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1 Why is Five Guys so expensive?

The first time I have ever went to five guys I had about $20 to my name. I figured how expensive could a burger and fries and be. I walked in, ordered, and g…

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2 Is 1 crore rupees a lot of money?

If you keep Rs 1 crore in the bank you will earn around Rs 70,000 a month interest. Around 20% or Rs 14,000 will go toward paying income tax. With Rs 1 crore…

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3 How do the wealthy stay wealthy?

Next time you board an airplane, I want you to check this out… If you’ve ever flown before, think about what you first see when you start boarding. You have…

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4 Is the American middle class disappearing?

Yes. For me, the most obvious single example of this phenomenon is… The Simpsons. When the Simpsons began, the overarching joke of the series was that the Si…

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5 If almost everyone can learn programming for free, why is the salary relatively very high?

Because almost no one cares about programming. Don’t get me wrong. Everyone looooooves the idea of sitting around all day and pushing buttons and making bank…

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6 What are the key differences between the Ivy League schools, and which of them have the strongest economics departments?

If you look at the top 10 rated universities in America in 1925, the list looks like this:University of ChicagoHarvardColumbiaYaleWisconsinPrincetonJohns Hop…

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7 Is a CEO 100 times more talented than a typical employee to justify the such large compensation?

No, but a CEO can easily add 1,000 times to the value of the company with a decision made in 20 seconds than a typical employee might add in a year. Take Tim…

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8 Why does a truck driver in the US earn so much?

I work around 70 hours a week. Some weeks, I get to go home for a day. I'm one of the lucky ones…many drivers don't. They're stuck on the road, sleeping in t…

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9 Why do middle class people stay middle class?

‘Mr Jain, invest in this blue-chip stock and forget for years to come.’ My father's friend, a stock-broker, gave him an excellent tip, two decades back. He p…

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10 How do people afford to live in very isolated areas of the United States?

I live in the rural South.Gas is cheaper here than the suburbs or cities.Taxes are much lower here than they are in the suburbs or cities.Land is incredibly,…

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11 Why are most people broke?

Dumb Debt: You can see broke-people have iPhones and cars. They buy what they can’t afford to impress people they don’t like. In doing this, they either wast…

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12 Why is Pakistan not developing?

I could spend an eternity listing reasons for this lack of development but I will have to settle at just talking about the main reasons. First of all the sta…

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13 Why do business people fly the expensive business class if the goal of businesses is to minimize cost?

14 Why is India a superpower and China a developing country?

15 Donald Trump has a degree from Wharton. If he is a bad POTUS, why does he have such a prestigious degree?

16 Is it true that wages in Russia are very low and the cost of living is very high?

17 Why can't America produce cheaper goods than China?

18 Are the prices of an iPhone justifiable?

19 Which pictures truly show the power of money?

20 Who really holds the power to acquire wealth?

21 Why don’t more people move to Wyoming?

22 When did aluminum become cheap?

23 Is Norway really that rich?

24 Why don't underprivileged people just work harder to get out of their situation?

25 In 76 years, I've never seen inflation this high. Does anyone have an opinion other than it's because of Biden?

26 How else is wealth created besides labor?

27 Was Paul Krugman the best student in his cohort at MIT?

28 What is the concept of a poverty trap?

29 Does money really buy happiness?

30 I paid Rs. 20 to a shoe polish wala in Dadar station. Given the number of people travelling everyday we can expect that he polishes at least 100 shoes a day. Does it mean that his income is at least Rs. 480000 a year?

31 What is the best example of the law of unintended consequences?

32 Why are most people never prepared for a recession?

33 How are the nine million residents of the Saudi "The Line" city going to earn their living?

34 Almost every government bond has a negative return, yet governments issue bonds for billions. Why would anyone buy these?

35 Why is gold expensive? Why can't we consider gold as other metals like iron, aluminum, and silver?

36 Why is gold so valuable as an element?

37 Why do stores charge more for healthy food than unhealthy food? Is organic food more costly to produce?

38 Why is the rich getting richer day by day and the poor getting poorer?

39 What is the future of cryptocurrency?

40 How come Finland is so rich while it has no natural resources to speak of?

41 How do the rich earn money if it’s not exchanging their time for money?

42 Is being a cashless society the only requirement to end corruption?

43 What made New York City so powerful?

44 How did rich families become wealthy?

45 How do low-wage workers afford to live in NYC?

46 Which Nobel prizes were undeserved?

47 How do I explain to my 7-year-old kid when she asks why we can’t just print a lot of money so that everybody will be happy?

48 Why aren't Czechs moving to Germany and Austria in masses when it would dramatically increase their standard of living, purchasing power, and so forth?

49 If honesty is the best policy, why do most of the honest people remain poor and middle class, but dishonest people get rich?

50 Why is it hard for American factories to compete with foreign factories that use less skilled labor for manufacturing tasks?

51 If Italians in Italy don’t earn much, how do they afford to eat out most of the time?

52 Is there another financial crash coming up?

53 Why should America let EU companies export to the US with almost no tax or tariff while they charge American companies a 30% VAT, essentially a 30% tariff?

54 What can be the adverse effects on the Indian economy if the rupee strengthens against the dollar?

55 What are some facts that only rich people know?

56 What's the difference between a rich man in Nigeria and in the United States?

57 What will be the cause of the next financial crisis?

58 Why can or can't Canada win a trade war with the United States?

59 Which countries are rich but the people are poor?

60 Why does farming not work well in a free market?

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