# Economics Explained: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-02, Economics Explained has 2,890,000 subscribers, 385,913,547 total views, and 456 videos. It ranks #19,479 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Economics Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Economics Explained is “Why Argentina Wants the World’s Corrupt Billionaires”, a long-form video published Nov 1, 2026.
- These are Economics Explained’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Nov 10, 2025 and Nov 1, 2026 (46 long-form videos and 2 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 559,577. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Australia May Have Just Solved The Housing Crisis” (1,769,830 views, Oct 1, 2026). Least viewed: “Are the Olympics Predicting an Economic Disaster in LA?” (28,432 views, May 19, 2026).
- Median length: 16:50 for 46 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Economics Explained’s consecutive uploads were a median of 6 days apart (shortest gap 2 days, longest 19 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 3, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Why Argentina Wants the World’s Corrupt Billionaires](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/deQXeIhyhc4/) | 2026-11-01 | Long-form | 295,884 | 16:31 | 0.62x |
| [How China Is Restarting Its Economy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/vQodCxq7b9g/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 675,995 | 13:50 | 0.95x |
| [How Old Money Kills Economies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/2a0veEb3znU/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 743,205 | 15:22 | 0.83x |
| [Living Paycheck to Paycheck? So Is Everyone Else](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/FZWLIOKUcIo/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 861,003 | 17:31 | 0.96x |
| [What Happens When AI Is Free ... South Korea Tried It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/ZRNQ1QgbDj4/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 588,845 | 12:30 | 0.68x |
| [Can $55,000 Solve The Population Crisis?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/b64TPQDSpYQ/) | 2026-10-05 | Long-form | 705,767 | 16:18 | 0.81x |
| [Australia May Have Just Solved The Housing Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/QtZfbWOkoIY/) | 2026-10-01 | Long-form | 1,769,830 | 14:09 | 1.97x |
| [Why Europe's GDP Growth Is Crippling Its Economy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/rqlDPfdXQOk/) | 2026-09-27 | Long-form | 983,709 | 15:33 | 1.27x |
| [Has Inequality Ever Been Worse?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/G2b0JOgLpeg/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 807,789 | 19:44 | 1.23x |
| [Finally a Country Is Taxing Its Billionaires](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/jknb1YE6zdY/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 1,419,646 | 13:30 | 2.48x |
| [Economics Is A Junk Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/TsfsoaNFyTQ/) | 2026-09-06 | Long-form | 1,234,525 | 17:07 | 2.21x |
| [Why New Zealand Is the Only Safe Haven Left](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/4kSd7zyXGo0/) | 2026-08-29 | Long-form | 1,178,212 | 13:19 | 2.1x |
| [Unfortunately, AI Might Be Turning Us Into Peasants](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/i_kzsY5Msbw/) | 2026-08-24 | Long-form | 569,962 | 23:17 | 1.09x |
| [Almost No One Realizes This About AI Data Centers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/iI3tT6CCVH8/) | 2026-08-16 | Long-form | 574,558 | 18:21 | 1.24x |
| [How Kim Jong Un "Accidentally" Fixed North Korea's Economy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/-OI7CL_kyUo/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 738,053 | 17:56 | 1.93x |
| [The End Game of UK Economics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/RYdGEYkYCQ4/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 549,192 | 20:36 | 1.44x |
| [Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/PRJra_9RLf0/) | 2026-07-26 | Long-form | 257,002 | 16:01 | 0.76x |
| [Cuba Was Barely Holding On… And Then The Oil Ran Out](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/72pGczK3j7s/) | 2026-07-14 | Long-form | 236,211 | 21:02 | 0.68x |
| [Why Is the World In So Much Debt](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/b665H_Tywg0/) | 2026-06-29 | Long-form | 339,850 | 28:56 | 0.88x |
| [How Has Nepal Been Going?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/Efwafl87Yb8/) | 2026-06-21 | Long-form | 501,437 | 22:08 | 1.22x |
