#  @financial Financial Historian Financial Historian posts on YouTube about money, finance, history, financial education the most. 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But some of the most devastating conflicts in history were fought with currencies. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden economic battles that never made it into your school textbooks from the British pounds fight for survival after the First World War to the United States secret campaigns to protect the dollar to the silent currency collapses that brought entire economies to their knees. This is not just economic history its financial education that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Qo9HjF8Omc) 2025-08-13T17:54Z 147K followers, 28.4K engagements "The REAL Reason Lehman Brothers COLLAPSED Overnight When Lehman Brothers collapsed in [----] $600 billion vanished and the world discovered how fragile the global financial system really was. But this wasnt an accident it was the logical result of decades of deregulation leverage and illusion. This episode of The Financial Historian exposes how the [----] financial crisis began why Lehman was allowed to fail and how that single decision reshaped capitalism. From subprime mortgages and reckless Wall Street greed to the massive bailouts that followed this is the story of how money and power fused" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hOc_R1-Jko) 2025-10-09T15:00Z 147K followers, 12.8K engagements "The Rothschilds of the East: The Dynasty History Tried to Forget They built an empire without a crown ruling Asia not through armies but through credit trade and opium. The Sassoons were refugees who became one of the wealthiest families in the world the Rothschilds of the East. From Baghdad to Bombay from Shanghai to London they financed Britains empire powered global trade and quietly shaped the modern financial system. But behind their success was a darker truth a fortune built on the worlds first great addiction. This is the untold story of how exile became empire and how one forgotten" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UyzNHoMFCs) 2025-11-21T16:30Z 147K followers, 28.8K engagements "What If Money Didnt Mean Debt Every dollar in your pocket is someone elses debt. Thats the hidden design of our financial system. Banks create money when they issue loans. Governments create money when they sell bonds. The result A treadmill that only runs if debt keeps growing fueling inflation inequality and endless financial crises. But does money have to mean debt In this episode of The Financial Historian we dig into the economic history of money and power to show the alternatives. From Mesopotamian debt jubilees to Englands tally sticks from Lincolns debt-free greenbacks to Switzerlands" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OAe7ackGeg8) 2025-09-22T15:00Z 147K followers, 40.7K engagements "Thomas Piketty: The Scholar of Inequality Inequality didnt explode overnight it compounded quietly for centuries. For decades we were told that inequality was a temporary side effect of growth that markets would correct themselves and that hard work would eventually catch up with wealth. In this episode of The Financial Historian we examine how economist Thomas Piketty shattered that comforting story by doing something radically simple: looking at centuries of data instead of decades. What he found wasnt ideology or opinion it was a structural pattern that explains why wealth keeps" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aLJigWThshI) 2026-01-30T16:00Z 147K followers, 60.5K engagements "How Religion Funded the Age of Exploration The modern world wasnt discovered by brave explorers it was financed by power legitimacy and belief. Before stock markets central banks or global corporations there was an institution that learned how to turn moral authority into geopolitical leverage. This documentary explores how religion specifically the Catholic Church became the hidden financial infrastructure of the Age of Exploration. Not by paying for ships but by reducing risk legalizing conquest and transforming violence into lawful expansion. From papal decrees that divided the world to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ijz1wYs6L5w) 2026-02-10T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "Ibn Khaldun: The North African Genius Who Invented Economic Cycles Six centuries before modern economics one man explained why every economy rises and why it always falls. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the work of Ibn Khaldun the North African thinker who identified economic cycles long before charts models or central banks existed. By observing the rise and collapse of states firsthand he realized that wealth power and prosperity follow predictable patterns driven by incentives social cohesion and human behavior. This isnt abstract philosophy its a clear-eyed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TGLL5r5ASM) 2026-01-17T16:00Z 147K followers, 74.6K engagements "Feudalism 2.0: The Economic System That Never Died Feudalism is usually treated as a dead system buried with castles kings and medieval landholdings. But feudalism was never really about armor or titles. It was about who owned what mattered. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore Feudalism [---] the quiet return of an economic structure based not on violence but on dependency without ownership. A system where access replaces possession stability replaces mobility and participation increasingly requires permanent payment. This isnt a story about nostalgia or ideology. Its a story" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F-23IN3wFF0) 2026-02-09T16:00Z 147K followers, 35.1K engagements "The Rothschild fortune vs. todays billionaires The #Rothschild fortune vs. todays #billionaires Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money Rothschilds banking system banks cash flow debt dollar economics finance finance documentary finance explained finance tips financial education financial freedom financial history financial management financial wellness history of money how money works how to make money hyperinflation imf inflation inflation explained investing investing for beginners money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HtF_r3plmHI) 2025-09-20T23:02Z 147K followers, 31.5K engagements "Joseph Schumpeter: The Prophet of Creative Destruction Capitalism doesnt grow by building it grows by destroying. Innovation is often sold as progress without cost. But history tells a colder story. In this episode of The Financial Historian we examine the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter the economist who understood capitalism more honestly than most: as a system that creates wealth by wiping out what came before it. Factories replace craftsmen. Platforms erase industries. Cities rise decay and are abandoned not because something went wrong but because the system is working exactly as designed." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jZda3YVXW3w) 2026-02-06T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The Hidden Financial Battle Behind World War I World War I wasnt only fought in the trenches it was fought in the banks on balance sheets and in the hidden corridors of money and power. The gold standard collapsed governments borrowed on an unprecedented scale and ordinary citizens were persuaded to fund the war through patriotic bonds. This moment changed economic history forever shaping the modern financial system global crises and the very meaning of real wealth. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden financial mistakes behind the First World War the economic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rlqfq5YmgO8) 2025-08-23T18:09Z 147K followers, 114.9K engagements "The Hidden Cost of Military Power: How Were Ancient Armies Really Paid Empires werent destroyed on the battlefield. They were destroyed at the payroll desk. For most of human history the greatest challenge facing any empire wasnt conquest it was paying the men who carried out the violence that kept the system alive. Long before central banks income taxes or government debt ancient states had to solve the same problem modern governments still face today: how to fund a permanent military without collapsing the society beneath it. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how ancient" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3xjRPVV2uU) 2026-01-06T16:00Z 147K followers, 13.5K engagements "The Financial Genius of Sun Tzu (That No One Talks About) Sun Tzu didnt just redefine warfare he redefined the economics of survival. His real masterpiece wasnt strategy. It was cost control. For centuries The Art of War has been treated as a military manual or a self-help book for executives. But hidden beneath its iconic lines is a financial philosophy far more advanced than most modern states understand. This video uncovers the economic blueprint inside Sun Tzus thinking how he treated war as a balance sheet logistics as national lifelines and intelligence as the cheapest weapon ever" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hTwBhhrQro) 2025-12-12T17:36Z 147K followers, 170.6K engagements "How Bananas Broke Latin America A fruit company once overthrew a government and the world barely blinked. This is the hidden chapter of economic history: the moment when corporate power in Latin America grew so large that it reshaped borders toppled presidents controlled national economies and invented the very idea of the banana republic. This video uncovers how the United Fruit Company built a shadow empire across Central America using land monopolies railroads lobbying propaganda and at times the military might of the United States. Its a story of money and power colliding in the most" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3cVwucqUipQ) 2025-11-26T16:09Z 147K followers, 12K engagements "The Economic Empire of the Mesopotamian Gods Before money before markets before governments the gods ran the economy. And for two thousand years the temples of Mesopotamia controlled the wealth labor credit and power of the ancient world. This documentary reveals the worlds first true financial system: an economy built not by merchants or monarchs but by priests. Long before modern banking or taxation the temples of Sumer Akkad Babylon and Assyria acted as landlords lenders employers accountants storage vaults regulators and political power centers. This episode exposes how early" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5YAJwss9E5g) 2025-12-04T16:00Z 147K followers, 16K engagements "Samuelson and the Birth of Modern Economics At some point economics stopped talking about people and started talking like physics. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how Paul Samuelson reshaped economics in the 20th century and quietly gave birth to the modern financial worldview that still governs markets central banks and policy today. By turning economics into a mathematical model-driven discipline Samuelson gave it unprecedented authority but also changed who economics was for and who it left behind. This video breaks down Samuelsons core ideas in plain language" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Qxxaabw5Q8) 2026-01-09T16:01Z 147K followers, 12K engagements "Who Got Rich During the Black Plague The Black Plague didnt just kill millions it quietly created fortunes that reshaped Europe for centuries. Behind the horror of the plague lies an economic story almost no one talks about: the families merchants nobles and institutions that used catastrophe to accumulate land power and generational wealth. This documentary reveals the real winners of one of historys greatest collapses from the early Medici bankers and the Visconti dukes of Milan to rising English gentry families powerful monastic orders and the merchant dynasties of the Hanseatic League." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B0mDZKsato0) 2025-11-25T16:00Z 147K followers, 33K engagements "Capitalism vs Socialism: What Actually Worked (and What Didnt) When ideology meets reality history keeps the score not the slogans. Capitalism vs. Socialism was never just an economic argument. It was a global experiment that shaped wars revolutions depressions and the modern financial system itself. This video takes you above the noise a 30000-foot view of how both systems actually worked how they failed how they adapted and how they built the world we live in today. From the rise of industrial capitalism to the Soviet experiment from the Great Depression to Chinas state capitalism this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CPHe0wYfTK0) 2025-11-17T16:00Z 147K followers, 137.8K engagements "The Forgotten Laws of Money: From Gresham to Cantillon Most people think money is random that inflation debt and financial crises just happen. But history tells a different story. Money follows laws. Not the kind written by governments but deeper older rules that empires ignore at their own peril. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the forgotten laws of money from Greshams Law in the 1500s to Goodharts Law in the 1970s and show how they still rule your life today. Youll see why bad money always drives out good why crises push people into sound assets why money printing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CzlCQ0ClbD4) 2025-09-25T15:00Z 147K followers, 74.3K engagements "The Real Power Of Davos: Who Really Runs the World Economy Every January the most powerful people on Earth meet in a snow-covered town to save the world. But Davos isnt a summit its a system. The World Economic Forum was built to unite global power under one quiet idea: control the future by defining what progress means. This episode uncovers how a private foundation in Switzerland became the most influential network on the planet shaping markets governments and even morality itself. From the birth of the World Economic Forum in [----] to todays Great Reset this is the untold story of how Davos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D2F4ZnfBHLw) 2025-11-03T16:00Z 147K followers, 16.1K engagements "How Debt Became the Most Profitable Product in History What if I told you the most profitable product in history isnt oil gold or technology its debt From clay tablets in Mesopotamia to the Dutch bond markets from the Bank of England to Wall Street debt has been carefully engineered into the foundation of our financial system. It funds wars props up governments drives consumer culture and quietly transfers wealth from the many to the few. This video traces the hidden history of debt: how it became the backbone of empires how the IMF and World Bank turned it into a tool of global control how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dhr4q8-J0m8) 2025-09-04T15:00Z 147K followers, 137.7K engagements "Bubbles Never Feel Like Bubbles. Here's Why. The most dangerous moment in a financial bubble isnt the crash. Its the moment when doubt disappears. Every major market bubble in history followed the same pattern: rising prices growing confidence and a shared belief that this time is different. In this episode of The Financial Historian we break down the psychology behind economic bubbles not through charts or predictions but through human behavior. From tulips to dot-coms to todays AI-driven market optimism this video explains why bubbles never feel irrational while youre inside them how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FDp_f2FhtDs) 2026-01-08T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "How America Rebuilt Capitalism After the Gilded Age When inequality becomes impossible to ignore nations have a choice: collapse under the weight of concentrated wealth or rewrite the rules of the game. America has been here before. At the end of the Gilded Age the United States was drowning in financial inequality corporate monopolies political corruption and violent market crashes. But instead of breaking the country fought back launching one of historys most ambitious attempts to reform capitalism from within. This video explores how America confronted the power of the robber barons built" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=J5IT9bF9idY) 2025-11-24T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "If Every Country Is in Debt Whos the Creditor Every country on Earth is drowning in debt but nobody ever asks the real question: if everyone owes money whos the creditor The United States owes over $38 trillion. Europe owes $14 trillion. Japan owes $9 trillion. Global debt now exceeds $315 trillion nearly three times the size of the world economy. Yet somehow the system keeps running. How Because governments arent trying to pay their debts off theyre rolling them over forever. In this episode of The Financial Historian we reveal how modern economies turned debt into money itself and why the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q3UI39q-M0Q) 2025-10-27T15:01Z 147K followers, 1.3M engagements "How the Maya Turned Chocolate Into Money Before gold before coins before banks an entire civilization ran its economy on chocolate. For the ancient Maya cacao wasnt a luxury or a dessert. It was financial infrastructure. A currency you could count store tax and trade. A medium of exchange so stable and so trusted that it powered markets paid soldiers settled debts and shaped political power across Mesoamerica. This video reveals how a plant became money and why understanding it changes the way we think about value inflation trust and the psychology behind every financial system humans have" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qos3rsYq_WI) 2025-12-11T16:03Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "How Metal Became Money Money didnt begin as a tool for trade it began as a tool for power. Most people are taught that money was invented to fix the problems of barter. That coins emerged to make exchange easier fairer and more efficient. In reality the story is far more unsettling. In this episode of The Financial Historian we trace the true origins of money from early gift economies to bronze silver and stamped coins and reveal why metal became money in the first place. This is a story about scale authority taxation and control. About how money evolved not to simplify trade but to make" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U2_ir5AfDuU) 2025-12-31T16:00Z 147K followers, 18.4K engagements "How the Economy Worked in the Time of Jesus Jesus didnt live in a spiritual vacuum. He lived inside one of historys most unequal economies. Most people imagine the time of Jesus as a distant religious world of sermons and miracles. But for those actually living there daily life was shaped by debt taxation land loss and survival under imperial rule. This video explores how the economy of Roman Judea really worked who controlled wealth how extraction functioned and why economic pressure defined everyday life far more than theology ever did. By examining the financial system of the ancient" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGbjAL50GDs) 2025-12-25T15:39Z 147K followers, 95.2K engagements "Thorstein Veblen: The Economist Who Exposed Conspicuous Consumption Much of modern spending has nothing to do with need and everything to do with being seen. Over a century ago economist Thorstein Veblen exposed a truth that still shapes our financial system today: people dont just buy for utility they buy for status. In this video we explore how Veblen dismantled the idea of the rational consumer and revealed consumption as a social signal a performance driven by hierarchy imitation and comparison. From the excesses of the Gilded Age to modern luxury branding debt and lifestyle inflation" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WTrV9gg530I) 2025-12-19T16:01Z 147K followers, 25.7K engagements "The Indulgence Economy: When Faith Became Transactional There was a moment in history when forgiveness came with a price tag. In the late Middle Ages salvation stopped being only a matter of faith and became something disturbingly transactional. This video explores how papal indulgences evolved from acts of devotion into a scalable revenue system one that transformed belief into liquidity and fear into cash flow. By examining the Church not just as a religious authority but as a transnational institution managing power land charity and enormous financial pressures we uncover how markets" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQwLVoCN2kY) 2025-12-17T17:06Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The Financial Origins of the United States America didnt win its independence on ideals alone it won it on credit foreign loans and the financial rivalries of Europe. The Revolution wasnt just a war. It was an investment and empires were the ones buying in. The Financial Historian unpacks the hidden economic architecture behind the birth of the United States: the secret loans from France and Spain the Dutch bankers who turned rebellion into a credit market and the domestic speculators who built fortunes from collapsing currency. This video reveals how financial desperation shaped diplomacy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_051hZEW-i8) 2025-12-08T16:00Z 147K followers, 27.9K engagements "Why Salt Was Once More Valuable Than Gold There was a time when gold impressedbut salt decided who survived. Long before modern money banking systems or global supply chains the most powerful commodity on Earth wasnt shiny or rare. It was essential. This video explores how salt became one of the most valuable resources in economic history shaping empires fueling wars and triggering revolutions. By tracing salts role in food preservation taxation trade routes and state control we reveal how power has always followed necessitynot luxury. More importantly we connect this forgotten economic truth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a4k8n9FIr_8) 2025-12-16T16:00Z 147K followers, 10.1K engagements "How Persia Used Money to Rule the Ancient World The worlds first empire didnt rise on conquest alone it rose on a financial system so advanced our governments are still copying it today. Long before Wall Street central banks and modern taxation the Achaemenid Persians engineered a fully integrated financial architecture that held together the largest empire on Earth. This documentary reveals how the daric became the first global reserve currency how Darius I built a fiscal machine that powered armies and infrastructure across continents and how the Persian treasury became the blueprint for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a7KX_gtELWE) 2025-12-01T16:00Z 147K followers, 25.2K engagements "Keynes: The Man Who Made Governments Addicted to Debt When the world ran out of money he told governments to print more and they listened. John Maynard Keynes didnt just change economics; he changed how power works. In the ruins of the Great Depression he taught nations that spending could end suffering and that debt could be salvation. But the cure that saved capitalism also made it addicted. This is the story of how one economist turned crisis management into a way of life and how were still living in his experiment. Keyness [----] book The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=duQU4OUuzVQ) 2025-11-14T16:01Z 147K followers, 22.3K engagements "Why Humans Keep Falling for the Same Economic Illusions Every financial collapse begins with the same four words: this time is different. Why do humans keep falling for the same economic illusionsdespite centuries of data crashes and hard-earned lessons This video is a year-end reflection on the patterns we never seem to break. From speculative bubbles to inflationary cycles from faith in permanent growth to belief in total control The Financial Historian explores why economic history keeps repeatingnot because the system fails but because human behavior never really changes. This isnt a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fMenSrrJ0-c) 2025-12-29T16:07Z 147K followers, 23.6K engagements "How the Ottoman Empire Paid for [---] Years of War They fought for six centuries and didnt go bankrupt. No empire in history weaponized money like the Ottomans did. For over [---] years the Ottoman Empire waged near-constant war across Europe the Middle East and North Africa. Yet instead of collapsing under the cost they engineered a financial system that turned conflict into revenue. This documentary reveals the hidden economics behind the empires military machine: the tax-powered cavalry the Janissary system the profitable trade routes the state monopolies and the revenue networks that kept the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g9Adm6JDfHc) 2025-12-03T16:01Z 147K followers, 94.6K engagements "When Pirates Became Legal (And Who Got Rich) The most profitable crime in history wasnt piracy. It was piracy with government approval. For centuries empires didnt just tolerate pirates they licensed them financed them and quietly profited. This video explores how privateers became one of the earliest forms of state-sanctioned outsourcing turning looting into a business model and war into an investment opportunity. By following the money behind letters of marque naval raids and global trade routes we reveal how governments privatized risk socialized rewards and erased the line between" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jaueDlmlRNk) 2025-12-18T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "How Ancient China Invented Paper Money The first major financial revolution didnt happen in Europe it happened in China [---] years before the West even understood the idea. Long before central banks long before the Knights Templar built their credit networks ancient China created something unprecedented: money printed on paper backed by the power of the state rather than the weight of metal. This documentary uncovers how the Tang and Song dynasties engineered the worlds first fiat currency how merchants sparked a financial innovation that reshaped global economics and how overprinting" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m_F9pfbDLfw) 2025-12-02T16:01Z 147K followers, 11K engagements "How Carthage Challenged Rome With Economics Rome didnt defeat Carthage on the battlefield it defeated Carthage in the balance sheet. Before Rome built an empire of legions it faced a rival built on capital trade and global logistics. Carthage wasnt just another ancient city-state; it was a commercial superpower whose economic model challenged Rome long before swords ever clashed. This documentary reveals how the Punic Wars became a test of two competing financial systems one driven by liquidity mercenary forces and maritime wealth and the other driven by national credit citizen mobilization" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oIMZNGkZADY) 2025-12-10T16:08Z 147K followers, 18K engagements "Why China Devalued Its Currency on Purpose (And What It Gained) Most people think a weak currency means a weak country. But Chinas deliberate devaluation of the yuan was not a sign of weakness it was a strategy. By keeping its money cheap China made its exports unstoppable built the factories that turned it into the workshop of the world and quietly financed Americas debt with the dollars it earned. This episode of The Financial Historian breaks down how Chinas currency strategy worked in plain English. Well explain how the Peoples Bank of China pegged the yuan to the dollar bought trillions" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oWElNkMRT3I) 2025-09-15T15:01Z 147K followers, 44.9K engagements "The Venetian Money Empire: How a City Became a Bank Venice didnt conquer the world with armies. It did it by turning trust into moneyand money into power. Long before modern banks central authorities or government bonds a small city built on water discovered something radical: wealth doesnt come from land or gold alone but from credibility. This video explores how Venice transformed trade into finance finance into governance and governance into a system so stable that empires depended on it. By unpacking Venices rise as the worlds first true financial power we reveal how public debt banking" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=osKvPcOhRP8) 2025-12-15T18:57Z 147K followers, 19.4K engagements "How Spices Built the First Global Economy For centuries the world wasnt driven by gold or oil it was driven by flavor. And the race for spices didnt just build fortunes it built the first global economy. Before Wall Street before central banks before modern capitalism the global financial system was forged through pepper cinnamon nutmeg sugar and the brutal corporate empires that controlled them. This video reveals how spices became currency how monopolies shaped nations how early corporations weaponized scarcity and how todays supply chain battles echo the same patterns. From Venice to the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rX6vZwLjyrA) 2025-11-27T16:01Z 147K followers, 28.8K engagements "Adam Smiths Invisible Hand and What He Actually Meant The greatest myth in economic history wasnt created by Adam Smith it was created by the people who needed his words to protect their wealth. For centuries textbooks politicians and corporate strategists have repeated a story about the invisible hand a story Adam Smith never actually told. This video breaks open the real history behind Smiths philosophy revealing how one metaphor was transformed into an ideology that shaped global capitalism. By exploring Smiths world decoding his actual writings and exposing how his ideas were rewritten" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t95gtmUFz_Y) 2025-11-28T16:01Z 147K followers, 64K engagements "The Financial Tricks Governments Use to Keep You Broke Governments say they work for your financial freedom but history tells a different story. From Rome debasing its silver coins to modern inflation bailouts and quantitative easing the real pattern is clear: financial systems are designed to keep the majority broke while wealth and power flow upward. In this episode of The Financial Historian we expose the hidden economic history of how states manipulate money debt and inflation to transfer wealth from the people to the elite. This is financial education you wont get in school sharp lessons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ygV7-D-8ChQ) 2025-08-25T15:01Z 147K followers, 266.1K engagements "Al-Ghazali: The Thinker Who Linked Money to Morality Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali lived during the height of the Islamic Golden Age but his analysis of money morality and power feels like it was written for the 21st century. This video uncovers how a medieval scholar understood the psychology of wealth the danger of corruption and the economic consequences of losing integrity long before modern economics existed. For anyone trying to understand todays financial system inflation speculation or inequality Al-Ghazalis ideas offer a shockingly relevant roadmap. Key Facts & Insights Al-Ghazali argued that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yx3iE0LuxbI) 2025-12-05T16:01Z 147K followers, 570.9K engagements "MK Ultra: The Business of Controlling Minds and Markets They werent just trying to control minds. They were trying to control behavior the most valuable currency in any economy. MK-Ultra wasnt science fiction. It wasnt a rumor. It was a real multimillion-dollar Cold War program designed to test whether human decision-making could be engineered. And while the experiments were brutal and scientifically chaotic the idea behind them that behavior could be shaped predicted and monetized lived on long after the files were burned. In this investigative deep dive we follow the money the institutions" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1sdoVDbf9jM) 2025-11-19T16:00Z 144K followers, 14.1K engagements "How Money Destroyed Ancient Rome Rome didnt just fall to invading armies it collapsed because its money did. The silver denarius once trusted across the empire was debased until it became nearly worthless. Inflation skyrocketed trade broke down and trust in the financial system evaporated. The empire rotted from within and historys greatest power was undone by its own currency crisis. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how the Roman currency collapse set the blueprint for every inflationary disaster since from Weimar Germany to Zimbabwe to todays fiat system. This is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1x15fzvI62s) 2025-08-28T15:00Z 145K followers, 293.7K engagements "The Gunpowder Economy That Still Rules Today Gunpowder didnt just change war it rewired the entire financial system behind it. When gunpowder entered the battlefield it quietly transformed something far more important than tactics: the cost of power. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how gunpowder technology turned war from a seasonal human-scaled conflict into a permanent capital-intensive enterprise and how that shift gave birth to modern taxation public debt inflation and centralized states. This isnt a story about weapons. Its a story about money power and the economic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5wlvnjPDoZY) 2026-01-01T16:13Z 147K followers, 13.1K engagements "The Potato: The Crop That Rewired the Global Economy. The most powerful economic force in history wasnt a machine a bank or a law it was a crop. Long before factories central banks or modern finance a single biological innovation quietly rewired the global economy from the ground up. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how the potato transformed population growth labor markets state power and empire-building and why its success created a hidden fragility that would later devastate millions. This is not a story about food. Its a story about productivity shocks systemic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6-Ljz3UEqjg) 2026-02-03T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "How Hedge Funds Quietly Control America You dont vote for them. You dont see their names on ballots. But they own your home your job your data and sometimes even your politicians. From quiet offices in Manhattan and Greenwich hedge funds have become the most powerful invisible empire in modern America. They dont build products they buy systems. They dont make policy they fund the people who do. In this episode The Financial Historian exposes how hedge funds evolved from cautious investment tools into global power centers controlling everything from housing to politics. Youll learn how they" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6q8LLt_WNN4) 2025-10-21T15:00Z 146K followers, 48.3K engagements "The Disappearing Russian Gold Reserves of [----] In [----] the Russian Empire collapsed and with it one of the largest gold reserves in the world disappeared. Over [----] tons of bullion enough to anchor the ruble and project financial power across continents simply vanished into the chaos of war and revolution. Some went to foreign banks some funded the Bolsheviks and some was looted by generals and smugglers. Most of it was never recovered. This episode of The Financial Historian unpacks how Russias disappearing gold shaped the fate of an empire fueled civil war and still echoes in the way" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7FR1vquu0zk) 2025-08-30T15:00Z 146K followers, 34.5K engagements "The Rothschilds: How One Family Engineered Modern Finance For over a century the Rothschild family stood at the center of money and power. They financed kings underwrote wars built railroads and turned sovereign debt into the backbone of modern economies. Some called them shadow rulers others saw them as the inventors of modern banking. The truth is even more unsettling: the Rothschilds didnt just get rich they engineered the financial system we still live under today. This episode of The Financial Historian explores how Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his five sons created a global network of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANumPQzWOpI) 2025-09-16T15:00Z 146K followers, 16.5K engagements "Charles Ponzi: the scammer who started it all Charles #Ponzi: the #scammer who started it all Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money banks cash flow debt dollar economics finance finance documentary finance explained finance tips financial education financial freedom financial history financial management financial wellness history of money how money works how to make money hyperinflation imf inflation inflation explained investing investing for beginners money money mindset oil personal" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IWsdH4aHlPo) 2025-09-12T16:20Z 145K followers, [----] engagements "How Britains Bankers Financed Its Global Domination Britain didnt just conquer with ships and soldiers it conquered with bankers. From the founding of the Bank of England to the global reach of sterling finance became the empires sharpest weapon. Wars trade and even famines were turned into financial opportunities shaping a world economy still built on those foundations. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how money and power fused to create Britains global domination. Youll learn how the financial system worked behind the scenes of empire what it meant for the people who" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KwVJR6Y6SEM) 2025-08-27T15:45Z 145K followers, 49K engagements "The Peso Crash: The Day Mexico Went Bankrupt In [----] Mexico went from an oil-rich rising power to a bankrupt nation overnight. The peso collapsed banks were frozen and millions of ordinary citizens watched their savings vanish. What happened wasnt just a Mexican tragedy it was the first domino in a global debt crisis that shook Wall Street the IMF and international banks across Europe. This episode of The Financial Historian unpacks how pride oil and debt fueled Mexicos boom why the government seized every private bank in a desperate attempt to stop capital flight and how within a decade" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MS4ZwIyd3_A) 2025-09-08T15:00Z 146K followers, [----] engagements "How the Crusades Built Europes War Economy A holy war that accidentally built Europes first financial system. When the Crusades began they were framed as an act of faith. But behind the sermons vows and sacred promises something far more durable was taking shape. This video explores how medieval Europe transformed religious devotion into a vast economic engine one that mobilized capital created new financial institutions standardized debt and quietly rewired how money power and risk flowed across the continent. By following the Crusades not as battles but as transactions we uncover how land" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpzeoLNk8gM) 2025-12-24T06:00Z 147K followers, 14.5K engagements "How Stock Buybacks Quietly Rigged the Market Once upon a time stock buybacks were a crime. If a company used its own money to inflate its stock price executives could be prosecuted for market manipulation. Today that same practice drives trillions of dollars in shareholder value enriching the few hollowing out the many and redefining capitalism itself. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers how a single rule change in [----] quietly legalized one of the most powerful financial manipulations in history. Well trace the journey from the Great Depression when buybacks were banned to the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PyceIljdnMI) 2025-11-12T16:00Z 146K followers, 16K engagements "How the Mongols Built a War Machine With Trade Not Taxes They didnt tax their people into obedience they made the world move through them. The Mongol Empire built the most efficient war machine in history without income taxes bureaucracies or modern states. Instead they mastered something far more powerful: control over trade movement and access. In this episode of The Financial Historian we dismantle the myth of Mongol chaos and reveal the cold economic logic behind their rise. From the Silk Road to modern shipping chokepoints from horse-mounted empires to oil corridors and global supply" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZhju-DYqY0) 2026-01-26T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The Saudi System: Why Oil Wealth Defeats Elections Oil didnt just create wealth it created immunity. This video breaks down how the House of Saud transformed oil into one of the most durable power structures in modern history. Not through democracy innovation or popular legitimacy but through leverage dependency and financial insulation. This isnt a story about culture or ideology. Its a clear-eyed analysis of how a dynasty positioned itself at the center of the global energy and monetary system and why that position still shapes inflation markets and everyday life far beyond Saudi Arabia." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RpITKxVug28) 2026-01-20T17:13Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "War Bonds: The First Global Financial Scam They called it patriotism. It was actually the first global financial trap. In this cinematic deep dive we uncover how governments turned loyalty into liquidity and taught citizens to bankroll their own manipulation. From the Liberty Bonds of World War I to the Treasury markets of today this is the hidden history of how debt became the worlds most powerful weapon and how the modern financial system was born not in peace but in propaganda. World War I marked the first time ordinary citizens directly funded war through government-issued bonds. U.S." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TCqO6Gj_izI) 2025-11-11T19:36Z 146K followers, [----] engagements "Did the Rothschilds really control wars with loans Did the #Rothschilds really control wars with loans Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TSdPfQar2eo) 2025-09-16T14:04Z 144K followers, [----] engagements "Stories Over Spreadsheets Why Markets Follow Fiction Not Facts Markets dont crash when reality breaks they crash when belief does. Were told markets are driven by data fundamentals and rational analysis. But history shows something far more unsettling: prices often move long before the numbers change. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how stories not spreadsheets have repeatedly driven booms panics and collapses. From 19th-century railway fever to the sudden shock of Black Monday in [----] and from speculative land manias to modern crypto hype cycles this video reveals how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XT7vnJH8y3M) 2026-01-29T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The IMF's Dark History in Latin America Latin America became the IMFs testing ground a region where austerity privatization and debt restructuring were forced on nations in the name of stability. From Mexicos default in [----] to Argentinas collapse in [----] the IMFs dark history in Latin America shows how financial power can strip away sovereignty and trap entire generations in cycles of poverty. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers how the IMF became a shadowy power player protecting banks and creditors while politicians deferred the cost of their mistakes. Its a story of money and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YzmOpbI1LwE) 2025-09-03T15:01Z 146K followers, 36.5K engagements "Water Wars Before Water Wars Were a Thing Water didnt just sustain civilization it decided who ruled it. Long before oil gold or modern finance control over water determined economic power political stability and survival itself. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how ancient societies fought taxed engineered and collapsed around water systems and why those early water wars reveal a pattern that still governs the modern financial system today. This isnt a story about drought or climate panic. Its a story about infrastructure leverage and how control over essential flows" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Lnx86YxkjM) 2026-02-05T16:22Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The Choke Point Strategy That Made Portugal Unstoppable The world didnt become global by accident. It was engineered route by route choke point by choke point. Long before empires ruled continents one small kingdom learned a more powerful lesson: you dont need to own land to dominate trade you need to control movement. This video breaks down how Portugal a marginal European power built the first true global system by turning the ocean into infrastructure. Not through conquest alone but through logistics tolls monopolies and enforced access. This isnt a story about explorers chasing glory. Its" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ftdG1YGGHN0) 2026-01-22T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The Knowledge Economy That Built an Empire Baghdad's Golden Age While much of the world was fragmented and poor one city quietly became the richest on Earth. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore the Abbasid Golden Age and the rise of Baghdad as the most powerful economic and intellectual hub of its time. This is not a story about religion or legend its a story about systems. How deliberate urban design global trade networks financial innovation and investment in knowledge turned Baghdad into a magnet for wealth centuries before modern capitalism. By understanding how this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTr3k8B45zI) 2026-01-16T00:36Z 147K followers, 19.9K engagements "Sun Yat-sen: The Revolutionary Who Tried to Rewrite Chinas Economy Chinas modern economy didnt begin with communism it began with a warning that arrived too early. Before Mao before Marxism took hold one revolutionary tried to redesign Chinas economic future from first principles. This video explores how Sun Yat-sen diagnosed Chinas deepest structural weakness economic dependency and attempted to build a system that could restore sovereignty stability and long-term growth without copying Western capitalism or Soviet socialism. This isnt a story about ideology. Its about infrastructure land" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=it-POkKczBI) 2026-01-23T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "Land: the Original Bitcoin Before Bitcoin before gold before banks there was land. The first currency. The first collateral. The only thing that ever truly held its value. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the oldest story in economics how land became humanitys original store of value the foundation of every empire and the invisible force still controlling global wealth today. From ancient Egypt to blockchain miners from feudal lords to modern landlords the game never really changed only the technology did. Land was the first Bitcoin: scarce finite impossible to print. Every" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=maXvm3YpoQQ) 2025-11-07T16:01Z 145K followers, 15.9K engagements "The U.S.-Saudi deal that changed global money The U.S.-Saudi deal that changed global money Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money banks cash flow credit cards debt dollar economics finance finance documentary finance explained finance tips financial education financial freedom financial history financial management financial wellness history of money how money works how to make money imf inflation explained investing investing for beginners money money mindset oil personal finance rich" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nkly1IuzS8U) 2025-09-09T18:03Z 146K followers, 25.8K engagements "How Merchants Outplayed Kings in Medieval Europe They had no king. No flag. No army. Yet they bent kings starved cities and dictated trade across an entire continent. Long before multinational corporations or global financial institutions a loose network of merchants quietly built one of the most powerful economic systems in history. The Hanseatic League didnt conquer Northern Europe with swords it controlled it through trade routes coordinated markets and collective leverage. This video explores how a merchant cartel outperformed medieval states why rulers depended on it and what its rise" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r1Yc56k3Cbk) 2025-12-22T16:59Z 147K followers, 17.5K engagements "How Dutch Capitalism Changed Finance Forever Before Wall Street before the City of London there was Amsterdam. A city built below sea level that invented the system we still live under: stocks banks speculation and the idea that money could multiply itself through trust. This film uncovers how 17th-century Amsterdam became the birthplace of capitalism how merchants replaced monarchs how credit replaced conquest and how the Dutch East India Company created both the first global empire and the first financial bubble. From tulips to trading floors this is the story of how one small republic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=s09qTPcbbeI) 2025-11-05T16:01Z 146K followers, 12.5K engagements "Enron: The Corporate Giant Built on Lies Enron was once Americas most admired company. By [----] it was the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. This video from The Financial Historian exposes how Enron turned accounting tricks into billion-dollar profits built a cult-like corporate culture of lies and wiped out the savings of [-----] employees all while its executives cashed out millions. From mark-to-market accounting to shell companies from Wall Street hype to government complicity Enron shows how illusions of wealth are manufactured and sold until they collapse. And the warning isnt" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sGlmrMulFF4) 2025-10-02T15:01Z 144K followers, 11K engagements "Why the Post - WWII World Order Was Built This Way The world you live in wasnt shaped by accident it was engineered after catastrophe. In this episode of The Financial Historian we trace the hidden logic behind the postWorld War II world order and explain why the global financial system was built this way. From the ruins of war to the creation of Bretton Woods the dollar-centered system and the quiet tradeoffs that prioritized stability over fairness this video unpacks how money power and fear shaped the modern economic order. This isnt a story about collapse its a story about design. And" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vYR8JjyaCns) 2026-02-02T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements "The Ponzi Scheme That Gave Fraud Its Name The most famous fraud in history wasnt about gold stocks or Wall Street. It was about postage stamps. In [----] Charles Ponzi promised ordinary families in Boston that he could turn $100 into $150 in just [--] days. Neighbors bragged about quick profits crowds lined up outside his office with envelopes of cash and thousands believed they had found the shortcut to the American Dream. In reality Ponzi wasnt investing in international postage coupons at all he was paying old investors with new investors money. Within months his empire collapsed wiping out" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zTJMdzu44DQ) 2025-09-12T15:30Z 145K followers, 11.6K engagements "The mystery of [---] tons of missing Russian gold The mystery of [---] tons of missing Russian gold Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G1yCKuKRt6Y) 2025-08-30T20:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How Napoleon Rewrote Banking to Fund His Empire Napoleon Bonaparte didnt just win battles he rewrote the financial system of France to fund an empire. From the creation of the Banque de France to the franc germinal tax reforms and the use of war as a revenue machine his strategies built a financial backbone that outlived him. This is the untold side of economic history: how money and power worked together to shape the modern world. In this episode of The Financial Historian we dive deep into the economic history behind Napoleons rise the banking reforms currency stabilization tax systems and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GDz5k2stsyw) 2025-08-14T20:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Medici: Bankers Who Invented the Renaissance Economy The Renaissance wasnt just about art and genius. It was about money. Behind Michelangelo Da Vinci and the popes of Rome stood one family: the Medicis. They didnt just fund the Renaissance they invented the modern economy. From banking popes to buying politicians from financing masterpieces to bribing their way back into power the Medici used money to control politics religion and culture itself. This video from The Financial Historian reveals how the Medici Bank became Europes financial engine how Medici popes turned the Vatican into a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GagFwHXQIoQ) 2025-10-07T15:00Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements "Did the Stoics have a financial philosophy Did the #Stoics have a financial #philosophy Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0W5VJmSB4) 2025-08-10T16:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Why temples were the safest banks in history Why temples were the safest banks in history Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GhOWMlOFzf8) 2025-09-07T18:02Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements "1929 [----] and the next crash we wont avoid [----] [----] and the next crash we wont avoid Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H1kmsbztq3c) 2025-09-05T23:02Z 20.4K followers, 10.8K engagements "The Laws Written to Protect Banks Not People Every time a financial crisis hits new laws are passed with promises to protect the public. But history shows the truth: those laws are almost always written to protect the banks not you. From the Bank Charter Act in nineteenth-century Britain to the U.S. Glass-Steagall Act from deposit insurance to the [----] bailouts and the European Stability Mechanism financial legislation has been marketed as stability for citizens but in practice has shielded the financial system itself. In this episode of The Financial Historian we expose how laws like the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HWQ9h0r0Ecc) 2025-09-17T17:04Z 37.4K followers, 14.6K engagements "How rich was Athens at its peak How rich was #Athens at its peak Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iavk7L5tg9w) 2025-08-09T22:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The secret money war behind the trenches The secret money war behind the trenches Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJZoVy-EK7Q) 2025-08-23T18:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The Dark Origin of Vatican Wealth The Vatican is the richest religious institution on earth but its fortune didnt come from miracles. It came from land grabs taxes indulgences secret treaties and banking scandals that would make Wall Street blush. From Constantines gifts of land in the fourth century to the tithe that taxed every medieval family to the sale of indulgences that built St. Peters Basilica the Church turned faith into finance. The Renaissance popes lived like kings partnering with the Medici bankers while Martin Luthers protest exposed indulgences as financial exploitation." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JP8sYPol9Gw) 2025-09-11T15:00Z 45.1K followers, 44K engagements "How Thatcher and Reagan Built the Billionaire World Order They promised to save capitalism and ended up creating the billionaire world order. This video breaks down how Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan turned economic theory from the University of Chicago into a global system that transferred power from governments to markets and from citizens to billionaires. From deregulation tax cuts and privatization to the global spread of neoliberalism through the IMF and the Chicago Boys in Chile this is the untold story of how the 1980s reshaped money power and inequality and why were still living" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JlYHzgLxSMA) 2025-10-06T15:00Z 51.9K followers, 15.7K engagements "How Ponzi promised 50% returns in [--] days How #Ponzi promised 50% returns in [--] days Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4bfVFRVDkU) 2025-09-13T00:55Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "How the U.S. turned war into a business model How the U.S. turned war into a business model Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LCCtiLTOfHw) 2025-08-29T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How did Sparta use money to control its enemies What would #Aristotle do in an economic crisis Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LY7M_541lEs) 2025-08-11T01:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "What really happened at Jekyll Island in [----] What really happened at Jekyll Island in [----] Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MATA20eTlg4) 2025-09-02T14:03Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements "Tariffs: The Hidden Tax Youre Already Paying Tariffs: The Hidden Tax Youre Already Paying Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money #yamashita" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NeKqKRxPzFI) 2025-09-01T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How the dollar became pure trust not gold How the dollar became pure trust not gold Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O0P7-O7_Rek) 2025-08-22T23:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Why banking laws never protect you Why banking laws never protect you Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O5MNc7j0dbY) 2025-09-17T15:21Z 32.8K followers, 12K engagements "Why even geniuses lost fortunes in [----] Why even geniuses lost fortunes in [----] Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OEbY6mkaeAE) 2025-09-19T14:03Z 34.6K followers, 14.7K engagements "Where did money actually begin Spoiler: it wasn't gold. Financial History in [--] seconds Where did money actually begin Spoiler: it wasn't gold. Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PrVdkTUiYFc) 2025-07-30T14:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Did Yamashita really hide tons of gold Did #Yamashita really hide tons of #gold Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RutUesiqHuc) 2025-08-31T14:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How did Spain lose its treasure How did Spain lose its treasure Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rzo8MREv1FA) 2025-08-16T01:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "When America Stole Its Citizens Gold In [----] the U.S. government made it illegal for citizens to own gold. Under threat of prison and massive fines Americans were forced to hand over their savings only to see the dollar devalued weeks later. This video from The Financial Historian uncovers how Roosevelts Executive Order [----] turned private wealth into government profit why banks were saved while ordinary people lost everything and how this precedent still shapes the financial system today. History shows that when the system is in danger the rules of money can change overnight. If they could" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S7hu3UpIZ_w) 2025-10-01T15:01Z 42.6K followers, [---] engagements "How rich would you have been if you owned livestock in Mesopotamia How rich would you have been if you owned livestock in Mesopotamia Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SDjNm2zklP0) 2025-08-17T05:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Why crime families ran their gangs like corporations Why crime families ran their gangs like corporations Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SPAbGUepKGs) 2025-08-27T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How the Rich Protected Their Fortunes in Ancient Times For thousands of years the worlds elite have played a different game with money one they never teach in school. From the palaces of Babylon to the marble halls of Rome the rich knew that wealth wasnt just gold or land it was power leverage and survival. While empires rose and fell their fortunes endured. How In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden strategies ancient elites used to protect their wealth through wars political upheavals and economic collapse. Youll learn how temple estates acted as early banks in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SYsRHlVb33s) 2025-08-12T18:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How did inflation catapult Hitler to power Financial History in [--] seconds How did inflation catapult Hitler to power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TnvFb81M-DQ) 2025-07-31T20:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "The Basel Rules: How Banks Quietly Rewrote Global Finance They were never elected. They dont appear on ballots. Yet from a quiet room in Switzerland they wrote the rules that decide how much risk the entire global banking system can take. The Basel Accords reshaped finance turning regulation into power. What began as a safety measure after one bank collapse in [----] evolved into the invisible architecture that dictates how much your bank can lend how governments fund themselves and why financial crises keep repeating under new names. In this episode of The Financial Historian we break down" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TzoUA_DD6wk) 2025-10-13T15:00Z 56.9K followers, 11.7K engagements "Why the Bolsheviks couldnt find the tsars treasure Why the Bolsheviks couldnt find the tsars treasure Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UQHy6XpF6uU) 2025-08-30T23:02Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements "Did the Templars invent the first credit card Did the #Templars invent the first credit card Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UYxhoaR2eSY) 2025-09-13T16:15Z 30K followers, 13.3K engagements "Peaky Blinders: How Street Gangs Became Corporate Empires The Peaky Blinders werent just street thugs in Birmingham they were the beginning of a larger story about how gangs evolve into business empires. From back-alley rackets to laundering money through betting shops and pubs they built the blueprint for how organized crime professionalizes into finance. And this isnt just about Birmingham. If this gave you a new perspective hit subscribe. History doesnt repeat but if you dont understand it itll crush you all the same. #TheFinancialHistorian #economicHistory #financialEducation" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0FtvGcB2g) 2025-08-26T15:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "1982: the night Mexico told the world we cant pay 1982: the night Mexico told the world we cant pay Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UonOpnC0LUQ) 2025-09-08T14:36Z 23.5K followers, 22.7K engagements "The bankers who built the British Empire The bankers who built the British Empire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V9MoGT4C2ts) 2025-08-28T13:03Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements "How true is the myth of the lost Templar treasure How true is the myth of the lost #Templar #treasure Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHc-Jjs5ALQ) 2025-08-15T13:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "How rich was a Roman senator vs. todays billionaire How rich was a Roman senator vs. todays billionaire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VsdH2lxNei4) 2025-08-08T15:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The dot-com crash explained in [--] seconds U.S. debt just passed $34 trillion why it looks like Rome before collapse Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WWJ_UX6ygXk) 2025-08-21T01:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "How did the dollar become ruler of the global economy How did the dollar become ruler of the global economy Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=X7L2EP3dvj8) 2025-08-18T04:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "When Democracy Became a Business Model Democracy is supposed to be about the people. One person one vote. But somewhere along the way it stopped being just a political system and became a business model. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how elections turned into multi-billion-dollar industries where political parties operate like corporations campaigns work like marketing agencies and your vote is treated like a customer transaction. From ancient Athens to the age of big tech the story of democracy has always been tied to money and power. But in the modern era campaign" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XWaFPYAttMw) 2025-08-15T15:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "What happens if the U.S. cant pay its debt What happens if the U.S. cant pay its debt Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XgRfmZ03wQc) 2025-08-19T20:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Weimar Germany: when bread cost billions Weimar Germany: when bread cost billions Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_lLq5s99fU) 2025-09-10T14:03Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements "Historys Oldest Trick: When Elites Spend The Poor Pay Historys Oldest Trick: When Elites Spend The Poor Pay Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money #taxcuts" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yl6YGcCX8sY) 2025-09-01T22:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How debt turned into the ultimate financial product How debt turned into the ultimate financial product Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YszXmIWva0U) 2025-09-04T23:02Z 20.4K followers, 12.4K engagements "How London bankers ruled the world How London bankers ruled the world Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JI10U1TuA) 2025-08-29T02:02Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements "Romes forgotten trick to stabilize money Romes forgotten trick to stabilize money Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZotlbOwSIA8) 2025-09-05T17:04Z 20.4K followers, 12.9K engagements "How Birmingham gangs built business empires How Birmingham gangs built business empires Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zyj-1v00pjY) 2025-08-26T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What happened to the lost fortune of the Templars What happened to the lost #fortune of the #Templars Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_JhGuJQ4cig) 2025-09-13T23:02Z 28.1K followers, 13.4K engagements "Why finance decided World War I before soldiers did Why finance decided World War I before soldiers did Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #ww1" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_amWUL5XLhY) 2025-08-23T23:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Why finance was Britains greatest weapon Why finance was Britains greatest weapon Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_gzuGgEDbO0) 2025-08-29T00:02Z 13.2K followers, 21.9K engagements "How Greece Almost Lost Everything in [----] Welcome to Financial Historian today we will examine how a modern European nation came within days of financial crisis. The video dives into the economics of the situation where banks shut their doors cash withdrawals were rationed and the country was on the verge of default. The video explains how the economy of european union future almost didn't happen. 💰 Lessons in money debt capital and control told through the rise and fall of those who mastered (or mismanaged) it. Learn how wealth is created lost and weaponized. Because history doesnt repeat" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEQYvEYdxsc) 2025-08-06T07:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Why did the Church fear the Templar banking system Why did the #Church fear the #Templar banking system Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aYQHxg9nZjM) 2025-08-14T20:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Marcus Aurelius With a Credit Card Stoic Finance for Modern Chaos Marcus Aurelius With a Credit Card Stoic Finance for Modern Chaos Welcome to Financial Historian where money power and history collide. Ever wondered how empires financed wars why inflation keeps draining your wallet or how ancient financial systems still shape our economy today We break down the real mechanics behind wealth and collapse from Roman debt crises to modern monetary policy. This is financial history with purpose: decoding past mistakes to build present freedom. 💰 Lessons in money debt capital and control told" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3_cMIIVDBA) 2025-08-03T20:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How bankers secretly designed the Federal Reserve How bankers secretly designed the Federal Reserve Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cSfnpTIIuE4) 2025-09-02T19:19Z 13.2K followers, 19.9K engagements "Who got rich during the medieval pandemic Financial History in [--] seconds Who got rich during the medieval pandemic Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ctjFlwtrb3s) 2025-08-02T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "How governments rig the game against savers How governments rig the game against savers Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cw5ZdWoRy0g) 2025-08-26T01:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Economics Behind the French Revolution The French Revolution wasnt just about liberty equality and fraternity. It began with debt inflation and bread that cost more than wages. By the late 1700s Frances monarchy was drowning in war debt its tax system protected the nobility while crushing the poor and failed harvests pushed food prices beyond reach. When the financial system collapsed the monarchy fell with it. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden economics behind the French Revolution: how a broken tax system and reckless borrowing bankrupted the Crown why" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dCF3aMa9_bk) 2025-09-20T15:01Z 45.1K followers, 34.8K engagements "How the South Sea Bubble Fooled the Worlds Smartest Investors In [----] Britains most powerful men and even Isaac Newton himself were ruined in one of historys greatest financial disasters: the South Sea Bubble. Shares skyrocketed a thousand percent on promises of unimaginable trade riches only to collapse in months wiping out fortunes across the nation. The scandal revealed how governments banks and elites fuel economic bubbles and how ordinary investors are always left holding the bag. In this episode of The Financial Historian we break down how the South Sea Company turned national debt into" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dG8EmDBcaog) 2025-09-18T16:47Z 40K followers, 27.1K engagements "The legal loopholes that save banks every time The legal loopholes that save banks every time Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dcEcMJ2zyMA) 2025-09-17T22:38Z 32.8K followers, 11.5K engagements "How the Yakuza turned crime into corporations How the Yakuza turned crime into corporations Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eK94kkZgn5E) 2025-09-06T15:42Z 23.5K followers, 12.5K engagements "What finally financially destroyed Ancient Greece What finally financially destroyed #Ancient #Greece Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=euH8Aeo5sOk) 2025-08-11T22:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "When America Stole Its Citizens Gold In [----] the U.S. government made it illegal for citizens to own gold. Under threat of prison and massive fines Americans were forced to hand over their savings only to see the dollar devalued weeks later. This video from The Financial Historian uncovers how Roosevelts Executive Order [----] turned private wealth into government profit why banks were saved while ordinary people lost everything and how this precedent still shapes the financial system today. History shows that when the system is in danger the rules of money can change overnight. If they could" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fI24YiCBfOM) 2025-10-01T15:42Z 51.9K followers, 35.3K engagements "Why money today isnt real value Why money today isnt real value Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fLyLNcladiU) 2025-08-22T18:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "How financially free were feudal peasants Financial History in [--] seconds How financially free were feudal peasants Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fP7JyCqWaQo) 2025-08-02T18:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "What If Money Disappeared Tomorrow From Collapse to Crypto What happens if money the foundation of our financial system vanishes overnight History has seen it before from the fall of Rome to the wheelbarrows of worthless cash in Weimar Germany from Zimbabwes one-hundred-trillion-dollar bills to Venezuelas desperate barter economy. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how nations empires and ordinary people react when currency collapses and what really survives when paper and pixels lose their power. This is more than economic history its financial education for anyone who" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fxeGxJHFNKk) 2025-08-11T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The wars that made Wall Street richer The wars that made Wall Street richer Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gNygi4myMlA) 2025-08-29T20:02Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements "5 Money Rules the Romans Lived By And We Forgot Thanks for all the support lately Please give this video some hype next to the commentaries 💬⚡ The Romans built the richest empire in history and bankrupted it with the same financial mistakes were making today. From debt and inflation to luxury addiction and political money the Roman economy became the blueprint for every empire that came after. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the five money rules that built Rome sustained its power and ultimately destroyed it. Learn how propaganda coins runaway spending and moral decay turned" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=h6HsmIOaykE) 2025-10-11T15:01Z 56.9K followers, 17.7K engagements "The hidden business empire of Japans Yakuza The hidden business empire of Japans Yakuza Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money #Yakuza" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hOu6b6dbtmo) 2025-09-06T18:02Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements "How deep in debt was Napoleon Financial History How deep in debt was Napoleon Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMWd-_fn4mY) 2025-07-29T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Could America survive a Mexico-style peso collapse Could America survive a Mexico-style peso collapse Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=j3z9ub_PFhU) 2025-09-08T23:02Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "France went bankrupt before the Revolutiondid you know Financial History in [--] seconds #France went bankrupt before the #Revolutiondid you know Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jVfBVmf2FJE) 2025-08-01T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Why did the Greeks distrust economic power Why did the #Greeks distrust economic power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=klCNAf4d9sY) 2025-08-09T20:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Zimbabwe 2008: banknotes worth less than paper Zimbabwe 2008: banknotes worth less than paper Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kqaGgMO4sYA) 2025-09-10T18:03Z 25.9K followers, 11.3K engagements "Why your grandparents fell for the same scams Why your grandparents fell for the same scams Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lIcrsT5AQ_U) 2025-09-05T18:03Z 20.4K followers, 13.5K engagements "How Russias gold vanished during the Revolution How Russias gold vanished during the Revolution Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nId-IYo-ESs) 2025-08-30T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What Chinas devaluation teaches about power What Chinas devaluation teaches about power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nNmP5WAhsGg) 2025-09-15T20:51Z 32K followers, 10.2K engagements "Why inflation broke the Roman Empire Why inflation broke the Roman Empire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=n_2MUx879Js) 2025-08-27T18:03Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements "How China kept exports cheap with devaluation How #China kept exports cheap with devaluation Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pEgp4U-CYWg) 2025-09-15T20:42Z 31.6K followers, [----] engagements "How one family bankrolled Europes empires How one family bankrolled Europes empires Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pe5jBw2rLRE) 2025-09-20T21:49Z 34.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Richest Religion in America: How the Mormons Built Their Fortune The Mormon Church isnt just a religion its one of the most powerful financial machines in America. With billions hidden in secret investment funds vast real estate holdings across the U.S. and a tax-exempt empire that rivals the wealth of Wall Street the LDS Church has quietly become the richest religion in America. But how did they build this fortune From early persecution and the drive to establish Zion to disciplined tithing secretive hedge-fund style management and a whistleblower who revealed more than $100 billion" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfbv2Hauyns) 2025-09-29T15:01Z 46.6K followers, [----] engagements "Why the IMF had to rescue Mexicos peso crash Why the #IMF had to rescue #Mexicos peso crash Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=plIdyqBjmZM) 2025-09-08T18:44Z 23.5K followers, 12.6K engagements "Why the petrodollar became Americas secret weapon Why the petrodollar became Americas secret weapon Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5DvwOzTAmE) 2025-09-09T23:02Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements "Tulip Mania: when one flower cost more than a house Tulip Mania: when one flower cost more than a house Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q7YqOO9RIoI) 2025-08-20T22:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "How bad money destroyed Romes power How bad money destroyed Romes power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbun7NSu_YE) 2025-08-27T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Secret Deals That Made the Petrodollar King The U.S. dollar didnt become the worlds king by accident. It was built in secret. In [----] U.S. officials and Saudi royals struck a hidden bargain that reshaped the global economy. Oil the lifeblood of modern civilization would only be sold in dollars. In return America guaranteed Saudi security and recycled oil profits through Wall Street. This petrodollar system replaced gold with oil as the backbone of U.S. power forcing every nation on earth to hold dollars just to keep the lights on. This video uncovers the secret history of the petrodollar:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=s56OM8Q3YME) 2025-09-09T15:01Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements "How did the Templars use money to manipulate kings How did the #Templars use money to #manipulate #kings Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sgWsGEeSUog) 2025-08-13T23:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Economic Bubbles That Rocked the World From Tulips to NFTs Every generation thinks their financial revolution is different. But from Dutch tulips in the seventeenth century to crypto coins and NFTs today the story of economic bubbles has always been the same: hype greed and collapse. In this episode of The Financial Historian we trace the wildest bubbles in economic history Tulip Mania the South Sea Company the [----] stock market crash the dot-com boom the housing crisis and the rise of digital speculation. This isnt just history. Its financial education. These stories reveal how money and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=shemWn1ThdI) 2025-08-20T15:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Can You Spot the Next Bubble Before It Pops Every generation thinks its smarter than the last right up until the bubble pops. From Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble to the dot-com crash housing collapse and the rise of crypto and NFTs history keeps teaching the same financial lesson: greed always finds a new disguise. This episode of The Financial Historian exposes how financial bubbles form why they always repeat and how to spot the warning signs before the next crash. Youll see the same patterns of inflation debt speculation and storytelling that have shaped centuries of economic history" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tlEwXGpAGso) 2025-10-08T15:01Z 51.9K followers, [----] engagements "Why could a Roman slave be worth more than your annual salary Why could a Roman slave be worth more than your annual salary Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uHmn51-C06Y) 2025-08-16T13:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "High Fashion for the Fhrer: The Dark Business of Nazi Luxury While Europe starved Nazi officers wore Hugo Boss uniforms drove Mercedes-Benz cars and looted art from across the continent. The Third Reich didnt just build an army it built a luxury economy. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the dark business behind Nazi fashion propaganda and corporate collaboration how global brands like Hugo Boss BMW Mercedes and Chanel profited from forced labor looting and image-making. Its a story about how aesthetics became power and how wealth and propaganda fused to build one of the most" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uOzYInoG8wE) 2025-10-10T15:01Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements "Napoleon rebuilt Frances banking systemand changed modern finance forever. Financial History Napoleon rebuilt Frances banking systemand changed modern finance forever. Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uPG90a0Ayec) 2025-07-30T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "NFTs werent the first bubble not even close NFTs werent the first bubble not even close Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uY60KXrOlH0) 2025-08-21T02:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The dot-com crash explained in [--] seconds The dot-com crash explained in [--] seconds Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vgNV6QWgJoc) 2025-08-21T00:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Debt forgiveness: the ancient reset button Debt forgiveness: the ancient reset button Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vzc5GvJ7-Jc) 2025-09-07T14:02Z 20.4K followers, 10.7K engagements "The IMF loan trap: debt that never ends The IMF loan trap: debt that never ends Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w5ECNXz5NMQ) 2025-08-20T15:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Who Really Pays for Trumps Tariffs Tariffs arent making rivals pay theyre making you pay. In this episode of The Financial Historian we expose how Trumps Big Beautiful tax cuts for the wealthy are quietly balanced by tariffs that hit ordinary households. From Wall Street boardrooms to Walmart receipts history shows who really carries the cost. If this gave you a new perspective hit subscribe. History has the answers Ill show you where to look. #financialhistory #tariffs #taxcuts #financeexplained #historyofmoney #financialdocumentary #hiddenhistory #economicpolicy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wEtn91IABaQ) 2025-09-01T15:01Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "How the U.S. turned war into a business model Wars dont just change borders they reshape money and power. From World War I bonds to the Vietnam inflation spiral from the petrodollar to the trillion-dollar War on Terror every conflict has been a financial opportunity for those who knew how to profit. Meanwhile ordinary people paid the price through taxes inflation and lost wealth. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the hidden financial system behind modern wars and how the same tactics still shape your cost of living your debt and your financial freedom today. Understanding this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xQFe0Bo65L8) 2025-08-29T15:01Z 32.8K followers, 57.7K engagements "Black Markets and Gold: The Hidden Economy of Survival When money collapses the economy doesnt die it just goes underground. From Weimar Germany to Venezuela from the Soviet Union to modern inflation the same pattern repeats: people stop trusting their governments and start trusting gold. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers how black markets rise in every crisis how they quietly sustain life when official systems fail and why gold has always been the true currency of survival. 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"The Currency Wars You Never Learned About in School Most people think wars are fought with soldiers tanks and bombs. But some of the most devastating conflicts in history were fought with currencies. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden economic battles that never made it into your school textbooks from the British pounds fight for survival after the First World War to the United States secret campaigns to protect the dollar to the silent currency collapses that brought entire economies to their knees. This is not just economic history its financial education that"
YouTube Link 2025-08-13T17:54Z 147K followers, 28.4K engagements
"The REAL Reason Lehman Brothers COLLAPSED Overnight When Lehman Brothers collapsed in [----] $600 billion vanished and the world discovered how fragile the global financial system really was. But this wasnt an accident it was the logical result of decades of deregulation leverage and illusion. This episode of The Financial Historian exposes how the [----] financial crisis began why Lehman was allowed to fail and how that single decision reshaped capitalism. From subprime mortgages and reckless Wall Street greed to the massive bailouts that followed this is the story of how money and power fused"
YouTube Link 2025-10-09T15:00Z 147K followers, 12.8K engagements
"The Rothschilds of the East: The Dynasty History Tried to Forget They built an empire without a crown ruling Asia not through armies but through credit trade and opium. The Sassoons were refugees who became one of the wealthiest families in the world the Rothschilds of the East. From Baghdad to Bombay from Shanghai to London they financed Britains empire powered global trade and quietly shaped the modern financial system. But behind their success was a darker truth a fortune built on the worlds first great addiction. This is the untold story of how exile became empire and how one forgotten"
YouTube Link 2025-11-21T16:30Z 147K followers, 28.8K engagements
"What If Money Didnt Mean Debt Every dollar in your pocket is someone elses debt. Thats the hidden design of our financial system. Banks create money when they issue loans. Governments create money when they sell bonds. The result A treadmill that only runs if debt keeps growing fueling inflation inequality and endless financial crises. But does money have to mean debt In this episode of The Financial Historian we dig into the economic history of money and power to show the alternatives. From Mesopotamian debt jubilees to Englands tally sticks from Lincolns debt-free greenbacks to Switzerlands"
YouTube Link 2025-09-22T15:00Z 147K followers, 40.7K engagements
"Thomas Piketty: The Scholar of Inequality Inequality didnt explode overnight it compounded quietly for centuries. For decades we were told that inequality was a temporary side effect of growth that markets would correct themselves and that hard work would eventually catch up with wealth. In this episode of The Financial Historian we examine how economist Thomas Piketty shattered that comforting story by doing something radically simple: looking at centuries of data instead of decades. What he found wasnt ideology or opinion it was a structural pattern that explains why wealth keeps"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T16:00Z 147K followers, 60.5K engagements
"How Religion Funded the Age of Exploration The modern world wasnt discovered by brave explorers it was financed by power legitimacy and belief. Before stock markets central banks or global corporations there was an institution that learned how to turn moral authority into geopolitical leverage. This documentary explores how religion specifically the Catholic Church became the hidden financial infrastructure of the Age of Exploration. Not by paying for ships but by reducing risk legalizing conquest and transforming violence into lawful expansion. From papal decrees that divided the world to"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"Ibn Khaldun: The North African Genius Who Invented Economic Cycles Six centuries before modern economics one man explained why every economy rises and why it always falls. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the work of Ibn Khaldun the North African thinker who identified economic cycles long before charts models or central banks existed. By observing the rise and collapse of states firsthand he realized that wealth power and prosperity follow predictable patterns driven by incentives social cohesion and human behavior. This isnt abstract philosophy its a clear-eyed"
YouTube Link 2026-01-17T16:00Z 147K followers, 74.6K engagements
"Feudalism 2.0: The Economic System That Never Died Feudalism is usually treated as a dead system buried with castles kings and medieval landholdings. But feudalism was never really about armor or titles. It was about who owned what mattered. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore Feudalism [---] the quiet return of an economic structure based not on violence but on dependency without ownership. A system where access replaces possession stability replaces mobility and participation increasingly requires permanent payment. This isnt a story about nostalgia or ideology. Its a story"
YouTube Link 2026-02-09T16:00Z 147K followers, 35.1K engagements
"The Rothschild fortune vs. todays billionaires The #Rothschild fortune vs. todays #billionaires Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money Rothschilds banking system banks cash flow debt dollar economics finance finance documentary finance explained finance tips financial education financial freedom financial history financial management financial wellness history of money how money works how to make money hyperinflation imf inflation inflation explained investing investing for beginners money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-20T23:02Z 147K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Joseph Schumpeter: The Prophet of Creative Destruction Capitalism doesnt grow by building it grows by destroying. Innovation is often sold as progress without cost. But history tells a colder story. In this episode of The Financial Historian we examine the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter the economist who understood capitalism more honestly than most: as a system that creates wealth by wiping out what came before it. Factories replace craftsmen. Platforms erase industries. Cities rise decay and are abandoned not because something went wrong but because the system is working exactly as designed."
