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Black and white portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Caption. Among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Woman and man, seated and smiling in front of a white columned monument. Caption. Cows. Sheep?

The rooftops of different buildings. Behind all the buildings is a large river with boats and ships in it. Text reads, “Industrialization and Economic Development.”

Stacked shipping containers, 1 colorfully painted with scenes in foreground. Caption. Chile is a stunning example of what can happen.

Still image from: Between the Waters: Part 3

Still image from: Between the Waters: Part 4

Still image from: Between the Waters: Part 5

Man seated on a stool in a classroom motions across his chest with pointed left index finger while children watch. Sound of bell ringing.

2 teenage boys wearing denim jeans and t-shirts frown and look at money in their hands. Caption. If you exchange to U, S dollars.

Still image from: Books That Changed the World: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--Part 1 (Spanish)

Still image from: Books That Changed the World: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--Part 2 (Spanish)

Still image from: Books That Changed the World: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--Part 3 (Spanish)

Still image from: Books That Changed the World: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--Part 4 (Spanish)

Black and white photo of a World War 1 battle ship surrounded by crowds of people and soldiers on deck. Caption. The country went to war in 1917, singing.

Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Citizens United v. FEC

Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: McDonald v. Chicago

2 women standing in a kitchen; 1 holds a telephone, the other has a coffee maker. Caption. Each saw the trade as a benefit to themselves.

Closeup of rice blades, some flowering. Caption. Rice is easily the most important crop.

Still image from: Civics Fundamentals With Judge Douglas Ginsburg: What Is the Economic System in the United States?

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Gilded Age Politics

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Taxes and Smuggling--Prelude to Revolution

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Great Depression

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Industrial Economy

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Market Revolution

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The New Deal

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Progressive Era

Still image from: Crash Course World History I: Globalization--Good or Bad? (Part 2)

Still image from: Crash Course World History I: Globalization--The Upside (Part 1)

Still image from: Crash Course World History I: Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and the Indian Ocean Trade

Still image from: Crash Course World History I: Venice and the Ottoman Empire

Still image from: Crash Course World History II: Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company

Back of a Black woman's head looking towards a group of small Black children, all dressed in gray uniforms and seated in a circle around her. Caption. But in each unique part of the world.

Woman wearing a green long sleeve shirt and blue scarf speaks to camera. Caption. To do a guaranteed federal student loan instead.

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Four Sectors of Economy. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Consumers and producers. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, Goods and Services. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Micro versus Macro. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Needs and Wants. Kid Explorer.”

Five dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Supply and Demand. Kid Explorer.”

Dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “Types of Economy. Kid Explorer.”

Dollar bill, bright rainbow lights, a government building, and city skyscrapers overlaid on top of each other. Text reads, “What is Economics. Kid Explorer.”

Digital illustration. Woman smiles and stands next to text that reads, "Goods and Services. Economics for kids. Teaching without frills."

Digital illustration. Woman smiles stands next to text that reads, "Needs and Wants. Economics for kids. Teaching without frills."

Digital illustration. Woman smiles and stands next to text that reads, "Producers and Consumers. Economics for kids. Teaching without frills."

Digital illustration. Woman smiles and stands next to text that reads, "Saving and Spending. Economics for kids. Teaching without frills."

Industrial smokestack releasing pollution into the air as seen from below. Caption: And most people worry about environmental pollution

Korean man dressed in black looking off camera. Caption. Norberg as narrator. In desperation, Dae Sung Kim fled North Korea.

Cartoon of man speaking on corded telephone with index finger of other hand pointing up. Caption. Let's raise and fix our prices.

Person at an expresso machine in a shop. Caption: I love that I can now drink Fair Trade Certified coffee

Still image from: Financial Literacy for Kids

Young man with short brown hair looks off camera. Caption. These things help decide what should go in your budget.

Black and white photo of a crowd of dozens of men standing at the factory gates. Caption. American factories worked to capacity to fill the demand.

