Economics Explained: The Rise and Fall of the USA?

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The USA is home to the largest and most influential economy in human history, but why? What allowed America to pull ahead of its global peers? Was it resources, free markets or the American Spirit? Or was it just being in the right place at the right time? What happens when that time ends?

1929

54:45

The Great Depression begins with the 1929 crash of the Wall Street Stock Exchange. Fueled by the idea that everyone could get rich without limits, this great economic crisis puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s.

Digits

52:13

Host Derek Muller escorts us to the physical heart of the Internet, describes the very first message sent by UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock, and demonstrates how Internet co-creators Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn devised a language that gave birth to the Internet as we know it.

In the Grip of Gazprom

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As this two-part story unfolds, delve into the early history of the dramatic international gas war and Russia's Gazprom—perhaps the most secretive company in the world. Explore events from the fall of the Soviet Union to the Russian gold rush and learn of the restrictions placed by President Putin.