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The Hidden Financial Battle Behind World War I World War I wasnt only fought in the trenches it was fought in the banks on balance sheets and in the hidden corridors of money and power. The gold standard collapsed governments borrowed on an unprecedented scale and ordinary citizens were persuaded to fund the war through patriotic bonds. This moment changed economic history forever shaping the modern financial system global crises and the very meaning of real wealth. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden financial mistakes behind the First World War the economic"
YouTube Link 2025-08-23T18:09Z 147K followers, 114.9K engagements
"The Hidden Cost of Military Power: How Were Ancient Armies Really Paid Empires werent destroyed on the battlefield. They were destroyed at the payroll desk. For most of human history the greatest challenge facing any empire wasnt conquest it was paying the men who carried out the violence that kept the system alive. Long before central banks income taxes or government debt ancient states had to solve the same problem modern governments still face today: how to fund a permanent military without collapsing the society beneath it. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how ancient"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T16:00Z 147K followers, 13.5K engagements
"The Financial Genius of Sun Tzu (That No One Talks About) Sun Tzu didnt just redefine warfare he redefined the economics of survival. His real masterpiece wasnt strategy. It was cost control. For centuries The Art of War has been treated as a military manual or a self-help book for executives. But hidden beneath its iconic lines is a financial philosophy far more advanced than most modern states understand. This video uncovers the economic blueprint inside Sun Tzus thinking how he treated war as a balance sheet logistics as national lifelines and intelligence as the cheapest weapon ever"
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T17:36Z 147K followers, 170.6K engagements
"How Bananas Broke Latin America A fruit company once overthrew a government and the world barely blinked. This is the hidden chapter of economic history: the moment when corporate power in Latin America grew so large that it reshaped borders toppled presidents controlled national economies and invented the very idea of the banana republic. This video uncovers how the United Fruit Company built a shadow empire across Central America using land monopolies railroads lobbying propaganda and at times the military might of the United States. Its a story of money and power colliding in the most"
YouTube Link 2025-11-26T16:09Z 147K followers, 12K engagements
"The Economic Empire of the Mesopotamian Gods Before money before markets before governments the gods ran the economy. And for two thousand years the temples of Mesopotamia controlled the wealth labor credit and power of the ancient world. This documentary reveals the worlds first true financial system: an economy built not by merchants or monarchs but by priests. Long before modern banking or taxation the temples of Sumer Akkad Babylon and Assyria acted as landlords lenders employers accountants storage vaults regulators and political power centers. This episode exposes how early"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T16:00Z 147K followers, 16K engagements
"Samuelson and the Birth of Modern Economics At some point economics stopped talking about people and started talking like physics. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how Paul Samuelson reshaped economics in the 20th century and quietly gave birth to the modern financial worldview that still governs markets central banks and policy today. By turning economics into a mathematical model-driven discipline Samuelson gave it unprecedented authority but also changed who economics was for and who it left behind. This video breaks down Samuelsons core ideas in plain language"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T16:01Z 147K followers, 12K engagements
"Who Got Rich During the Black Plague The Black Plague didnt just kill millions it quietly created fortunes that reshaped Europe for centuries. Behind the horror of the plague lies an economic story almost no one talks about: the families merchants nobles and institutions that used catastrophe to accumulate land power and generational wealth. This documentary reveals the real winners of one of historys greatest collapses from the early Medici bankers and the Visconti dukes of Milan to rising English gentry families powerful monastic orders and the merchant dynasties of the Hanseatic League."
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T16:00Z 147K followers, 33K engagements
"Capitalism vs Socialism: What Actually Worked (and What Didnt) When ideology meets reality history keeps the score not the slogans. Capitalism vs. Socialism was never just an economic argument. It was a global experiment that shaped wars revolutions depressions and the modern financial system itself. This video takes you above the noise a 30000-foot view of how both systems actually worked how they failed how they adapted and how they built the world we live in today. From the rise of industrial capitalism to the Soviet experiment from the Great Depression to Chinas state capitalism this"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T16:00Z 147K followers, 137.8K engagements
"The Forgotten Laws of Money: From Gresham to Cantillon Most people think money is random that inflation debt and financial crises just happen. But history tells a different story. Money follows laws. Not the kind written by governments but deeper older rules that empires ignore at their own peril. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the forgotten laws of money from Greshams Law in the 1500s to Goodharts Law in the 1970s and show how they still rule your life today. Youll see why bad money always drives out good why crises push people into sound assets why money printing"
YouTube Link 2025-09-25T15:00Z 147K followers, 74.3K engagements
"The Real Power Of Davos: Who Really Runs the World Economy Every January the most powerful people on Earth meet in a snow-covered town to save the world. But Davos isnt a summit its a system. The World Economic Forum was built to unite global power under one quiet idea: control the future by defining what progress means. This episode uncovers how a private foundation in Switzerland became the most influential network on the planet shaping markets governments and even morality itself. From the birth of the World Economic Forum in [----] to todays Great Reset this is the untold story of how Davos"
YouTube Link 2025-11-03T16:00Z 147K followers, 16.1K engagements
"How Debt Became the Most Profitable Product in History What if I told you the most profitable product in history isnt oil gold or technology its debt From clay tablets in Mesopotamia to the Dutch bond markets from the Bank of England to Wall Street debt has been carefully engineered into the foundation of our financial system. It funds wars props up governments drives consumer culture and quietly transfers wealth from the many to the few. This video traces the hidden history of debt: how it became the backbone of empires how the IMF and World Bank turned it into a tool of global control how"
YouTube Link 2025-09-04T15:00Z 147K followers, 137.7K engagements
"Bubbles Never Feel Like Bubbles. Here's Why. The most dangerous moment in a financial bubble isnt the crash. Its the moment when doubt disappears. Every major market bubble in history followed the same pattern: rising prices growing confidence and a shared belief that this time is different. In this episode of The Financial Historian we break down the psychology behind economic bubbles not through charts or predictions but through human behavior. From tulips to dot-coms to todays AI-driven market optimism this video explains why bubbles never feel irrational while youre inside them how"
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"How America Rebuilt Capitalism After the Gilded Age When inequality becomes impossible to ignore nations have a choice: collapse under the weight of concentrated wealth or rewrite the rules of the game. America has been here before. At the end of the Gilded Age the United States was drowning in financial inequality corporate monopolies political corruption and violent market crashes. But instead of breaking the country fought back launching one of historys most ambitious attempts to reform capitalism from within. This video explores how America confronted the power of the robber barons built"
YouTube Link 2025-11-24T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"If Every Country Is in Debt Whos the Creditor Every country on Earth is drowning in debt but nobody ever asks the real question: if everyone owes money whos the creditor The United States owes over $38 trillion. Europe owes $14 trillion. Japan owes $9 trillion. Global debt now exceeds $315 trillion nearly three times the size of the world economy. Yet somehow the system keeps running. How Because governments arent trying to pay their debts off theyre rolling them over forever. In this episode of The Financial Historian we reveal how modern economies turned debt into money itself and why the"
YouTube Link 2025-10-27T15:01Z 147K followers, 1.3M engagements
"How the Maya Turned Chocolate Into Money Before gold before coins before banks an entire civilization ran its economy on chocolate. For the ancient Maya cacao wasnt a luxury or a dessert. It was financial infrastructure. A currency you could count store tax and trade. A medium of exchange so stable and so trusted that it powered markets paid soldiers settled debts and shaped political power across Mesoamerica. This video reveals how a plant became money and why understanding it changes the way we think about value inflation trust and the psychology behind every financial system humans have"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T16:03Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"How Metal Became Money Money didnt begin as a tool for trade it began as a tool for power. Most people are taught that money was invented to fix the problems of barter. That coins emerged to make exchange easier fairer and more efficient. In reality the story is far more unsettling. In this episode of The Financial Historian we trace the true origins of money from early gift economies to bronze silver and stamped coins and reveal why metal became money in the first place. This is a story about scale authority taxation and control. About how money evolved not to simplify trade but to make"
YouTube Link 2025-12-31T16:00Z 147K followers, 18.4K engagements
"How the Economy Worked in the Time of Jesus Jesus didnt live in a spiritual vacuum. He lived inside one of historys most unequal economies. Most people imagine the time of Jesus as a distant religious world of sermons and miracles. But for those actually living there daily life was shaped by debt taxation land loss and survival under imperial rule. This video explores how the economy of Roman Judea really worked who controlled wealth how extraction functioned and why economic pressure defined everyday life far more than theology ever did. By examining the financial system of the ancient"
YouTube Link 2025-12-25T15:39Z 147K followers, 95.2K engagements
"Thorstein Veblen: The Economist Who Exposed Conspicuous Consumption Much of modern spending has nothing to do with need and everything to do with being seen. Over a century ago economist Thorstein Veblen exposed a truth that still shapes our financial system today: people dont just buy for utility they buy for status. In this video we explore how Veblen dismantled the idea of the rational consumer and revealed consumption as a social signal a performance driven by hierarchy imitation and comparison. From the excesses of the Gilded Age to modern luxury branding debt and lifestyle inflation"
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T16:01Z 147K followers, 25.7K engagements
"The Indulgence Economy: When Faith Became Transactional There was a moment in history when forgiveness came with a price tag. In the late Middle Ages salvation stopped being only a matter of faith and became something disturbingly transactional. This video explores how papal indulgences evolved from acts of devotion into a scalable revenue system one that transformed belief into liquidity and fear into cash flow. By examining the Church not just as a religious authority but as a transnational institution managing power land charity and enormous financial pressures we uncover how markets"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T17:06Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The Financial Origins of the United States America didnt win its independence on ideals alone it won it on credit foreign loans and the financial rivalries of Europe. The Revolution wasnt just a war. It was an investment and empires were the ones buying in. The Financial Historian unpacks the hidden economic architecture behind the birth of the United States: the secret loans from France and Spain the Dutch bankers who turned rebellion into a credit market and the domestic speculators who built fortunes from collapsing currency. This video reveals how financial desperation shaped diplomacy"
YouTube Link 2025-12-08T16:00Z 147K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Why Salt Was Once More Valuable Than Gold There was a time when gold impressedbut salt decided who survived. Long before modern money banking systems or global supply chains the most powerful commodity on Earth wasnt shiny or rare. It was essential. This video explores how salt became one of the most valuable resources in economic history shaping empires fueling wars and triggering revolutions. By tracing salts role in food preservation taxation trade routes and state control we reveal how power has always followed necessitynot luxury. More importantly we connect this forgotten economic truth"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T16:00Z 147K followers, 10.1K engagements
"How Persia Used Money to Rule the Ancient World The worlds first empire didnt rise on conquest alone it rose on a financial system so advanced our governments are still copying it today. Long before Wall Street central banks and modern taxation the Achaemenid Persians engineered a fully integrated financial architecture that held together the largest empire on Earth. This documentary reveals how the daric became the first global reserve currency how Darius I built a fiscal machine that powered armies and infrastructure across continents and how the Persian treasury became the blueprint for"
YouTube Link 2025-12-01T16:00Z 147K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Keynes: The Man Who Made Governments Addicted to Debt When the world ran out of money he told governments to print more and they listened. John Maynard Keynes didnt just change economics; he changed how power works. In the ruins of the Great Depression he taught nations that spending could end suffering and that debt could be salvation. But the cure that saved capitalism also made it addicted. This is the story of how one economist turned crisis management into a way of life and how were still living in his experiment. Keyness [----] book The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money"
YouTube Link 2025-11-14T16:01Z 147K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Why Humans Keep Falling for the Same Economic Illusions Every financial collapse begins with the same four words: this time is different. Why do humans keep falling for the same economic illusionsdespite centuries of data crashes and hard-earned lessons This video is a year-end reflection on the patterns we never seem to break. From speculative bubbles to inflationary cycles from faith in permanent growth to belief in total control The Financial Historian explores why economic history keeps repeatingnot because the system fails but because human behavior never really changes. This isnt a"
