If the economy is so bad, why are stock markets booming?
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 Published On Oct 21, 2025

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:17 How did we get here?
09:16 Why did the story of big Firm
competition fail?
09:23 Sponsor
14:05 Are giant monopolies actually making our economies worse?
16:32 What can we do to fix our economies?

Attribution:
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.
Stock footage and others clips by Getty

Written by Alejandro Iribas De La Puerta and Dr. Joeri Schasfoort
Edited by VNKR Studies

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