting your capital is much more important than making money. Basically because if you lose your capital, making money is much harder. ''Missing the train'' vs. ''losing your money''. There are a lot of trains, but if your money is gone, it's over. This is for stock holders.

  • @Robertgriffinne

    @Robertgriffinne

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, most people don't get this, the majority is after chasing tops/bottoms where they fail & get out of the game.

  • @instinctively_awesome8283

    @instinctively_awesome8283

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly the opposite. When things are bad and people are afraid, like you, you buy. When people are making money and getting greedy, you sell

  • @williamchamberlain2263
    @williamchamberlain22634 жыл бұрын

    Also geographic isolation, far greater accessible resources than population, access to 4 continents, easy access to established markets/trade on 2 continents which _don't_ have easy access to each other.

  • @chottochotto7112

    @chottochotto7112

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is neither access nor resources by itself - the concerned humans convert useless into useful. Case in point - Venezuela. Stop trying to give away American success to bare nature alone.

  • @mattbowdenuh

    @mattbowdenuh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget navigable waterways. Easier and cheaper to put things on a boat and float it through the Great Lakes or Mississippi.

  • @toffeesky6227

    @toffeesky6227

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chottochotto7112 there's absolutely nothing special about the average american, vs the average citizen of any other nation. The USAs success is mainly from its extremely favourable geography and access to resources

  • @strafniki1080

    @strafniki1080

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chottochotto7112 stop stealing oil then

  • @blackbirght
    @blackbirght4 жыл бұрын

    Idea for a future video: What does EU need in order to become United States of Europe and rival the USA economy.

  • @scroogietw6878

    @scroogietw6878

    4 жыл бұрын

    This would be very interesting

  • @Mira_linn

    @Mira_linn

    4 жыл бұрын

    i mean the EU's economy is pritty mutch the 2 largest ecenomy as it is. used to be the biggest some years ago. however it is quite influential as it can dictate trading standarts and rules as is. however what the EU need to do to once agein become the biggest economy is mostl likely to use her soft powers to improve her southern regions with knowhow on tax systems and a massive development fond, if the southern regions chould evolve into the same power of their economies as france you whould come a long way.

  • @peterdisabella2156

    @peterdisabella2156

    4 жыл бұрын

    @John King Your perspective is a bit cynical. Sure resources and cheap labor were a big help getting the US up and running but the system that was established had a large impact on the prosperity of the nation. Particularly, the early adoption of public education and the early investments made in secondary education which made the US workforce one of the most skilled for years.

  • @correctionguy7632

    @correctionguy7632

    4 жыл бұрын

    That idea is disgusting please stop

  • @daayemshehzad

    @daayemshehzad

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @NapoleonB
    @NapoleonB3 жыл бұрын

    It's really weird to see a fair, unbiased perspective about my country's economics. Usually the talking heads at CNN and FOX News scream apocalyptic messages all day long that you start believing America is going down the drain. It's nice to see an overview of how far America has come, and why it's such a dominant economic force in the world. Thank you for this video! I really hope more Americans can watch this video.

  • @BigBoss-sm9xj

    @BigBoss-sm9xj

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @DivinesLegacy

    @DivinesLegacy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why do you guys talk about good things? If we talk about every bad aspect of the US we are more likely to fix it.

  • @crystalcat1002

    @crystalcat1002

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DivinesLegacy Well of course criticizing America's system is the only way to fix it, and that's something these people recognize. But all of the negativity sometimes can be too much for people, and they want to look at the positives to make themselves happier.

  • @iamasteriix

    @iamasteriix

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fair? Unbiased? Nah, I think you mean overly optimistic and uncritical

  • @prasanth2601

    @prasanth2601

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, people often underestimate the power of US and it's shear military and economic strength

  • @SheetMusicBoss
    @SheetMusicBoss4 жыл бұрын

    Hey! I'm a fan of your channel and watch your videos often. I noticed you used our Team America piano arrangement at the very beginning but didn't provide a link in the description to our video or credit us. If you could please add a link and credit, that'd be appreciated. Thanks! -Andrew

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi mate, huge fan of your videos aswell and oh yes this was a huge oversight on my behalf I absolutely will add this as soon as I get home today!!

  • @SheetMusicBoss

    @SheetMusicBoss

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mate! Glad you like our vids. :D Keep up the good work. I enjoy your channel :)

  • @vvvvend3632

    @vvvvend3632

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a huge fan, wouldn't expect to see you here lol

  • @reitheinsolvable7380

    @reitheinsolvable7380

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is wholesome

  • @royy9

    @royy9

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@reitheinsolvable7380 not really

  • @brianmo7763
    @brianmo77634 жыл бұрын

    I have a great respect and admiration towards the USA and it's people (not always their government) in spite the love-hate relationship it has always been involved in with my country, Mexico.

  • @EpsilonIndustries

    @EpsilonIndustries

    Жыл бұрын

    American here, despite what some of our politicians say we're blessed to have you as our southern neighbor. Here's to a brighter future

  • @everburningblue
    @everburningblue4 жыл бұрын

    "The first successful transition of a democratically-elected government ever." Rome: "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wasn’t very successful was it?

  • @everburningblue

    @everburningblue

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained was it not successful at least once?

  • @valentinli332

    @valentinli332

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rome was successful with democracy for a while. Until corruption, environmental calamity, foreign invasions, plague, etcetera broke it down.

  • @ELPCPU

    @ELPCPU

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained Considering Roman Democracy duration is roughly 500 years, i call it that was successful democracy. Of course, at the end of Roman Republic, there were a plenty of corruption, misuse of rules, etc. Their landlord caused fundamental problems in Roman economy, which eventually lead to Roman Empire. And Empire lasted even longer than 500 years, but it went same process at the end. Every nation has rise and fall. Note 500 year period is longer than most dynasties in World history. Just Roman Republic falls at the end does not make it unsuccessful. Who knows after 250 years, U.S. will fall due to corruption? If U.S. falls within 250 years from now, are you going to say it was not successful? After 250 years, age of USA becomes roughly same to that of Roman Republic.

  • @tylerdurden3722

    @tylerdurden3722

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@valentinli332 Gaius Marius broke Rome. And his nephew, Julius Caesar, took it upon himself to "fix it". The passing on of power was relatively stable since they had two consuls, and one could only hold office for a year, every 10 years. Gaius' military reforms, transformed the army from landowners as seasonal soldiers, to a professional army made up of mostly plebs. Soldiers were rewarded land after retiring. This and their pay was secured by their commander. In fact, these armies were sometimes raised at personal expense. They were more like personal mercenaries. So the loyalty of soldiers shifted from the state, to their commander. Consuls commanded the biggest armies. Thus, from then, personal rivalries were settled with armies.