YouTube Link 2025-12-29T16:07Z 147K followers, 23.6K engagements
"How the Ottoman Empire Paid for [---] Years of War They fought for six centuries and didnt go bankrupt. No empire in history weaponized money like the Ottomans did. For over [---] years the Ottoman Empire waged near-constant war across Europe the Middle East and North Africa. Yet instead of collapsing under the cost they engineered a financial system that turned conflict into revenue. This documentary reveals the hidden economics behind the empires military machine: the tax-powered cavalry the Janissary system the profitable trade routes the state monopolies and the revenue networks that kept the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T16:01Z 147K followers, 94.6K engagements
"When Pirates Became Legal (And Who Got Rich) The most profitable crime in history wasnt piracy. It was piracy with government approval. For centuries empires didnt just tolerate pirates they licensed them financed them and quietly profited. This video explores how privateers became one of the earliest forms of state-sanctioned outsourcing turning looting into a business model and war into an investment opportunity. By following the money behind letters of marque naval raids and global trade routes we reveal how governments privatized risk socialized rewards and erased the line between"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"How Ancient China Invented Paper Money The first major financial revolution didnt happen in Europe it happened in China [---] years before the West even understood the idea. Long before central banks long before the Knights Templar built their credit networks ancient China created something unprecedented: money printed on paper backed by the power of the state rather than the weight of metal. This documentary uncovers how the Tang and Song dynasties engineered the worlds first fiat currency how merchants sparked a financial innovation that reshaped global economics and how overprinting"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T16:01Z 147K followers, 11K engagements
"How Carthage Challenged Rome With Economics Rome didnt defeat Carthage on the battlefield it defeated Carthage in the balance sheet. Before Rome built an empire of legions it faced a rival built on capital trade and global logistics. Carthage wasnt just another ancient city-state; it was a commercial superpower whose economic model challenged Rome long before swords ever clashed. This documentary reveals how the Punic Wars became a test of two competing financial systems one driven by liquidity mercenary forces and maritime wealth and the other driven by national credit citizen mobilization"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T16:08Z 147K followers, 18K engagements
"Why China Devalued Its Currency on Purpose (And What It Gained) Most people think a weak currency means a weak country. But Chinas deliberate devaluation of the yuan was not a sign of weakness it was a strategy. By keeping its money cheap China made its exports unstoppable built the factories that turned it into the workshop of the world and quietly financed Americas debt with the dollars it earned. This episode of The Financial Historian breaks down how Chinas currency strategy worked in plain English. Well explain how the Peoples Bank of China pegged the yuan to the dollar bought trillions"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T15:01Z 147K followers, 44.9K engagements
"The Venetian Money Empire: How a City Became a Bank Venice didnt conquer the world with armies. It did it by turning trust into moneyand money into power. Long before modern banks central authorities or government bonds a small city built on water discovered something radical: wealth doesnt come from land or gold alone but from credibility. This video explores how Venice transformed trade into finance finance into governance and governance into a system so stable that empires depended on it. By unpacking Venices rise as the worlds first true financial power we reveal how public debt banking"
YouTube Link 2025-12-15T18:57Z 147K followers, 19.4K engagements
"How Spices Built the First Global Economy For centuries the world wasnt driven by gold or oil it was driven by flavor. And the race for spices didnt just build fortunes it built the first global economy. Before Wall Street before central banks before modern capitalism the global financial system was forged through pepper cinnamon nutmeg sugar and the brutal corporate empires that controlled them. This video reveals how spices became currency how monopolies shaped nations how early corporations weaponized scarcity and how todays supply chain battles echo the same patterns. From Venice to the"
YouTube Link 2025-11-27T16:01Z 147K followers, 28.8K engagements
"Adam Smiths Invisible Hand and What He Actually Meant The greatest myth in economic history wasnt created by Adam Smith it was created by the people who needed his words to protect their wealth. For centuries textbooks politicians and corporate strategists have repeated a story about the invisible hand a story Adam Smith never actually told. This video breaks open the real history behind Smiths philosophy revealing how one metaphor was transformed into an ideology that shaped global capitalism. By exploring Smiths world decoding his actual writings and exposing how his ideas were rewritten"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T16:01Z 147K followers, 64K engagements
"The Financial Tricks Governments Use to Keep You Broke Governments say they work for your financial freedom but history tells a different story. From Rome debasing its silver coins to modern inflation bailouts and quantitative easing the real pattern is clear: financial systems are designed to keep the majority broke while wealth and power flow upward. In this episode of The Financial Historian we expose the hidden economic history of how states manipulate money debt and inflation to transfer wealth from the people to the elite. This is financial education you wont get in school sharp lessons"
YouTube Link 2025-08-25T15:01Z 147K followers, 266.1K engagements
"Al-Ghazali: The Thinker Who Linked Money to Morality Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali lived during the height of the Islamic Golden Age but his analysis of money morality and power feels like it was written for the 21st century. This video uncovers how a medieval scholar understood the psychology of wealth the danger of corruption and the economic consequences of losing integrity long before modern economics existed. For anyone trying to understand todays financial system inflation speculation or inequality Al-Ghazalis ideas offer a shockingly relevant roadmap. Key Facts & Insights Al-Ghazali argued that"
YouTube Link 2025-12-05T16:01Z 147K followers, 570.9K engagements
"MK Ultra: The Business of Controlling Minds and Markets They werent just trying to control minds. They were trying to control behavior the most valuable currency in any economy. MK-Ultra wasnt science fiction. It wasnt a rumor. It was a real multimillion-dollar Cold War program designed to test whether human decision-making could be engineered. And while the experiments were brutal and scientifically chaotic the idea behind them that behavior could be shaped predicted and monetized lived on long after the files were burned. In this investigative deep dive we follow the money the institutions"
YouTube Link 2025-11-19T16:00Z 144K followers, 14.1K engagements
"How Money Destroyed Ancient Rome Rome didnt just fall to invading armies it collapsed because its money did. The silver denarius once trusted across the empire was debased until it became nearly worthless. Inflation skyrocketed trade broke down and trust in the financial system evaporated. The empire rotted from within and historys greatest power was undone by its own currency crisis. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how the Roman currency collapse set the blueprint for every inflationary disaster since from Weimar Germany to Zimbabwe to todays fiat system. This is"
YouTube Link 2025-08-28T15:00Z 145K followers, 293.7K engagements
"The Gunpowder Economy That Still Rules Today Gunpowder didnt just change war it rewired the entire financial system behind it. When gunpowder entered the battlefield it quietly transformed something far more important than tactics: the cost of power. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how gunpowder technology turned war from a seasonal human-scaled conflict into a permanent capital-intensive enterprise and how that shift gave birth to modern taxation public debt inflation and centralized states. This isnt a story about weapons. Its a story about money power and the economic"
YouTube Link 2026-01-01T16:13Z 147K followers, 13.1K engagements
"The Potato: The Crop That Rewired the Global Economy. The most powerful economic force in history wasnt a machine a bank or a law it was a crop. Long before factories central banks or modern finance a single biological innovation quietly rewired the global economy from the ground up. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how the potato transformed population growth labor markets state power and empire-building and why its success created a hidden fragility that would later devastate millions. This is not a story about food. Its a story about productivity shocks systemic"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"How Hedge Funds Quietly Control America You dont vote for them. You dont see their names on ballots. But they own your home your job your data and sometimes even your politicians. From quiet offices in Manhattan and Greenwich hedge funds have become the most powerful invisible empire in modern America. They dont build products they buy systems. They dont make policy they fund the people who do. In this episode The Financial Historian exposes how hedge funds evolved from cautious investment tools into global power centers controlling everything from housing to politics. Youll learn how they"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T15:00Z 146K followers, 48.3K engagements
"The Disappearing Russian Gold Reserves of [----] In [----] the Russian Empire collapsed and with it one of the largest gold reserves in the world disappeared. Over [----] tons of bullion enough to anchor the ruble and project financial power across continents simply vanished into the chaos of war and revolution. Some went to foreign banks some funded the Bolsheviks and some was looted by generals and smugglers. Most of it was never recovered. This episode of The Financial Historian unpacks how Russias disappearing gold shaped the fate of an empire fueled civil war and still echoes in the way"
YouTube Link 2025-08-30T15:00Z 146K followers, 34.5K engagements
"The Rothschilds: How One Family Engineered Modern Finance For over a century the Rothschild family stood at the center of money and power. They financed kings underwrote wars built railroads and turned sovereign debt into the backbone of modern economies. Some called them shadow rulers others saw them as the inventors of modern banking. The truth is even more unsettling: the Rothschilds didnt just get rich they engineered the financial system we still live under today. This episode of The Financial Historian explores how Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his five sons created a global network of"
YouTube Link 2025-09-16T15:00Z 146K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Charles Ponzi: the scammer who started it all Charles #Ponzi: the #scammer who started it all Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money banks cash flow debt dollar economics finance finance documentary finance explained finance tips financial education financial freedom financial history financial management financial wellness history of money how money works how to make money hyperinflation imf inflation inflation explained investing investing for beginners money money mindset oil personal"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T16:20Z 145K followers, [----] engagements
"How Britains Bankers Financed Its Global Domination Britain didnt just conquer with ships and soldiers it conquered with bankers. From the founding of the Bank of England to the global reach of sterling finance became the empires sharpest weapon. Wars trade and even famines were turned into financial opportunities shaping a world economy still built on those foundations. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how money and power fused to create Britains global domination. Youll learn how the financial system worked behind the scenes of empire what it meant for the people who"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T15:45Z 145K followers, 49K engagements
"The Peso Crash: The Day Mexico Went Bankrupt In [----] Mexico went from an oil-rich rising power to a bankrupt nation overnight. The peso collapsed banks were frozen and millions of ordinary citizens watched their savings vanish. What happened wasnt just a Mexican tragedy it was the first domino in a global debt crisis that shook Wall Street the IMF and international banks across Europe. This episode of The Financial Historian unpacks how pride oil and debt fueled Mexicos boom why the government seized every private bank in a desperate attempt to stop capital flight and how within a decade"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T15:00Z 146K followers, [----] engagements
"How the Crusades Built Europes War Economy A holy war that accidentally built Europes first financial system. When the Crusades began they were framed as an act of faith. But behind the sermons vows and sacred promises something far more durable was taking shape. This video explores how medieval Europe transformed religious devotion into a vast economic engine one that mobilized capital created new financial institutions standardized debt and quietly rewired how money power and risk flowed across the continent. By following the Crusades not as battles but as transactions we uncover how land"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T06:00Z 147K followers, 14.5K engagements
"How Stock Buybacks Quietly Rigged the Market Once upon a time stock buybacks were a crime. If a company used its own money to inflate its stock price executives could be prosecuted for market manipulation. Today that same practice drives trillions of dollars in shareholder value enriching the few hollowing out the many and redefining capitalism itself. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers how a single rule change in [----] quietly legalized one of the most powerful financial manipulations in history. Well trace the journey from the Great Depression when buybacks were banned to the"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T16:00Z 146K followers, 16K engagements
"How the Mongols Built a War Machine With Trade Not Taxes They didnt tax their people into obedience they made the world move through them. The Mongol Empire built the most efficient war machine in history without income taxes bureaucracies or modern states. Instead they mastered something far more powerful: control over trade movement and access. In this episode of The Financial Historian we dismantle the myth of Mongol chaos and reveal the cold economic logic behind their rise. From the Silk Road to modern shipping chokepoints from horse-mounted empires to oil corridors and global supply"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The Saudi System: Why Oil Wealth Defeats Elections Oil didnt just create wealth it created immunity. This video breaks down how the House of Saud transformed oil into one of the most durable power structures in modern history. Not through democracy innovation or popular legitimacy but through leverage dependency and financial insulation. This isnt a story about culture or ideology. Its a clear-eyed analysis of how a dynasty positioned itself at the center of the global energy and monetary system and why that position still shapes inflation markets and everyday life far beyond Saudi Arabia."