Cloeup frame of man in front of black menu board with fuchsia pink writing. Caption. To close, restaurant.

Closeup of man with harbor and skyscrapers behind him, speaking. Caption. Hong Kong was leased to Britain as a colony.

Binary code raining on a dark background. Text reads, “From Computers to Artificial Intelligence: A History. 2003 to 2013.”

2 men stand with their backs facing camera as 1 films with a video camera on his shoulder. A man in a suit bends down to enter a helicopter in the background. Caption. He took us on a tour of his latest investments.

Woman with brown curly short hair and cornflower blue shirt looks just off camera. Caption. It'll make a big difference by the time you retire.

Wide shot of crowded vehicle and pedestrian street in India. Caption. Held steadily at 7% in the 10-year span.

Closeup of a coin sorting basin that is filled to the top by a pipe dropping coins into it. Caption. All the coins come here to be counted.

MIddle-aged man looks slightly off camera as if giving an interview, with shelves of books behind him. Caption. And keep an umbrella over their prices.

Portrait photographs of 3 men. Caption. They back inventors like Rob Campbell.

Still image from: Lab Six: The Bank (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: The Bank--Part 2 (Spanish)

Digital illustration of a boy holding out a ball toward another boy with a bike. Play structure and sandbox in background. Caption. I'll trade you a bouncy for a ride on the bike.

Still image from: Make48: Nationals--Patents & Prototypes

Exterior shot of the New York Stock Exchange building with pillars, arched windows, and 3 small American flags fixed at an angle.

3 Asian women smiling with 1 waving. Caption. Toward a better life is undeniable.

Close up of dollar bills running through a machine. Caption. The bills are then cut and wrapped.

Individual in a suit approaches an open door with back facing camera. Caption. We have a vault within a vault, where the cash is kept.

Closeup of a man wearing small eyeglasses and a white and blue striped shirt. Greenery is in the background. Caption. Eating cheap food leads to more health problems.

Closeup of several bundles of whole carrots next to several stocks of another green vegetable. Caption. You subsidize carrots instead.

Painting of an English nobleman wearing a gold and white fur jacket and cape, and a powdered wig. Caption. Of great wealth and property, imagined our very world.

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Bouncing Back From Adversity

Closeup of a woman with brown eyes and dark hair pulled back. A green plant and beige walls are blurred behind her. Caption. Tend to be more expensive in low-income neighborhoods.

Closeup of a brown toad. Caption: there's probably 20, 30 mature toads in this area.

Still image from: Nick News: Inflation, Climate, Robots, Teen Rodeo

Black and white photo of woman wearing a scarf over her head and tattered sari.

Still image from: Origin of Everything: A Brief History of Men's Underwear

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Do Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Economic Lessons From Past Pandemics

Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Columbus Invented Cannibals

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Six Historically True Facts about Money

Still image from: Origin of Everything: The History of Socialism in America

Still image from: Origin of Everything: What If There Were No Taxes?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Are Prescription Drugs So Expensive?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do All Malls Look the Same?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do Students Have So Much Debt?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Drink Milk in School?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Go to Prom?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Have Hobbies?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Have Private Prisons?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Is There a North and South Korea?

Man wearing a pink plaid shirt looks down and touches a piece of yellow leather that another man in a light green hoodie is holding. Hundreds of colorful leather samples are on the wall behind them. Caption. Their leather making skill is world renowned.

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Effects on Economy (Episode 6)

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Federalist 10

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Federalist 70

Man wearing a business suit holds a metal rod and faces towards camera. Behind him, a factory floor with a few workers seated at desks. Caption. It is productivity that holds the supply side together.

Middle-aged man with thick framed glasses wearing a business suit faces camera. He is seated behind a desk and resting his hands in front of him on a folder. Caption. Reflecting the value of money, really, all over there world.

Young woman reads a piece of paper in a home setting. Caption. In terms of what happens to those credit card offers.

Still image from: Reggie in China (Episode 1)

Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Work Week

Young adult seated on a couch in a home setting leans over to review documents on a coffee table. Caption. If you're not sure where the mortgage.