  • @YusufNasihi
    @YusufNasihi4 жыл бұрын

    The US is on easy mode.

  • @decmod4644

    @decmod4644

    4 жыл бұрын

    RIP

  • @CraigVanderGalien

    @CraigVanderGalien

    4 жыл бұрын

    RIP

  • @FormerPessitheRobberfan

    @FormerPessitheRobberfan

    4 жыл бұрын

    The USA made easy mode.

  • @zagreus1249

    @zagreus1249

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rip

  • @patrickblanchette4337

    @patrickblanchette4337

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yusuf Nasihi And as an American.... I’m a-okay with that.😊

  • @tcironbear21
    @tcironbear214 жыл бұрын

    DUDE!!! You are WAAAAAY over dismissing the importance of geography and the starting sources of wealth in the United States. US has the most arable land in the world, the largest internally navigable river system in the world, a huge massive coast, a LOT of natural harbors, and so much of it is free of tropical diseases. Any nation built here was always going to be wealthier than its political doppelganger in the Central Asia in the long run. And the look at is starting sources of wealth!!! Farming! Fishing! Lumber! Etc. Most of these are all industries that spread wealth evenly and promote a large, healthy middle class. Do really the USA would not be like Latin America if there had been Cerro Rico in Massachusetts or Moluccus in Maryland? I am not saying what you said was not true, but the omission of these points paints you as someone who has only been educated in explanations for wealth put forward by neoliberalism. There are more reasons for disparity in wealth in nations other than democracy and patent law.

  • @joesterling4299

    @joesterling4299

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was a happy confluence of many factors that made it possible. A huge one is the moral, psychological and cultural nature of the people in power during the country's formative years and expansion. Don't tell me that South America and Africa don't have vast resources. They just didn't get the correct mix of people to develop them at their full potential. This is just the first video in a series. Save criticisms on what he missed till the end.

  • @tcironbear21

    @tcironbear21

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joesterling4299 This is the part that covers the foundational causes of American wealth. Geography and sources of wealth is a foundational cause of America's wealth. His overall thesis is going to look very sloppy if he mentions the impact of geography in the middle of the discussion on the the policy choices that promoted industrialization. And I did not argue that South America and Africa did not have vast resources. I argue that they have the wrong ones for a successful democracy. Like for example. In New England in the 1700s the only sources of wealth were fur trapping, lumbering, fishing, and farming. All those forms of wealth were best be procured by individuals, small families, and small teams. That resulted in a society in which wealth was very spread out. A low degree of wealth inequality makes for successful democracies. Additionally it makes for leaders that need to listen. If your government's only source of income was largely voluntary contributions and taxes, you do what your community asks. Meanwhile at the same time. in Haiti the literal back breaking work of sugar production could be be done by dying slaves imported from Africa, and in Latin America the highly hazardous work of mining for gold and silver could be done by conscripting corvee labor from the natives and working them to death in the mines. These areas were actually had MUCH more wealth than the US, but it was much more easy for an elite to use military force to procure the wealth there. The end result was a society use to large oppressed underclass and small elite with the training and resources to keep on oppressing them. If you want a good video on why the US is rich, this one will do a better job of explaining it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2FouJWBgpmfZs4.html

  • @DeLunny

    @DeLunny

    4 жыл бұрын

    The importance of geography when talking about the US economy can't be overstated imo. Huge Pacific and Atlantic coastlines with warm weather ports, tons of natural resources of every kind, huge space for farming etc. etc. The US has undoubtedly the best geography of any country in the world, by a long way. If you were to pick any country's land to start your own nation you'd pick the USA. To say "other country's have resources" etc. massively downplays it.

  • @tcironbear21

    @tcironbear21

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DeLunny 100% agree, but don't underestimate the impact the starting kinds of wealth. If this country had been settled from west to east or south to north, it probably would be at least a few notches less democratic. The mineral wealth of the west and the cash crops of the south would have made for less robust democracy and educated population.

  • @DeLunny

    @DeLunny

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tcironbear21 Interesting, I've never even thought about that

  • @alexryu8467
    @alexryu84674 жыл бұрын

    Man you are cranking out these videos! Each one so informative and entertaining!

  • @TrangleC
    @TrangleC4 жыл бұрын

    Will the Petro-Dollar-Cycle get its own episode, or will it at least be prominently mentioned in the next video?

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    It will be one of the core focuses of a video in this series.

  • @TrangleC

    @TrangleC

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained Ah, good. Thanks. It is shocking how many people never heard of it, even though it is probably one of the most important and world shaping economic mechanisms in existence and a huge part of the foundation the US and the world economy are built on. Especially when the Trump administration was new and there was all this talk about tariffs and how the USA is importing too much stuff, it would have been useful for more people to be aware of the Petro-Dollar-Cycle and what it actually does.

  • @robertwright4906

    @robertwright4906

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boxcarcifer Slaves contributed little to the growth of the country. In fact, slave states fell behind. The real power and wealth of the US, the industrials north, had absolutely no reliance on slavery and in fact fought a major war to get rid of it out of altruism. America was built by Americans.

  • @patrickhenry4874

    @patrickhenry4874

    4 жыл бұрын

    Okay chill there buddy we did kinda do a whole war to outlaw the practice and before America was even a country it was a bunch of colonies and it was Britain and other European countries who imported slaves to work on sugar can fields and other slave work and pretty much every other country before America has done slavery so y oh can’t say they’re evil for that but the fact that we went from a country with slavery to one of the most free countries in the world and the fact that we went to war to protect other countries freedom and liberties like South Korea and Germany from giants like the USSR and China kinda makes America a pretty cool place

  • @gaston6800

    @gaston6800

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@patrickhenry4874 America is also the country that is dominated by the Military Industrial Complex and the CIA who want endless war and to topple governments to put in puppets. Pretty cool place my ass.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte71984 жыл бұрын

    I drink every time you say England, rather than the United Kingdom, let alone Great Britain.

  • @leeoswald668

    @leeoswald668

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh, that time was no Great Britain, yeah???

