

How Money Works
How Money Works
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Sep 27, 2025 • 14min
How Companies Cheated Price Fixing Laws... With Math | How Money Works
How Companies Cheated Price Fixing Laws... With Math
🧠 Brain.fm is the best focuse music I’ve ever tried - get 30 days free here https://www.brain.fm/HMW-----Sign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/The everything war - https://www.amazon.com/Everything-War-Dana-Mattioli/dp/0316269778 (but do consider buying it at your local book store)Books we recommend - https://howmoneyworkslibrary.com/-----My Other Channel: @HowHistoryWorks Edited By: Svibe Multimedia StudioMusic Courtesy of: Epidemic SoundSelect Footage Courtesy of: Getty ImagesFor sponsorship inquiries, please contact 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.#business #inflation #finance ------Algorithms are everywhere. Every app, every website, EVERY business you interact with has a program working away in the background to show you what you want to see, get you to make decisions you didn’t have to, and make you spend as much as you’re absolutely willing to on stuff you didn’t know you needed…A month ago Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner announced that the fast food franchise would be introducing dynamic pricing. A system where how much you pay for a Baconator would depend on an algorithm that balanced customer demand with store capacity.According to the companies announcement they were planning to invest twenty MILLION dollars [$20,000,000] into this technology before it was rightfully ridiculed across the internet.This was a win for the little guy that just wanted to clog their arteries at a predictable price point, but Wendy’s only mistake was announcing their plans. Dynamic pricing is already here, and it’s making inflation and essential feature.So it’s time to learn How Money Works to find out how mathematical models mandated inflation.
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Sep 27, 2025 • 19min
Private Equity is a TERRIBLE Investment... Who Keeps Giving Them Money? | How Money Works
Private Equity is a TERRIBLE Investment... Who Keeps Giving Them Money?
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Sep 27, 2025 • 14min
You Suck at Investing. | How Money Works
You Suck at Investing.
Upgrade the way you learn with Brilliant! To get started for FREE go to http://www.brilliant.org/howmoneyworksSign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈-----Investing is the most important thing you can do to reliably build wealth during your life. The only problem is… you inevitably suck at it…The S&P 500 has a historical average return of 10.4% over the past 100 years, even when including all the major stock market downturns during that time. $10,000 invested in 1972 would be worth $1.7 Million today. But look around, and you will be hard pressed to find anybody who has made themselves wealthy EXCLUSIVELY through diligent investing practices.Research done by Dalbar Inc an investment research firm found that the average equity fund investor only made average annualized returns of 4.25% over the past 20 years. To understand how big a difference this truly is, the same investor getting those returns would only turn their initial $10,000 investment into $83,000 today over the same 50 year period.People are terrible at investing, YOU are terrible at investing, and even finance industry professionals are buy and large… terrible at investing. The only real solution is to stop trying. #Investing #PersonalFinance #HowMoneyWorks -----Edited By: Andrew GonzalesMusic 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.
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Sep 27, 2025 • 16min
The Great Corporate Extinction | How Money Works
The Great Corporate Extinction
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2023 saw a record number of new businesses being created here in America, with five and a half MILLION new companies being registered within the year.
Data hasn’t been published for 2024 yet, but most expectations suggest this record could be broken again.
At the same time it seems like every pre-revenue, pre-idea, pre-clue startup that vaguely mentions artificial intelligence is getting billions of dollars thrown at them by cashed up investors.
And yet there is a problem that you may not have noticed.
There just aren’t that many companies anymore.
In 1996 the market hit an all time record of 8,090 companies publicly listed on the various stock markets around America.
Today almost 30 years later, despite the economy being THREE times larger, and the market handling about SEVEN times as much capital, there are fewer than HALF as many companies publicly available to buy shares in.
There are a lot of theories about what is going on here, from private equity making wall street irrelevant, corporate consolidation, to the dwindling savings of average investors.
BUT there are some even bigger issues at play here.
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Sep 27, 2025 • 16min
The Tax System is Broken... in Just The Right Way | How Money Works
The Tax System is Broken... In Just The Right Way
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Sep 26, 2025 • 13min
Why Are Americans So Pessimistic? | How Money Works
Why Are Americans So Pessimistic?
