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Sep 30, 2025 • 14min
10 Ways Billionaires Avoid Tax On A Massive Scale - How Money Works | How Money Works
10 Ways Billionaires Avoid Tax On A Massive Scale - How Money Works
Get 10% off your first month of therapy with our sponsors BetterHelp: http://BetterHelp.com/HowMoneyWorksSign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈-------------Rich people didn’t get rich by paying a lot of taxes and for some of them avoiding uncle Sam has become their favourite pastime. Say what you will about billionaires, but they can be a very creative bunch where their money is concerned. Last year ProPublica a non-profit investigative journalism organisation was leaked a cache of IRS files that contained tax information about the richest people in America. Dozens of journalists and forensic accountants were able to reverse engineer a number of systems that the billionaires used to pay much lower rates of income tax than most regular working Americans. #tax #billionaire #howmoneyworks --------------ProPublica Articles: https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidance-techniques-irs-fileshttps://www.propublica.org/article/a-massive-oil-spill-helped-one-billionaire-avoid-paying-income-tax-for-14-yearsEdited By: Andrew GonzalesMusic Courtesy of: Epidemic SoundSelect Footage Courtesy of: Getty ImagesAll materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind.
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Sep 30, 2025 • 15min
Have Car Companies "Innovated" Themselves Out of Business | How Money Works
Have Car Companies "Innovated" Themselves Out of Business
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Sep 29, 2025 • 15min
Why Most People Are Actually "Too Good" For Their Job | How Money Works
Why Most People Are Actually "Too Good" For Their Job
Check out Manta Sleep here https://tinyurl.com/4w9rc5cu and use code HOWMONEYWORKS for 10% off your order!Sign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/Books we recommend - https://howmoneyworkslibrary.com/-----My Other Channel: @howhistoryworksEdited By: Svibe Multimedia StudioMusic Courtesy of: Epidemic SoundSelect Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ sponsors@worksmedia.groupSign up for our newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈All materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind.#career #finance #college -----I have some bad news for you…You probably won’t ever be a tech worker at a FAANG company, a bulge bracket finance bro or a high-powered corporate executive.Society needs people to do the real jobs that keep us housed, fed and safe, and it needs them a lot more than it needs another McKinsey consultant.This is a problem because no matter how you put it, a job where you sit in an air-conditioned office making six figures a year in your first year out of college is way more desirable than doing roadwork in Arizona for 20 bucks an hour.The problem is that everybody is trying really hard to pretend this isn’t true, and the system that has sprung up to maintain this dream has caused more problems than you realize. Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist, who mathematically models the statistical dynamics of historical societies. He coined the theory of “Elite Overproduction”. He argues in his books and papers that societies make workers just like they make anything, a car goes through a factory, and a college graduate goes through a few decades of schooling. At the end you get something you can drive around in and something that can make pivot tables in excel.
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Sep 29, 2025 • 16min
Well... At Least We Aren't Canada | How Money Works
Well... At Least We Aren't Canada
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Sep 29, 2025 • 16min
How Fines Became "The Cost of Doing Business" | How Money Works
How Fines Became "The Cost of Doing Business"
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Sep 29, 2025 • 14min
Can We Afford For Everybody To Be Financially Responsible? | How Money Works
Can We Afford For Everybody To Be Financially Responsible?
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Sep 29, 2025 • 15min
Most People Don't Realize Just HOW Concentrated The Economy Has Become | How Money Works
Wealth is becoming alarmingly concentrated in the hands of a few, with private equity controlling a significant chunk of the U.S. economy. Major index funds now own substantial shares in most large companies, raising questions about fair resource distribution. Local monopolies are emerging, affecting youth sports leagues and community economics. This concentration also stifles job opportunities and hinders entrepreneurship, creating challenges for those looking to thrive in an increasingly competitive market.

Sep 29, 2025 • 9min
What You Need To Know About SVB, Silvergate & Signature Bank Collapses (In 7 Minutes) | How Money Works
What You Need To Know About SVB, Silvergate & Signature Bank Collapses (In 7 Minutes)
Sign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈----Last week America had it’s second largest bank collapse ever, here is how that actually happened in seven minutes. Silicon Valley Bank the 16th biggest bank in America has been shut down by regulators and its operations have been seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation just three days after Silvergate bank another Californian Bank announced it would by winding downs it’s operations and liquidating. SVB was called the investors investor as they had a venture capital and credit arm that would directly invest into funds such as sequoia capital, Ribbit Capital, Spark Capital and Greylock, basically the who’s who of institutional investors in Silicon Valley. Most new businesses fail so traditional banks aren’t going to lend to any company that can’t show consistent profits or put up adequate security. Just like Silvergate saw a gap in the market to serve risky crypto traders Silicon Valley Bank saw a gap to serve new start-ups. -------Edited By: Andrew GonzalesPatrick Boyle's video at 1:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxcwn7xoXhU&t=163sMusic Courtesy of: Epidemic SoundSelect Footage Courtesy of: Getty ImagesFor sponsorship inquiries, please contact sponsors@worksmedia.groupAll materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind.#svb #silvergate #signature
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Sep 29, 2025 • 16min
Buy Now Default Later - The Broken Business of BNPL | How Money Works
Buy Now Default Later - The Broken Business of BNPL
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Buy Now Pay Later companies now have over half a trillion dollars worth of debt on their books according to estimates from industry groups.
An exact number is harder to track than something like total credit card debt because these companies are not required to record their lending practices in the same way.
Either way this is an especially concerning amount of money because by design “buy now pay later” “loans” SHOULD only last for eight weeks before they are paid off in a predictable instalment plan.
But new research (and company confessions) have revealed what you probably already knew… people aren’t really paying off their Klarna account, they are just using it as a new way to make their month go a little bit further at the end of their money…
Most of the largest Buy Now Pay Later companies are barely ten years old now, but in that time they have been able to scale rapidly thanks to a combination of generous investor funding, a tech bro attitude towards regulations, and a service that was appealing to people who didn’t want to go through a formal credit application process… for whatever reason…
The argument was that these companies weren’t giving out loans… They were just letting people split up their purchase into smaller payments made over a set time period, and if everything was done properly the users wouldn’t even need to pay interest.
But now after giving out quick, easy “not-loans” to anybody who could download an app, the companies are pulling a shocked Pikachu that their “not-debt” is NOT getting paid back.
Now consumer debt defaults are on the rise everywhere, but BNPL has its own risks that could make this a whole lot worse than people not being able to split their Costco hotdog into 4 easy payments.
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Sep 28, 2025 • 13min
Strikes Just Shut Down America's Most Important Ports... WTF Happens Now? (Never mind it’s over) | How Money Works
Strikes Just Shut Down America's Most Important Ports... WTF Happens Now? (Never mind it’s over)
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