  • @absolutetruth568

    @absolutetruth568

    4 жыл бұрын

    Napoleon I Bonaparte Hardcore Absolute Fact: USA economy is NOT ready to open up! Until ALL Americans have access to PPE ( gloves 🧤 masks 😷 and hand 🖐 sanitizers 24/7/365 year ) in all public places and inside all congested work places, IT is pure suicide to reopen the already fake monetary system / fake non livable wage economy !!!!! Hardcore Absolute Fact: USA economy is NOT ready to open up! Until ALL Americans have access to PPE ( gloves 🧤 masks 😷 and hand 🖐 sanitizers 24/7/365 year ) in all public places and inside all congested work places, IT is pure suicide to reopen the already fake monetary system / fake non livable wage economy !!!!! Hardcore Absolute Fact: USA economy is NOT ready to open up! Until ALL Americans have access to PPE ( gloves 🧤 masks 😷 and hand 🖐 sanitizers 24/7/365 year ) in all public places and inside all congested work places, IT is pure suicide to reopen the already fake monetary system / fake non livable wage economy !!!!!

  • @appleslover

    @appleslover

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shut up frenchie

  • @dallyh.2960

    @dallyh.2960

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@absolutetruth568 shut up bot

  • @dumdumbrown4225
    @dumdumbrown42254 жыл бұрын

    Great video - looking forward to part 2!

  • @bozo6847
    @bozo68474 жыл бұрын

    Seeing a UK video would be great, thx.

  • @samhirst2830

    @samhirst2830

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Anurag Chakraborty A bigger economy doesn't mean better standards of living. California has 47% of the U.S. homeless population, 1/5 struggle to afford basic necessities, it has the highest poverty rate in the state of the union. The UK economy is far from perfect but we have nothing like that here. We also rank higher than California on the Human Development Index which is the biggest indicator for quality of life. fee.org/articles/california-has-the-highest-poverty-rate-in-america-why/ moneyandmarkets.com/white-house-report-homeless-california-housing-crisis/ calbudgetcenter.org/resources/new-census-figures-show-1-5-californians-struggle-get/

  • @jamesodell3064
    @jamesodell30643 жыл бұрын

    I would include the financial system set up by Alexander Hamilton shorty after the founding of our country. We were blessed with outstanding leadership in the early years of the United States. People who sought a better future for our county and were not in it for themselves.

  • @TylerTraumavideos
    @TylerTraumavideos4 жыл бұрын

    genuinely love the content. good health and best of luck!

  • @poopingbeaver
    @poopingbeaver2 жыл бұрын

    What a delightful set of understatements: 3:55 'politely asked to leave office', 4:45 'job related injuries' , 9:19 'export' 😏

  • @Mr.Nichan
    @Mr.Nichan3 жыл бұрын

    Even if wealth isn't the primary motivator for people to create, lack of wealth is often the primary motivator for people to not create and spend their time on something more likely to make money.

  • @B10401

    @B10401

    2 жыл бұрын

    Disagree. Lack of wealth leads to hard work and invention. In a society where the least likely to work hard and innovate are already sorted into the lower class, I could see why you perceive the opposite.

  • @afriendofafriend5766
    @afriendofafriend57664 жыл бұрын

    If stability is good for an economy, then how good must the economy of Brave New World be?

  • @zxvadcsfbh

    @zxvadcsfbh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oooh yes pleasw

  • @e7venjedi

    @e7venjedi

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a good idea for a future video :-)

  • @Kaiser_Polaris

    @Kaiser_Polaris

    2 ай бұрын

    100/10

  • @DecemberNames
    @DecemberNames Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for another great video mate. I enjoyed every second. Please keep it coming.

  • @jameswalker7899
    @jameswalker78992 ай бұрын

    A very nice podcast. Warmest compliments. Thank you, sir. :)

  • @juselara02
    @juselara023 жыл бұрын

    I love the book" Why nations fail?". They have a very interesting theory about the wealth of nations and the disparity between countries. Spoiler alert: It is all politics and political institutions.

  • @saadalameri

    @saadalameri

    2 жыл бұрын

    He states that it depends on inclusive institutions independent of political system

  • @lajya01
    @lajya012 жыл бұрын

    The US has always the place of choice for immigrants coming from countries with few opportunities and high oppression. Being able to attract the best elements in the world is priceless for growth and innovation.

  • @antoniochiodi4183

    @antoniochiodi4183

    2 жыл бұрын

    “Best elements of the world” is an overstatement

  • @markyuto6820

    @markyuto6820

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@antoniochiodi4183 Your brain is an overstatement.

  • @markyuto6820

    @markyuto6820

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's one of the reasons.

  • @Ember-Rodriguez
    @Ember-Rodriguez4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this!

  • @stevenjohnston7809
    @stevenjohnston7809 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome thanks for the video.

  • @richadoemilia958
    @richadoemilia9583 жыл бұрын

    The government isn't paying the retired enough due to the present situation affecting the economy... I think the best way to earn a living is engaging one self in an online investment.

  • @morriselizabeth1484

    @morriselizabeth1484

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a retired nurse for months now and I'm yet to figure out a plan while staying at home, talking about bitcoin I think that should be a great idea.

  • @ericmorris4876

    @ericmorris4876

    3 жыл бұрын

    Investing in assets is the code for having a successful financial life, investing with the right company or software would free you from modern financial slavery.

  • @NicloasSmith

    @NicloasSmith

    3 жыл бұрын

    bitcoin is at 56k currently now, I believe it will raise up before the end of the month.

  • @waynebradley4444

    @waynebradley4444

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ericmorris4876 and that's why 80% of millionaires today are investors.

  • @dimitrinatasha664

    @dimitrinatasha664

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would want to invest in bitcoin but it's difficult to understand the market.

  • @spaceboi231
    @spaceboi2314 жыл бұрын

    5:32 That image is the cover of my copy of Capital: Volume One

  • @hr2079
    @hr20794 жыл бұрын

    Good work dude !

  • @subhammallik7816
    @subhammallik78164 жыл бұрын

    Very informative

  • @josephhesse2634
    @josephhesse26343 жыл бұрын

    Man, I love these vids

  • @davidthouvenin5839
    @davidthouvenin58394 жыл бұрын

    This is a very informative. I am very pleased to see something American that informs, without an agenda, or Political slant.

  • @ascaron007
    @ascaron0074 жыл бұрын

    Great channel! I watch every video! Greetings, Tim from Germany!

  • @jonathansanchez8802
    @jonathansanchez88024 жыл бұрын

    Great videos.

