Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Intro to Economics
- Season 1 Specialization and Trade
- Season 1 Economic Systems and Macroeconomics
- Season 1 Supply and Demand
- Season 1 Macroeconomics
- Season 1 Productivity and Growth
- Season 1 Inflation and Bubbles and Tulips
- Season 1 Fiscal Policy and Stimulus
- Season 1 Deficits & Debts
- Season 1 What's all the Yellen About? - Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
- Season 1 Money and Finance
- Season 1 The 2008 Financial Crisis
- Season 1 Recession, Hyperinflation, and Stagflation
- Season 1 Economic Schools of Thought
- Season 1 Imports, Exports, and Exchange Rates
- Season 1 Globalization and Trade and Poverty
- Season 1 Income and Wealth Inequality
- Season 1 Marginal Analysis, Roller Coasters, Elasticity, and Van Gogh
- Season 1 Markets, Efficiency, and Price Signals
- Season 1 Price Controls, Subsidies, and the Risks of Good Intentions
- Season 1 Market Failures, Taxes, and Subsidies
- Season 1 Environmental Econ
- Season 1 Economics of Education
- Season 1 Revenue, Profits, and Price
- Season 1 Monopolies and Anti-Competitive Markets
- Season 1 Game Theory and Oligopoly
- Season 1 Behavioral Economics
- Season 1 Labor Markets and Minimum Wage
- Season 1 The Economics of Healthcare
- Season 1 The Economics of Death
- Season 1 Taxes
- Season 1 The Underground Economy
- Season 1 The Economics of Immigration
- Season 1 Foreign Aid and Remittance
- Season 1 The Economics of Happiness
Crash Course Economics - Season 1 Episode 7 Inflation and Bubbles and Tulips
2.00 10 minutes In which Adriene and Jacob teach you about how and why prices rise. Sometimes prices rise as a result of inflation, which is a pretty normal thing for economies to do. We'll talk about how across the board prices rise over time, and how economists track inflation. Bubbles are a pretty normal thing for humans to do. One item, like tulips or beanie babies or houses or tech startups experience a rapid rise in prices. This is often accompanied by speculation, a bunch of outrageous profits, and then a nasty crash when the bubble bursts. People get excited about rising prices, and next thing you know, people are trading their life savings for a tulip bulb.