| [The Economy Gave Up On Young People ... It's Starting To Show](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/J9PzjUlyzAY/) | 2026-06-14 | Long-form | 1,132,505 | 20:00 | 2.76x |
| [How AI Will Play Out, Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/Figev-6iaE0/) | 2026-06-07 | Long-form | 424,174 | 47:32 | 1.03x |
| [What Does the Iran War Mean for Iran?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/hiCPt7jJjBI/) | 2026-06-04 | Short | 35,186 | 1:05 | - |
| [Iran's Economy Was Collapsing … And Then The War Started](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/6gSfq7kGZhE/) | 2026-06-02 | Long-form | 336,257 | 16:12 | 0.89x |
| [Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ... Literally](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/JwklXWLy2UA/) | 2026-05-28 | Long-form | 150,708 | 19:19 | - |
| [Dubai Was An Economic Miracle, Then They Got Bombed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/OkiZE8n5Jdo/) | 2026-05-22 | Long-form | 858,516 | 20:41 | 2.03x |
| [Are the Olympics Predicting an Economic Disaster in LA?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/guF76Sm11cQ/) | 2026-05-19 | Short | 28,432 | 1:43 | - |
| [No One Is Talking About the "Winners" of the Iran War](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/rId69udDbwM/) | 2026-05-15 | Long-form | 239,858 | 19:58 | 0.58x |
| [Why Are Countries Abandoning OPEC?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/wDAY1NNFtTg/) | 2026-05-11 | Long-form | 355,158 | 13:48 | 0.87x |
| [The Iran War Looks Very Different from Europe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/vhD3IEpIAAk/) | 2026-05-06 | Long-form | 417,897 | 17:42 | 1.02x |
| [Does Taiwan Have Dutch Disease?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/3xWGfniQMdQ/) | 2026-04-28 | Long-form | 402,748 | 16:49 | 0.97x |
| [Uruguay Has No Resources, But They're Rich](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/qDVPFAuBSXw/) | 2026-04-17 | Long-form | 426,242 | 20:20 | 1.08x |
| [MIT Just Found The Cause Of The AI Bubble](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/1zlD0K09IKE/) | 2026-04-09 | Long-form | 742,657 | 16:52 | 1.79x |
| [How to Rebuild an Economy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/01f3r_DnOPc/) | 2026-03-26 | Long-form | 209,285 | 19:09 | - |
| [Why $129,000 Is the New Poor](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/0B4tgG-CGXU/) | 2026-03-22 | Long-form | 614,172 | 13:50 | 1.26x |
| [What Happens When No One Wants to Trade With You?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/5xEX3LyIp04/) | 2026-03-16 | Long-form | 1,022,790 | 28:21 | 2.72x |
| [Has the World Become Uninsurable?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/Gi1zk8rLqNI/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 220,746 | 15:50 | 0.59x |
| [Finland's Happy Little Economic Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/Nb9uJD-XDVQ/) | 2026-02-22 | Long-form | 364,469 | 15:26 | 0.74x |
| [How Economics Has Changed Dating](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/fhErhFyyCno/) | 2026-02-14 | Long-form | 266,005 | 13:45 | - |
| [Did Pensions Destroy France?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/Cj_a4REfBxU/) | 2026-02-08 | Long-form | 748,407 | 22:12 | 1.24x |
| [How Much Does Clickbait Cost the Global Economy?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/pMqyg1cDk9I/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 226,443 | 14:06 | - |
| [Why Essential Workers Are Going Extinct](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/gjq024RqV3o/) | 2026-01-25 | Long-form | 608,156 | 15:19 | 1.01x |
| [The Simple Genius of Morocco's Economic Rise](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/4YHuaa8Jr2A/) | 2026-01-16 | Long-form | 651,407 | 20:42 | 1.1x |
| [The Degrowth Paradox](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/xSo_jDhKItU/) | 2026-01-02 | Long-form | 292,057 | 15:59 | 0.54x |
| [Did China Just Drop The Ball On Global Dominance?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/lDqYA11oA9w/) | 2025-12-19 | Long-form | 387,115 | 15:14 | 0.71x |
| [A Short Story About Why You Cannot Buy A House](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/xpEBcSE9Ipc/) | 2025-11-30 | Long-form | 599,739 | 12:07 | 1.1x |
| [The $400 Trillion Problem No One Wants to Talk About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/0zGzWrin00w/) | 2025-11-16 | Long-form | 652,540 | 16:23 | 1.2x |
| [The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics: Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@economicsexplained/videos/u4hZAMp25s4/) | 2025-11-10 | Long-form | 497,729 | 18:08 | 0.92x |

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