  • @BoraCM
    @BoraCM4 жыл бұрын

    3:25. The UK has had continuous parliamentary democratic elections since 1660. Edit: And there were parliaments assembled before that, with the Convention Parliament being the first to have no allegiance to the king, the first 'free' parliament. Another general election was held the next year as well, in 1661. There weren't political parties involved in the elections until 1685, however, both with roots back to the 'Roundheads' and 'Cavaliers' of the Civil War. The last time the country was ruled personally by the monarch ended in 1640, when the 'Short Parliament' assembled. Ever since then, the country has been continuously been run by parliament. The Long Parliament, which lasted for about 20 years until 1660, which faced almost dissolution by the New Model Army, eventually voted for its own dissolution in 1660, when elections were held across the nation for it to assemble. I am sorry if I have 'glossed' over some points of it seems rushed, because I am busy at the moment and have borrowed my mother's laptop, which has an incredibly inconvenient keyboard with a caps lock button that doesn't work. If you can tell, I really don't like MacBooks, or any variant of them. They are simply confusing and difficult to use, with me constantly typing up several things, like how to scroll down, how to right click, how to see the different windows etc.

  • @JanjayTrollface
    @JanjayTrollface4 жыл бұрын

    Washington started a tradition, he didn't set a limit.

  • @theAppleWizz

    @theAppleWizz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look at the 22 Amendment not a tradition anymore.

  • @jameslarkin4567

    @jameslarkin4567

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@theAppleWizz Washington didn’t add that amendment did he buddy?

  • @seendoo8393
    @seendoo83934 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video!

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mate glad you enjoyed :)

  • @seendoo8393

    @seendoo8393

    4 жыл бұрын

    Economics Explained ❤️

  • @elaynepringle5963
    @elaynepringle59633 жыл бұрын

    Did not know that you were in hospital, Happy that you are out and feeling better.

  • @coreymicallef365
    @coreymicallef3654 жыл бұрын

    1:38 Nothing particularly special about the starting position of the US, are you kidding? - More good ports on its east coast than the rest of the America's combined - The largest contiguous piece of temperate agricultural land (with really regular and favourable growing conditions too) for productive/profitable agriculture - The Mississippi river network and it tributaries almost completely navigable for shipping large amounts of freight with no need to build an extensive road network (the largest interconnected system like it in the world) making trade with the rest of the world ridiculously easy - A lot of flat easy/cheap/simple to develop land - A big and harsh desert between it and Mexico, its only early regional rival until it was beaten - An ocean between it and any other potential threats - Direct access to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to trade in - Started out with more land than they knew what to do with (and then kept expanding to the point of annexing almost all of the land worth having in North America, plus some) and started giving it away to anyone who'd farm it with really low barriers to entry for farming leading to massive immigration that gave it the world's 3rd largest population - Huge oil deposits and sizable coal resources to fuel industrialisation Some other countries might have some geographic advantages comparable to some of these, but definitely not to all of them, and a lot of those countries have some serious geographic obstacles to development that limits their economic size. 9:00 America didn't do what now? What the heck do you think that westwards expansion was if not colonialism? Just because there were contiguous to the initial territory of the US doesn't mean that settling the west was any different to setting up a whole lot of colonies.Let's not even consider the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Liberia, Panama, etc., or just the countries or regions that were simply economically dominated by the US. Also democracy (or rather stable predictable transfers of political power as is the point you're driving at in the video) and patents were neither invented in the US nor unique to it, or even unique in being practised at the same time.

  • @coreymicallef365

    @coreymicallef365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sonderweg9927 they annexed territory and established colonies populated with their own citizens. They had different names for it but it's the exact same thing.

  • @coreymicallef365

    @coreymicallef365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sonderweg9927 it really is a distinction without a difference. Pretending that the US' expansion was somehow distinct from the very same practices Britain carried out to establish the initial 13 colonies that formed the US is disingenuous at best.

  • @coreymicallef365

    @coreymicallef365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sonderweg9927 The only difference is the level of migration and the less dramatic shift demography (because there weren't a bunch of continent plagues killing ~90% of the native populations in Africa and Asia) in the colonised areas for certain parts of the Empire. But look at British colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Caribbean, that's no different to the US' westward expansion (except the US was just very successful in attracting far more migrants to settle there). If you're referring to how land and sphere's of influence were just allocated be a negotiated European fiat like in the scramble for Africa, well the US did quite a lot of that sort of thing too in various dealings with France, Russia, Spain, Mexico and Britain for territory in North America.

  • @S3Mi87

    @S3Mi87

    4 жыл бұрын

    "More good ports on its east coast than the rest of the America's combined" - Who built those ports? Natives, aliens? Who's keeping rest of the Ametica's to built the same?

  • @coreymicallef365

    @coreymicallef365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@S3Mi87 I was talking about natural harbours, ones with minimal need for artificial modification to be usable for even large freight ships to use. Not every piece of coastline is suitable to build a high capacity port on.

  • @MotoFeeder
    @MotoFeeder4 жыл бұрын

    “Stability is the foundation of a good economy, and good democracy is a very very stable system.” Excellent point, as are all your others. You’re dancing around the central cause. Everything you attribute to US success stems from 2 remarkable attributes you fail to mention. The first is a very very low ambient level of corruption. Simon Bolivar copied the US Constitution verbatim and it didn’t last his lifetime. What’s the difference between Canada and Mexico (besides the US physically)? You have a video lauding the Canadian economy, but not the Mexican economy. A democracy is only as stable as it’s ambient level of corruption will allow. Couple that low ambient level of corruption with the 2nd attribute, and every feature you highlight as a cause of US econ success is made possible. That 2nd attribute is the frame of mind or milieu that you can do anything you like unless the government prohibits it. In Europe you CANNOT do anything whatsoever until the government permits it. Yes, many current American’s are trying to eliminate their unique milieu, but it looks like it may survive another Saeculum. This unique world view is of course enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. For the first time in human history, the individual was born with rights rather than the government being the source of rights, and government’s purpose is to secure those rights. Upon those 2 attributes are built all your “causes” of American econ supremacy. The ambient level of corruption is by far the most important. The US and Canada both share the same level, but Canada does not share our unique milieu of the individual (nor does Europe).

  • @cseijifja

    @cseijifja

    4 жыл бұрын

    The "unique milieu " is also present in LA since it's inception, the problem is that SA was a lot of the kind of richness that demans little cooperation to produce, just thugs with guns and a lot of cheap labor force.The Spanish system of brining in nobles to administer regions , stuck in many countries of SA up until the 60's , as fucking ridicoulous as it sounds , there were literal feudal lords in Peru up until the 70's, wich explains the lack of middle class in many of this countries, wich in turn explain the shit economies this countries have been having, until recently , that is, little by little this countries are advancing quite a bit , if they can stay clear of violent civil wars or terrorist movements in their advance (the revolt in chile is, actually, a very positive thing i believe, the spread of wealth is a necesity in a good functioning goverment) they got it , they can do it.

  • @honkhonk8009

    @honkhonk8009

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah i think you got a point. Im canadian myself. Alot of ppl here have family in the states so culturally, were really similar. compared to europe, were much more neo-liberal in thinking. We basically have the same thinking. Its just that ppl expect too much from the gov sometimes.