Wide shot of a road passing through a tree-lined street. Caption. I guess the best way to understand the present.

Closeup of a girl sleeping on her side beneath a colorful blanket in a darkened room.

Closeup of the midsection of a person in a yellow windbreaker with a blue lanyard. 1 arm reaches out to insert a ticket into a machine.

Woman in a suit and glasses turns to the side as she parts her lips as she speaks and holds out 1 hand. Green and burgundy plants fill background.

Still image from: Sea Change: Cultural Ripples (Part 7)

Still image from: Sea Change: Economic Waves (Part 5)

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Black and white still of a man standing next to a machine with 2 large rollers. Caption. During this time.

Black and white image of a man in a fedora standing next to a machine erupting with steam. Spanish caption. Uno de los inventos más importantes.

2 young women seated at a table, engrossed in their conversation, and eating a McDonald's meal.

Coastal bay with a docked boat. Caption: The New Zealand people have a strong connection to the sea,

Closeup on a woman's hands holding a bill with several bills and a checkbook on the table below her. Caption. How much would you like to spend each month?

Man in a collared shirt faces away from camera as he writes on a whiteboard. Caption. What does I, P, O stand for?

4 young women sit at school desks and look at papers. Woman in a blazer faces away from camera and gestures toward them. Caption. Please follow a pattern in your reporting instructions.

Woman faces to the side as she parts her lips to speak. 2 young men sit at desks beneath a world map in the background. Caption. Into an account that receives compound interest.

Teenage boy points to a flowchart on a poster that rests in front of a chalkboard. Caption. How the Federal Reserve system sells bonds.

Young man in glasses sits at a desk with an open book and a calculator. He furrows his brow and parts lips as he speaks. Voiceover Caption. Every student, every citizen needs to understand about G, D, P.

Woman in glasses holds palms together and purses lips as she speaks. She stands next to a cluttered desk. Caption. We've spent a lot of time looking at government.

Young woman looks to the side and speaks. Caption. More customs revenue because the tariffs will be so high.

Woman in glasses and apron turns to the side as she speaks. Teenage girl with a confused expression looks on in background. Caption. So how much do you wanna charge for these cookies?

Screenshot of C-SPAN coverage of a congressional hearing. Title bar below reads, Financial Market Regulators, House Oversight Committee. Caption. I will start the questioning.

Black and white portrait images of 3 men wearing suit jackets.

Black and white frame shows men wearing long coats and hats waiting in a line outside a building beneath a sign that says, "Coffee and Doughnuts for the Unemployed." Text reads, "The Great Depression."

Black and white closeup of a person ladling soup into another's bowl. Caption. The Depression was more than an economic problem.

Woman smiles at camera and holds up a pan with freshly baked bread. Next to her, a bust of Adam Smith. Caption. Is the [emphasis] invisible hand.

Exterior of the neoclassical United States Mint building with rows of white marble blocks and arched windows with decorative reliefs and wrought iron bar coverings.

Teenage boy looking at camera, speaking. So did that mean that there were fewer jobs?

Suspended hoist running along tall beam lifting logs. Caption. How do you cut down trees? You need some saws.

Closeup of a Black girl in a wide smile standing next to 2 Black boys.

Man wearing a collared shirt and dark blazer speaks towards camera, standing in a busy outdoor marketplace in a plaza. Caption. They want to produce, buy, and sell things.

Closeup of an Indian woman wearing a gold head scarf and gold jewelry. She is smiling and looking off to her left. Caption. I might have rice for 1 meal, but not another.

Chinese woman wearing a white blazer and oval glasses sits in a modern lobby. She's looking just off camera like she is in an interview. Caption. Sun Yan Yan as narrator. We provide a kind of platform-like facility.

African man looks past camera and off into the distance, standing in front of open ocean. Caption. Joshua Korlety has been fishing his entire life.

A bear laying across train tracks with two people standing above it. Caption: Train robberies were a big problem in the Wild West.

