Let’s face it: trains kinda suck in America. They’re slow, expensive, and just don’t exist in many parts of the country. The simple reason for this is because the US is so sparsely populated. Aside from here, here, and here, cities just aren’t close enough together to make train travel faster or cheaper than plane travel. When cities are within…
This is the symphony of the seas: an 1,188 feet long, 8,880 person, 18 deck, 7 neighborhood beast of a cruise ship that makes the Titanic look like a kayak. It cost $1.4 billion dollars but cruise ships only lasts about 25 years; 25 years of constant cleaning and maintenance, plus an enormous amount of food, fuel, fees and employees.…
Brendan: If you’ve seen any of our past videos, it’s no surprise that, here at PLANifax, we are big fans of active transportation. Megan: It’s a fun and healthy way of getting around. Brendan: Sure that’s nice and all, but here at PLANifax, we are all about that green. Megan: Like the environment? Brendan: No, like cold hard cash baby…
This is a Wendover Productions video made possible by Audible. So I recently went down the rabbit hole of looking at old flight schedules. Airlines used to publish these physical brochures with their fares and flight times, and when looking at this American Airlines one from 1967 I noticed something interesting. This flight between New York and LA was scheduled…
Hi, I’m Jack Plunkett. Today we’re going to talk about the transportation and supply chain industries. Now, we’re putting transportation and supply chain together in this regard because they’re so tightly interlinked. Transportation is either moving people, like in airlines, or it’s moving goods like freight. And the supply chain and the transportation sector have become so tightly intertwined that…
Hi, I’m Jack Plunkett. Today we’re going to talk about the global automobile industry. Now this is a huge industry with already one billion cars and light trucks on the road around the world, and the global industry selling between 80 and 100 million new cars and light trucks yearly. Now, like any other industry, what the auto industry would…
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hello I'm Nariman behravesh chief economist of IHS markets as we look at the global economy in 2019 what we're gonna observe is an economy that's whose growth is peaking the growth around the world is unsynchronized and it's quite vulnerable so every year we do our top 10 predictions for the coming year and our top 10 are as…
globally 100 billion tons of material is mined every year for modern consumption today over half the world's conventional oil reserves have been burned off we're rapidly running out of precious and rare earth metals the lungs of the earth are rainforests that give us the oxygen we need to breathe a rapidly disappearing because of her increasing demand for…
welcome friends to another edition of economic update a weekly program devoted to the economic dimensions of our lives jobs incomes debts those are our children our own and those looming down the road I'm your host Richard wolf I've been a professor of economics all my adult life and I put these updates together to give another perspective on…