  • @jerrybi8400

    @jerrybi8400

    2 жыл бұрын

    United States has massive corruption and a heavily polarized politics 🙄 but they still are strong due to the free market economic system but this does not mean everything is alright. Wealth inequality is high in the US and the rich billionaires (and politicians) own more then half of the country's wealth. America is a Oligarchy which nobody recognizes as one.

  • @johnnyapoliyo421

    @johnnyapoliyo421

    2 жыл бұрын

    All of you talk about u.s. economy as if it were always have been the same thing. Way wrong: It´s a fact that there has been a flip over after the killing of Abraham Lincoln, with the dawn of the Robber Barons. And the Fed act, finally set all pieces apart. It's over. America colapsed in 1971. (Rome also went on for a while)

  • @uchennanwogu2142

    @uchennanwogu2142

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jerrybi8400 The USA is the 14th least corrupt nation. How is that corrupt? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

  • @hapemokenela7388
    @hapemokenela73883 жыл бұрын

    Man, i love this channel.

  • @thecristianperspective2416
    @thecristianperspective24164 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos! It would be amazing if you could explain the Economics of China next!

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    It’s on the plan but that is going to be another video series, just because there is so much to talk about.

  • @phannhan2024
    @phannhan20244 жыл бұрын

    Personally I think the greatest credit for America's economic success has to be given to it's geography. For most countries, one can only has so much advantages on where they stand, large, isolated, resources-rich, high percentage of arable and habitable land, moderate and pleasant climate, biographically and geographically diverse, easy access to the world, huge systems of navigable rivers, long natural coastline, and most importantly, surrounded by weaklings and far away from the big guys,... Yet all of said advantages can be attributed to the US's geography, with virtually no flaw. It's just not exaggerated to say that the US hold the top position of the world only for where it is, let alone anything else

  • @greatwolf85
    @greatwolf854 жыл бұрын

    For a video that quickly covers how the USA rose to power from inception to roughly the early 1900's I think the USA-Mexico war should never be left out. It pretty much doubled the size of the country in just two years and it gave it access to precious metals, minerals and secured Texas too.

  • @devendrabaskey1
    @devendrabaskey14 жыл бұрын

    I love your work

  • @mattbrody3565
    @mattbrody35654 жыл бұрын

    The US really grew because of a mix of various resources and a wide-open market that allowed various possibilities to be pursued. From that perspective, and considering the variety of what the US economy offers, it's really only a monolith from a macroeconomic standpoint. I'm no economist or economics student, but to reconcile the different perspectives on economies, you can look at a macro-scale economic system as an aggregate of micro-economic systems, just like a biome in nature is the sum of the organisms living in it. The US economic "biome" is thriving because its constituents have fewer restrictions to their ability to "survive" or thrive. From a macro standpoint, the larger the transfer of materials in the system, the better. From a micro standpoint, frugality is king. The common thread is efficiency, which takes vast effort that is best enticed by the need for such efficiency to thrive, rather than a simple request for it. That has been the economic example of the US for 200-ish years, but has fallen apart a little bit over the past 60-70 years as expanded regulation have become commonplace. The way the US economy incentivizes people to participate is because the lack of a "social safety net" means that to keep the system from collapsing, constant business efforts need to take place. This means (or at one time meant) that by not using taxpayer money to subsidize the economy, the economy MUST stay productive enough on its own to avoid failures and inherently requires good management. This fell apart with the widespread adoption of credit, or "money from the void" as I like to call it- spending money that does not exist, creating a deficit on the assumption that the deficit will be replenished later with other money. This is an assumption that leads to a collapsing economic model if it fails, and this was not well understood nor well conveyed leading up to the Great Depression. From there, the road to recovery was basically economic CPR, which has set the example for expanded government intervention in economics, which may have begun to cement certain ineffective attributes like a stagnant University system and further mainstreaming of credit and loan systems. Prior to the Great Depression, the economic "biome" was more diverse in terms of the number of different individual businesses and firms, and it worked healthily when restricted by the availability of resources. It's now the biggest economy in the world not because it's a healthier ecosystem than before, but because the remaining constituents are strong and healthy... ish. The expanded regulations keep these large constituents restricted, but also have the side effect of reducing market competition and limiting the number of new options to pursue. This is starting to show when considering new experimental technologies, like the delayed research into advanced Nuclear systems that could revolutionize raw material processing and energy. The majority of US socioeconomics is based around a limited restriction approach, specifying the things that are not allowed and leaving everything else to the discretion of economic participants, while the trend today is leaning more and more towards a limited permissions approach, where something cannot be pursued without permission and paperwork. It's an unhealthy trend, but it's an uphill battle to avoid.

  • @abrvalg321
    @abrvalg3214 жыл бұрын

    3:16 there were no term limits till FDR 3:28 ever lol, greek policies, Venice and other republics don't cound But the real reason is: there were no wars as devastating as in Europe.

  • @abrvalg321

    @abrvalg321

    4 жыл бұрын

    @VictorHN did slaves left any significant mark on US economy?

  • @kappadarwin9476

    @kappadarwin9476

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@abrvalg321 Slavery actually hindered the southern economy, a wealthy slave owner can have their slaves make goods at lower prices out competing local businesses, increasing the wealth gap. The wealthy slave owner would then use their money and influence to try to get laws passed that favored them. Slavery is a blight on an economy not just morally but also economically.

  • @Mormielo

    @Mormielo

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am wondering when he'll mention that not having two world wars in the 20th century, one of which was really devastating, might have helped too.

  • @marodriba

    @marodriba

    4 жыл бұрын

    VictorHN Its a multi part series. He might mention it later...

  • @shadowyshadow6498

    @shadowyshadow6498

    4 жыл бұрын

    "But the real reason is: there were no wars as devastating as in Europe. " Lol most if not all of Europe's major powers that are left have slower growth than the US by a large margin, and they haven't had a war in 70 almost 80 years now. I wonder in 2050 when the European economies are still far behind the USA if you'll still be throwing this excuse out. The real reason is that the US let capitalism flourish and established its reputation as "land of the free" which made immigration and productive labor come from countries around the globe en masse. Combine that with large swaths of habitable land, some good resources, and you have the American dominance which we see today and through a good chunk of important history.

  • @axb6061
    @axb60614 жыл бұрын

    Yes! It’s incredible how patent laws are under-discussed in historical, economical and democratic videos. I haven’t heard or studied this in any school before, but as a history buss I often ran into the idea that my home Sweden also largely owes its stability to patent laws.