Man wearing a black jacket, white shirt and pocket square, leans against Westminster Bridge with the Palace of Westminster in the background. Caption. Smith followed them closely and wrote about them in detail.

2 women next to each other with man standing behind them. Caption. Narrator. Bingo! What's that again?

Brown-haired woman wearing a floral-print shirt stands in front of a wall and talks to us.

Illustration shows a frame divided by a road that leads toward US Capitol building in the middle. From the Capitol, a green money arrow points left, toward a cityscape, a park, houses, and a construction worker, labeled "New Deal"; and another money arrow points toward the right side labeled "War Effort," depicting military vehicles, weapons, and factories.

Split-screen interview. On the left, a woman with curly brown hair is blinking while on the right, a woman with straight red hair is speaking.

Shocked emoji next to the outline of a line graph labeled 2008 that shows a sudden sharp drop-off.

Woman wearing a black blouse talks to us. Next to her, an illustration of a gold crown on which is written "Royalties."

Woman wearing a mustard-yellow blouse speaks to us emphatically, standing before a spooky green-glowing background that resembles a cave, and next to a framed illustrated portrait of a winged goblin wearing human clothes. The portrait is labeled, "Non-profit debt counselor."

Infographic shows a cartoon woman wearing a formal top, skirt, and heels with her hands on her hips, next to a bar graph that shows a green bar labeled "10% payouts above the horizontal line and a red bar below the line.

Woman wearing an ornate necklace with her hair in braids blinks as she speaks to us from an interior space.

Woman wearing a floral-printed and striped shirt speaks to us as a screenshot of a March 14, 2020, New York Times article comes into view. The photo shows a man standing in front of tall shelves stocked with boxes, hand sanitizer, cleaning wipes and other products. The headline and sub headline read, "He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them. Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks."

Man with a mustache speaks to us. Next to him is an illustration of a man sitting at a desk with four screens showing different graphs.

Woman wearing a colorful button-down top speaks to us from a home office interior.

Split screen shows a woman on the left speaking to us. On the right is a vertical bar chart labeled “last 30 years.” A short gold bar labeled “Gold” is marked at 280%. A taller gray bar labeled “DOW” stands beside it, marked at “839%.”

Woman standing in front of a purple background raises her eyebrows as if she is about to tell us something.

Man holds his fists up, explaining the three digital art photos next to him. The first is a depiction of two people holding up glasses of wine at a restaurant. The second is a woman holding books in front of a school. The third is a woman standing in front of a house looking at a yard sign that reads, “For rent, $900/mo.”

Black and white photo. In the foreground is a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, labeled Secretary of the Treasury, 1861. In the background are Union soldiers during the Civil War standing next to a large cannon.

Smiling woman closes her eyes and clasps her hands next to a man explaining something to us.

On a split screen, a man speaks to the camera. To his left is the digital art of a stack of documents that are labeled, “CBO. Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from October 2011 Through December 2011.

Fisheye lens shot of the Pointe à Callière Museum of Archeology and History showing a tall cylindrical building with a decorative glass fan sticking out midway. A narrow rectangular building with vertical windows hugs the other building on 1 side.

Teenage girl looks at camera, speaking. Caption. From government power.

Woman looks slightly up and points at camera. Next to her are a few file folders and the backdrop is a closeup of file folder labels. Caption. I saved receipts and cancelled checks.

Low shot looking up at a young woman writing on a legal pad with a calm expression on her face. Caption. Remember the differences between a need and a desire.

Closeup of a man with white hair and mustache wearing a black suit with a light blue collared shirt and red tie in front of an illuminated blue window background. Caption. New rules come out of Washington every day.

Closeup of Black woman, eyebrows raised, looking into camera. Caption. We'll face challenges parents never had to face.

Wide shot of a car passing through an intersection with traffic lights. Caption. We met with Hu Jia.

Black woman with headscarf, speaking off camera in a recorded interview. Caption. the whole place covered with steam.