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Sep 26, 2025 • 13min
Financial Fraud Is At An All Time High - Here is Why That's A Good Thing - How Money Works | How Money Works
Financial Fraud Is At An All Time High - Here is Why That's A Good Thing - How Money Works
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/howmoneyworks04221Sign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈Financial fraud is at an all-time high!American consumers lost a staggering $5.8 billion dollars to a range of schemes in 2021. This represented a 70% increase over losses in 2020. This is part of a bigger trend which is seeing more people losing money to scams, schemes and hacks at a time where all of us should probably know better. Consumers were just one group hit hard by scams. Corporations and even the government have seen a serious increase in losses caused by fraudulent behaviour. There are a few reasons behind this trend which are worth exploring and understanding because they can give some clues about how these scams work, how they can be avoided and why record high fraud figures might actually be a good thing. #HowMoneyWorks #Scams Link To The Capitalists Discord where I hang out with other creators - https://discord.gg/8MeNJ7gfSRMusic by Epidemic SoundStock footage by Story Blocks
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Sep 26, 2025 • 15min
WTF Does Private Equity Actually Do? | How Money Works
WTF Does Private Equity Actually Do?
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Sep 26, 2025 • 16min
The Surprisingly Solid Case For A Three Day Work Week - How Money Works | How Money Works
The Surprisingly Solid Case For A Three Day Work Week - How Money Works
Click the link to check out Storyblocks and sign up for the Unlimited All-Access Plan: https://storyblocks.com/howmoneyworksSign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈___________________________________________________________________________The fight for fewer working days is a battle as old as worker relations. Just 100 years ago the five-day workweek was unthinkable for American laborers but in 1932 the states officially adopted the five-day work week to combat the unemployment crisis caused by the stock crash and subsequent great depression of 1929. We are currently amid another shakeup to our way of life, one that is on par with the severity of the great depression. So perhaps it’s time again to re-assess how we work, maybe it’s time again to look at the surprisingly solid case for cutting down the days that the average American worker devotes to labor. There is a surprisingly solid case for a working week of just THREE days for most jobs.#HowMoneyWorks #TheGreatResignation #LaborCrisis___________________________________________________________________________Link to my brand new Patreon 👉 https://www.patreon.com/HowMoneyWorks ❤️___________________________________________________________________________Link To The Capitalists Discord where I hang out with other creators - https://discord.gg/8MeNJ7gfSRMusic by Epidemic SoundStock footage by Storyblocks
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Sep 24, 2025 • 13min
The "Skills Gap" Myth | How Money Works
The "Skills Gap" Myth
🔒 Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code MONEY for 4 months EXTRA at → https://surfshark.com/money-----The Market Exit's Video: https://youtu.be/QoFLHx-t-Yk?si=1PnSEbZi7y0BbKBpSign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/Books we recommend - https://howmoneyworkslibrary.com/-----My Other Channel: @HowHistoryWorks Uncut videos: @HowMoneyWorksUncut Edited 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.#jobs #business #career ----There are eight point two MILLION job openings in America right now, and around seven million people actively looking for a job… There are also millions of American who have simply given up on even trying to look for a job, but still companies are complaining that they can’t get the people they need…There is one reason that has been used time and time again to explain this all. Yep… the skills gap… There are people looking for work, and jobs on offer… but the skills of those people and the requirements of the jobs just don’t line up… It’s a simple elegant explanation to a major problem… but it’s also almost entirely made up… The skills gap also known as the skills shortage, or just good old structural unemployment is a convenient excuse for a lot of the major issues in todays job market that are often swept under the rug by businesses, politicians, and even economic statistics. If a hospital is hiring a doctor, but the only person in the town looking for a job has a degree in computer science then obviously that role is not going to be filled regardless of how much time and effort the applicant has put into their education. The argument that you would have seen is that this same problem is playing out everywhere across the world which is why even if companies claim to be desperate to hire people, you may struggle to find a job… The whole argument conveniently shifts the blame of any labor market problems onto the workers because they are the ones that haven’t trained the right skills or developed the right experience. So it’s time to learn How Money Works to find out how the myth of the “skills gap” helps everyone… but you.
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