  • @joesterling4299

    @joesterling4299

    4 жыл бұрын

    The problem is that they were written before computers and the internet. Software patents are the single greatest threat to innovation in the modern era. They were granted without a good understanding of what is and is not obvious in programming, and a patent applicant doesn't have to build a complex piece of hardware to get his patent approved (since it's software). It's too easy, and too-easily abused. They have proliferated to the point where everyone is suing everyone who tries to come up with something new. Ask Apple, Intel, and Fortress Investment Group.

  • @cseijifja

    @cseijifja

    Жыл бұрын

    There are patent laws in many other countries tho.

  • @Dommy521
    @Dommy5214 жыл бұрын

    guys we need to join his patreon quality is so impressive

  • @eGToastyRecording
    @eGToastyRecording4 жыл бұрын

    This is the only fun economics channel on KZread

  • @gebys4559
    @gebys45594 жыл бұрын

    US has a s supreme geography, access to both oceans, located halfway between pole and equator, Mississippi for inland transport, two neighbours that can't really offer a challenge and a desert separating form the southern one. It's also a isolated fortress away from most conflicts so whatever they spend on militarily can be used offensively to project their power. US could have been a theocracy and would still be a great power, democracy only helps.

  • @luuchoo93

    @luuchoo93

    4 жыл бұрын

    gebys I disagree, democracy is a key element, since the system allows citizens to carry on with their lives knowing they get to vote and change the government when necessary. The US became the first modern democracy in the world when most countries where monarchies fighting their people or colonies. That political stability and strong institutions allowed it to grow non stop, while others faced turmoil and revolution.

  • @MishaFlower

    @MishaFlower

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree with luuchoo, The colonies were divided after the war of independence, Democracy and Washington's influence helped it stick together.

  • @gebys4559

    @gebys4559

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MishaFlower or railway and postal system did it, take your pick. countries don't need democracy to become unified, especially in the early days of development.

  • @MishaFlower

    @MishaFlower

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gebys4559 I don't think you understand, Several colonies wanted to separate from the union after the war, Especially after the articles of confederation were abolished undemocratically and concerns rose up about the legitimacy of the new federation. It wasn't caused by a lack communication.

  • @christodang

    @christodang

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think it definitely played a major role but it’s one of the factors that went right for the US. Geography (aka isolation), general political stability/no monarchy, starting from scratch (so more fluid class system) all helped the US continually grow since it’s inception

  • @khizarkhan4250
    @khizarkhan42504 жыл бұрын

    Washington never set the 2 term limit. He just chose to leave office after 2 terms, and many after him followed that example. FDR spend 3 terms in office, from 1933 to 1945, and in 1951 the 2 term limit was put into law.

  • @thejquinn

    @thejquinn

    Жыл бұрын

    *4 terms, died one month into his 4th. Also the 22nd Amendment was veto proof so even if Truman wanted to try and block it the bill, it had 90% of Congress behind it.

  • @Jjjkluejnek
    @Jjjkluejnek3 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ❤️

  • @abhisheklagad3694
    @abhisheklagad36944 жыл бұрын

    You edit well.

  • @AK-forty-seven
    @AK-forty-seven4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, cant wait for the next one.

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mate stay tuned :)

  • @lymphe
    @lymphe4 жыл бұрын

    Dude, how can u produce so many videos in such a short amount of time and still hold a certain level of quality? 😅

  • @prabhavmathur

    @prabhavmathur

    4 жыл бұрын

    He does not have to animate or do any camera work. So recording his voice and putting stock pics together is a bit easier.

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@prabhavmathur pretty much to be honest, I want to get to the next level of video quality here but for the most part most of my time is spent researching these topics which I do for fun anyway haha.

  • @prabhavmathur

    @prabhavmathur

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained LOL it's fine, I'm not complaining. Rather I like channels that upload frequently. Keep up the good work :)

  • @doid3r4s

    @doid3r4s

    4 жыл бұрын

    "certain level of quality" is an understatement. His videos are very well thought out and have great presentation. Amazing indeed.

  • @hotephousing4197

    @hotephousing4197

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained Not one mention of SLAVERY??? The economic ramifications were paramount to the USA becoming the largest economy of the world. Can't take this channel seriously.

  • @John-nd7il
    @John-nd7il2 жыл бұрын

    An overlook portion of the westward expansion, was the obsession with creating communication and transportation means along the way. There were plenty of big places at the time, but most of them were not very well connected internally for industry. Two big mountain ranges on either side made this a challenge, but it was definitely worth it

  • @theknight4317
    @theknight43174 жыл бұрын

    Ok, I am subscribed.

  • @ilikedota5
    @ilikedota54 жыл бұрын

    @7:02 You confused article 1 with the 1st Amendment. The Bill of Rights were in part, a political compromise that happened later, as opposed to part of the grand plan.

  • @JB-ue6lf
    @JB-ue6lf4 жыл бұрын

    People from other first world countries love to watch videos from this channel to have their egos stroked, but when one is made about the U.S it's turns into a god damn mosh pit in the comment section.

  • @BigBoss-sm9xj

    @BigBoss-sm9xj

    3 жыл бұрын

    USA!USA!USA!

  • @verykittypretty

    @verykittypretty

    2 жыл бұрын

    europeans hate americans for whatever reason

  • @footballuniverse6522

    @footballuniverse6522

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@verykittypretty we dont hate them, just love making fun of the dumb obese ones

  • @Tuppoo94
    @Tuppoo944 жыл бұрын

    Nice background music :D

  • @andrewevans5750
    @andrewevans57504 жыл бұрын

    team america, nice bro. either you have the best music choice or I am drunk.

  • @mtwata
    @mtwata4 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a video on the economics of the US military (how much they spend VS how much they make out of it)

  • @HBKJester

    @HBKJester

    2 жыл бұрын

    we get freedom out of it, and so do the free european countries, without the united states europe would be a communist continent by now

  • @weezywilson6409
    @weezywilson64092 жыл бұрын

    Soo proud to an American never knew how lucky I really was❤️🇺🇸

  • @herbertant4096

    @herbertant4096

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too brother !! 🇺🇸🙏🏽

  • @kentonbenoit9629

    @kentonbenoit9629

    2 жыл бұрын

    Canadian here who is always been fascinated and holding myself firmly against the glass" looking in 😌

  • @kentonbenoit9629

    @kentonbenoit9629

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks plenty big bro 😎

  • @hermeslein6614

    @hermeslein6614

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kentonbenoit9629 canadians hates Americans at least you have free healthcare

  • @kentonbenoit9629

    @kentonbenoit9629

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hermeslein6614 i do not hate Americans AMERICAN Is my favourite country for many fundamental reasons.

  • @mattbowdenuh
    @mattbowdenuh4 жыл бұрын

    Can't wait for the next parts :) Hope you cover the post-war Breton-Woods system that underpins today's global economy.

  • @troy2083
    @troy20832 жыл бұрын

    I like how the piano melody in the beginning of the video sounded like "America F*** Yeah" from the Team America movie

  • @danielabetts
    @danielabetts2 жыл бұрын

    The USA has two principal differentiating factors that have underpinned its success: 1. A general respect of the law, which allows dispute resolution (at least by the middle class and rich). This results in true protection of the business of innovation and invention. If Innovation is wildly profitable it becomes a business that everyone with means wants to be involved in. Ideas are cheap to produce and cheap to protect (comparatively), thus the business of innovation creates upward mobility. 2. The US has no real single national identity and it is a country of immigrants. This has kept the population of the country growing and labor relatively inexpensive. The US does not become affected by a demographic bubble and it’s openness to complex cultural mixing breeds creativity, which couple with (1) leads to extraordinary products and services that are ever changing and adapting. There are of course other factors, like certain freedoms and democracy (sort of), but these are not unique to the US. Note that factor 2 is common in the Americas, but factor 2 is not.

  • @sundeepprakashjaiswal9551
    @sundeepprakashjaiswal95514 жыл бұрын

    Please do it for China 🇨🇳 too! Good to know the insights on the USA. Keep doing good stuff, good luck.

  • @Bobelponge123

    @Bobelponge123

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sundeep Prakash Jaiswal China will fall India is better in Asia lol

  • @sundeepprakashjaiswal9551

    @sundeepprakashjaiswal9551

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Bobelponge123 inshallah

  • @Bobelponge123

    @Bobelponge123

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sundeep Prakash Jaiswal what

  • @sundeepprakashjaiswal9551

    @sundeepprakashjaiswal9551

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Bobelponge123 indeed!

  • @Simon-fw1qi
    @Simon-fw1qi2 жыл бұрын

    3:16 correction: The two term limit for Presidents was only enacted after the 4-term Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, in the late 1940's.

  • @a55tech
    @a55tech4 жыл бұрын

    u should link to part 2 in the description here

  • @mingming9604
    @mingming9604 Жыл бұрын

    US is not without negatives but they did get a lot of things right!

  • @098vladik098
    @098vladik0984 жыл бұрын

    can you do a vid on Russia?

  • @kappadarwin9476

    @kappadarwin9476

    4 жыл бұрын

    Russia the Putin Economy

  • @Bamiyanbigasf

    @Bamiyanbigasf

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can sum it up... Russia has the potential to be one of the biggest economies in the world but Putin made it a military state and allocates a lot of its assets towards the military instead of his people thus making Russia the wealthiest shithole but Putin is responsible for most of Russia’s modern success

  • @098vladik098

    @098vladik098

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Bamiyanbigasf i am aware of that because i speak Russian myself. I am actually more curious of what Russia could be had it put all the resources to work for the economy and not a handful lf wealthy people.

  • @Horible4

    @Horible4

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Bamiyanbigasf I'm a person that really pounds the gavel that Russia will forever be a mediocre economic power, and I don't think that comment is really fair. Sure, the money could go elsewhere but Russia has never really ever been a rich country to begin with. The problem stems from Putin wanting to get into an arms race with the United States it simply cannot win (see this video series as to why they will never have the money to keep up). Despite what Putin would tell you, he wants Russia to remain relevant as a superpower and pours a substantial amount of money into military weapon platforms that are hopelessly outdated and that they could never produce at a high enough level to be any threat to the United States. All Putin has to do is invest in its Air Force and it will be more than capable of defending itself from attack. Putin wants to go beyond that and has effectively shot his own country in the foot by invading Ukraine, resulting in sanctions that only worsen their own economy. Also stability in Russia is less than ideal, with Putin turning the country more into a monarchy by the week. The Russian people are no longer free, the government outsources work through slave labor in the Siberian landscape, and the government constantly tries to snuff out any political opposition to keep their people in office. Russia is entirely fucked for at least another hundred years.

  • @aroundtheworld2316

    @aroundtheworld2316

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've lived in Russia for a while, the place is corrupt to the core... oligarchs and Putin's cronies have sucked that country dry... largest resources in the world but a living standard below that of even Romania.... it's sad!!

  • @DangRenBo
    @DangRenBo5 ай бұрын

    I'm only at 1:30 now, starting the "How did America get so wealthy" section, but I want to predict something similar to "How Geography Made the US Ridiculously OP" video, which was one of my favorites from 2023 and which I recommend to everyone.

  • @kosta4063
    @kosta40634 жыл бұрын

    Could you do a video about the Economy in Germany

  • @ricchburglar
    @ricchburglar2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for this series. It would be awesome if you could make videos about how to improve economies. Let's start with my own: India🇮🇳 🙂

  • @EpicPornBot420-69
    @EpicPornBot420-694 жыл бұрын

    Do economics of Evo Morales!

  • @phillipotey9736
    @phillipotey97364 жыл бұрын

    It was july 2nd, George could not have become king, term limits were not a thing until way later... but I understand the confusion and the need to be concise. Great video!

  • @BloodRider1914
    @BloodRider19144 жыл бұрын

    It's all agriculture. American agricultural practices focused on food, not cash crops (except in the South, but that's a case in point). This allowed for consistent food surpluses, combined with decent management, allowing for an actually pretty well executed industrialisation.

  • @CHN-yh3uv
    @CHN-yh3uv2 жыл бұрын

    I’m gonna go off on a limb here and say it was 2 very profitable world wars.

  • @Shaboinki

    @Shaboinki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ya people often overlook the fact that WW2 was the biggest client American industries ever had. It was a boon for the USA while it was a tragedy for Europe.

  • @agbottan
    @agbottan4 жыл бұрын

    2 reasons: First World War Second World War

  • @joesterling4299

    @joesterling4299

    4 жыл бұрын

    In which America would have floundered if it hadn't spent the better part of 2 centuries building a solid economic and industrial foundation.

  • @agbottan

    @agbottan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joesterling4299, I agree.

  • @Abdega

    @Abdega

    4 жыл бұрын

    Reason 3: The internet

  • @lacdirk

    @lacdirk

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually, the first WW showed that the US could have fallen back into relative unimportance. The main reason for a change: the cold war.

  • @lacdirk

    @lacdirk

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joesterling4299 It didn't. It expanded into the largest part of the world that was uninhabited but perfect for modern agriculture and industry. It was the most successful ethnic cleansing in world history, leading to a relatively homogenous country. Most states never developed a separate identity. That meant that conflicts were relatively minor. When this started changing in the late 20th century, the federal government ground to a halt. It hasn't recovered, and has simply gotten worse ever since.

  • @ComradeGiru
    @ComradeGiru4 жыл бұрын

    "Not through conquest or exploitation"... Give me a break

  • @shadowyshadow6498

    @shadowyshadow6498

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually mostly true to be honest. Mostly thought settlement, which was different than say the British conquest of India, for example. The US settled and then claimed the land was rightfully theirs legally, which is probably the best way to expand if you need to do it.

  • @redpotato2585

    @redpotato2585

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@shadowyshadow6498 yeah lets just ignore the native americans they had to uh.... Relocate

  • @shadowyshadow6498

    @shadowyshadow6498

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@redpotato2585 Yeah, many of them did... your point?

  • @royronson3275

    @royronson3275

    4 жыл бұрын

    Red Potato not a lot of natives in North America in that time, mostly just disjointed, scattered tribes often battling among themselves. The vast majority of Natives has lived in central and South America and who had mostly been killed off by the the Spanish.

  • @cseijifja

    @cseijifja

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@royronson3275 again , a lie, they died due to sickness, the US agreesively murdered the shit out of the natives still living in the west frontier, backstabbing and encroaching into their territory every time they saw fit. Case in point, in SA , many countries have an overwhelming native populace majority, the natives of USA are kept in zoos around tiny , useless plots of land in the country.

  • @nsms1297
    @nsms12974 жыл бұрын

    Make a video on economy of China

  • @EconomicsExplained

    @EconomicsExplained

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is on the plan :)

  • @nsms1297

    @nsms1297

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained Thank you

  • @ayingchanda

    @ayingchanda

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained please dont be bias

  • @ayingchanda

    @ayingchanda

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EconomicsExplained with china

  • @kingofthejungle4491

    @kingofthejungle4491

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Economics Explained You made a mistake in the video though. America was the copycat piracy king of the world until about 1920. Google for an article called "We were pirates too" from Foreignpolicy and "a nation of outlaws" from the Boston Archives. They made fake medicine, fake food, fake wine, fake butter, fake everything and even had state sanctioned bounties given out to people who successfully stole technology and know-how from Europe. America only started to innovate and respect patents when it finish copying and stealing technology from Europe, reach parity, and then started to produce its own patents.

  • @Ark--fn8my
    @Ark--fn8my4 жыл бұрын

    Just a question, didn't FDR run for presidency for 3 time and won all of them? yet at the beginning you said Washinton established 2 term limit for presidency

  • @Saitaina
    @Saitaina4 жыл бұрын

    "Politely asked to leave office..." "Why is my throne on the front lawn, Susan?!"

  • @alexanderarden2152
    @alexanderarden21524 жыл бұрын

    Stability and economics explained, named a more iconic duo!!!

  • @charnalking
    @charnalking4 жыл бұрын

    Many of the factory owning class in industrial age Europe where not landed gentry, this is actually where the term "nouveaux riches" comes from. In addition there was an exploding middle class and a wealth of innovation, with many of the technological and scientific achievements occurring within Europe. There is one clear turning point which led to the supremacy of the USA, war. The wealth of the USA DOUBLED over the course of the first world war whilst Europe was ruined. Being able to not be invaded or bombed, joining wars late on, and bankrolling/supplying the participants at huge profits was a winning formula for the US in both world wars.

  • @Manos_P_
    @Manos_P_4 жыл бұрын

    Hey, it would be nice if u make a video about patents and why is an obstacle now for science instead of something to boost the technological progress :)

  • @johnmraz4332
    @johnmraz43324 жыл бұрын

    3:20 Heads up. George Washington didn't set up a 2 term limit. Just the precedent. Presidents could have more than 2 terms. Most just didn't. The 2 term limit wasn't codified into law until 1951

  • @GenericInternetter
    @GenericInternetter2 жыл бұрын

    One (of many) reasons why Brazil has not had the same success is geography. Brazil's terrain is notoriously difficult to build on. The ground is mostly uneven, with plenty of hills and mountains. Furthermore, many areas of Brazil's ground are composed of soft, red mud. Construction of roads, highways, and buildings is a nightmare. Landslides are commonplace, and potholes appear like flies. These issues make industry and logistics extremely difficult.

  • @BoilingHotCoffee
    @BoilingHotCoffee4 жыл бұрын

    0:32 fashion island!!

  • @vetabeta9890
    @vetabeta98904 жыл бұрын

    Why can't there be a video that mentions America without people in the comments trashing it and its people

  • @ddcplayergames2370

    @ddcplayergames2370

    4 жыл бұрын

    anti americanism

  • @TrueBlueVinn
    @TrueBlueVinn4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I don't know how to reach out to you, so I'm writing here. I would really love it if you could explain the economics of slavery. I really enjoy watching your analyses and thought it'd be really helpful to hear your thoughts on the atlantic slave trade as well.

  • @ichtozavuzovsky8370

    @ichtozavuzovsky8370

    4 жыл бұрын

    fire

  • @clarapilier

    @clarapilier

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought I was the only one who found it a little weird that he skipped slavery.

  • @IllinoisTrafficAttorney

    @IllinoisTrafficAttorney

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@clarapilier agreed. It was instrumental. Slavery produced the raw materials in quantities necessary for the first Industries in the United States to be created. Textiles were the first US industry and cheap cotton was instrumental. One can disagree over how much of a role it played in creating the modern United States but to not even mention it is really unusual

  • @Bobelponge123

    @Bobelponge123

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jason Wilkins more cotton from the south went to Britain than the north, so it is actually false

  • @TrueBlueVinn

    @TrueBlueVinn

    4 жыл бұрын

    So I made this request because this channel looks at things only from an economic perspective. Through the perspective of this channel, whether or not China oppresses its own citizens, if that oppression leads to economic positives then China deserves some credit. Similarly, we all can agree that slavery was rightfully abolished and lets not argue that here. But regardless, purely from an economic perspective as this channel aspires to make its analyses, what were its effects? Did it help propel growth? Or was it not as beneficial as employing colonists to do their own farmwork would have been? Furthermore post-abolition, were the benefits of slavery back then worth it with regards to the societal friction and inequality between races that we see today? Again, lets never claim that slavery could be a thing again. But then again lets investigate for the sake of scholarly learning and better understanding of economics.

  • @vidyasagar8587
    @vidyasagar85872 жыл бұрын

    Has rest videos been added to the page?