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T17:13Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"War Bonds: The First Global Financial Scam They called it patriotism. It was actually the first global financial trap. In this cinematic deep dive we uncover how governments turned loyalty into liquidity and taught citizens to bankroll their own manipulation. From the Liberty Bonds of World War I to the Treasury markets of today this is the hidden history of how debt became the worlds most powerful weapon and how the modern financial system was born not in peace but in propaganda. World War I marked the first time ordinary citizens directly funded war through government-issued bonds. U.S."
YouTube Link 2025-11-11T19:36Z 146K followers, [----] engagements
"Did the Rothschilds really control wars with loans Did the #Rothschilds really control wars with loans Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-16T14:04Z 144K followers, [----] engagements
"Stories Over Spreadsheets Why Markets Follow Fiction Not Facts Markets dont crash when reality breaks they crash when belief does. Were told markets are driven by data fundamentals and rational analysis. But history shows something far more unsettling: prices often move long before the numbers change. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how stories not spreadsheets have repeatedly driven booms panics and collapses. From 19th-century railway fever to the sudden shock of Black Monday in [----] and from speculative land manias to modern crypto hype cycles this video reveals how"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T16:00Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The IMF's Dark History in Latin America Latin America became the IMFs testing ground a region where austerity privatization and debt restructuring were forced on nations in the name of stability. From Mexicos default in [----] to Argentinas collapse in [----] the IMFs dark history in Latin America shows how financial power can strip away sovereignty and trap entire generations in cycles of poverty. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers how the IMF became a shadowy power player protecting banks and creditors while politicians deferred the cost of their mistakes. Its a story of money and"
YouTube Link 2025-09-03T15:01Z 146K followers, 36.5K engagements
"Water Wars Before Water Wars Were a Thing Water didnt just sustain civilization it decided who ruled it. Long before oil gold or modern finance control over water determined economic power political stability and survival itself. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore how ancient societies fought taxed engineered and collapsed around water systems and why those early water wars reveal a pattern that still governs the modern financial system today. This isnt a story about drought or climate panic. Its a story about infrastructure leverage and how control over essential flows"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T16:22Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The Choke Point Strategy That Made Portugal Unstoppable The world didnt become global by accident. It was engineered route by route choke point by choke point. Long before empires ruled continents one small kingdom learned a more powerful lesson: you dont need to own land to dominate trade you need to control movement. This video breaks down how Portugal a marginal European power built the first true global system by turning the ocean into infrastructure. Not through conquest alone but through logistics tolls monopolies and enforced access. This isnt a story about explorers chasing glory. Its"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The Knowledge Economy That Built an Empire Baghdad's Golden Age While much of the world was fragmented and poor one city quietly became the richest on Earth. In this episode of The Financial Historian we explore the Abbasid Golden Age and the rise of Baghdad as the most powerful economic and intellectual hub of its time. This is not a story about religion or legend its a story about systems. How deliberate urban design global trade networks financial innovation and investment in knowledge turned Baghdad into a magnet for wealth centuries before modern capitalism. By understanding how this"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T00:36Z 147K followers, 19.9K engagements
"Sun Yat-sen: The Revolutionary Who Tried to Rewrite Chinas Economy Chinas modern economy didnt begin with communism it began with a warning that arrived too early. Before Mao before Marxism took hold one revolutionary tried to redesign Chinas economic future from first principles. This video explores how Sun Yat-sen diagnosed Chinas deepest structural weakness economic dependency and attempted to build a system that could restore sovereignty stability and long-term growth without copying Western capitalism or Soviet socialism. This isnt a story about ideology. Its about infrastructure land"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"Land: the Original Bitcoin Before Bitcoin before gold before banks there was land. The first currency. The first collateral. The only thing that ever truly held its value. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the oldest story in economics how land became humanitys original store of value the foundation of every empire and the invisible force still controlling global wealth today. From ancient Egypt to blockchain miners from feudal lords to modern landlords the game never really changed only the technology did. Land was the first Bitcoin: scarce finite impossible to print. Every"
YouTube Link 2025-11-07T16:01Z 145K followers, 15.9K engagements
"The U.S.-Saudi deal that changed global money The U.S.-Saudi deal that changed global money Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money banks cash flow credit cards debt dollar economics finance finance documentary finance explained finance tips financial education financial freedom financial history financial management financial wellness history of money how money works how to make money imf inflation explained investing investing for beginners money money mindset oil personal finance rich"
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T18:03Z 146K followers, 25.8K engagements
"How Merchants Outplayed Kings in Medieval Europe They had no king. No flag. No army. Yet they bent kings starved cities and dictated trade across an entire continent. Long before multinational corporations or global financial institutions a loose network of merchants quietly built one of the most powerful economic systems in history. The Hanseatic League didnt conquer Northern Europe with swords it controlled it through trade routes coordinated markets and collective leverage. This video explores how a merchant cartel outperformed medieval states why rulers depended on it and what its rise"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T16:59Z 147K followers, 17.5K engagements
"How Dutch Capitalism Changed Finance Forever Before Wall Street before the City of London there was Amsterdam. A city built below sea level that invented the system we still live under: stocks banks speculation and the idea that money could multiply itself through trust. This film uncovers how 17th-century Amsterdam became the birthplace of capitalism how merchants replaced monarchs how credit replaced conquest and how the Dutch East India Company created both the first global empire and the first financial bubble. From tulips to trading floors this is the story of how one small republic"
YouTube Link 2025-11-05T16:01Z 146K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Enron: The Corporate Giant Built on Lies Enron was once Americas most admired company. By [----] it was the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. This video from The Financial Historian exposes how Enron turned accounting tricks into billion-dollar profits built a cult-like corporate culture of lies and wiped out the savings of [-----] employees all while its executives cashed out millions. From mark-to-market accounting to shell companies from Wall Street hype to government complicity Enron shows how illusions of wealth are manufactured and sold until they collapse. And the warning isnt"
YouTube Link 2025-10-02T15:01Z 144K followers, 11K engagements
"Why the Post - WWII World Order Was Built This Way The world you live in wasnt shaped by accident it was engineered after catastrophe. In this episode of The Financial Historian we trace the hidden logic behind the postWorld War II world order and explain why the global financial system was built this way. From the ruins of war to the creation of Bretton Woods the dollar-centered system and the quiet tradeoffs that prioritized stability over fairness this video unpacks how money power and fear shaped the modern economic order. This isnt a story about collapse its a story about design. And"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T16:01Z 147K followers, [----] engagements
"The Ponzi Scheme That Gave Fraud Its Name The most famous fraud in history wasnt about gold stocks or Wall Street. It was about postage stamps. In [----] Charles Ponzi promised ordinary families in Boston that he could turn $100 into $150 in just [--] days. Neighbors bragged about quick profits crowds lined up outside his office with envelopes of cash and thousands believed they had found the shortcut to the American Dream. In reality Ponzi wasnt investing in international postage coupons at all he was paying old investors with new investors money. Within months his empire collapsed wiping out"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T15:30Z 145K followers, 11.6K engagements
"The mystery of [---] tons of missing Russian gold The mystery of [---] tons of missing Russian gold Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-30T20:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How Napoleon Rewrote Banking to Fund His Empire Napoleon Bonaparte didnt just win battles he rewrote the financial system of France to fund an empire. From the creation of the Banque de France to the franc germinal tax reforms and the use of war as a revenue machine his strategies built a financial backbone that outlived him. This is the untold side of economic history: how money and power worked together to shape the modern world. In this episode of The Financial Historian we dive deep into the economic history behind Napoleons rise the banking reforms currency stabilization tax systems and"
YouTube Link 2025-08-14T20:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Medici: Bankers Who Invented the Renaissance Economy The Renaissance wasnt just about art and genius. It was about money. Behind Michelangelo Da Vinci and the popes of Rome stood one family: the Medicis. They didnt just fund the Renaissance they invented the modern economy. From banking popes to buying politicians from financing masterpieces to bribing their way back into power the Medici used money to control politics religion and culture itself. This video from The Financial Historian reveals how the Medici Bank became Europes financial engine how Medici popes turned the Vatican into a"
YouTube Link 2025-10-07T15:00Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Did the Stoics have a financial philosophy Did the #Stoics have a financial #philosophy Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-10T16:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Why temples were the safest banks in history Why temples were the safest banks in history Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-07T18:02Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements
"1929 [----] and the next crash we wont avoid [----] [----] and the next crash we wont avoid Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-05T23:02Z 20.4K followers, 10.8K engagements
"The Laws Written to Protect Banks Not People Every time a financial crisis hits new laws are passed with promises to protect the public. But history shows the truth: those laws are almost always written to protect the banks not you. From the Bank Charter Act in nineteenth-century Britain to the U.S. Glass-Steagall Act from deposit insurance to the [----] bailouts and the European Stability Mechanism financial legislation has been marketed as stability for citizens but in practice has shielded the financial system itself. In this episode of The Financial Historian we expose how laws like the"
YouTube Link 2025-09-17T17:04Z 37.4K followers, 14.6K engagements
"How rich was Athens at its peak How rich was #Athens at its peak Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-09T22:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The secret money war behind the trenches The secret money war behind the trenches Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-23T18:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The Dark Origin of Vatican Wealth The Vatican is the richest religious institution on earth but its fortune didnt come from miracles. It came from land grabs taxes indulgences secret treaties and banking scandals that would make Wall Street blush. From Constantines gifts of land in the fourth century to the tithe that taxed every medieval family to the sale of indulgences that built St. Peters Basilica the Church turned faith into finance. The Renaissance popes lived like kings partnering with the Medici bankers while Martin Luthers protest exposed indulgences as financial exploitation."
YouTube Link 2025-09-11T15:00Z 45.1K followers, 44K engagements
"How Thatcher and Reagan Built the Billionaire World Order They promised to save capitalism and ended up creating the billionaire world order. This video breaks down how Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan turned economic theory from the University of Chicago into a global system that transferred power from governments to markets and from citizens to billionaires. From deregulation tax cuts and privatization to the global spread of neoliberalism through the IMF and the Chicago Boys in Chile this is the untold story of how the 1980s reshaped money power and inequality and why were still living"
YouTube Link 2025-10-06T15:00Z 51.9K followers, 15.7K engagements
"How Ponzi promised 50% returns in [--] days How #Ponzi promised 50% returns in [--] days Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-13T00:55Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"How the U.S. turned war into a business model How the U.S. turned war into a business model Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How did Sparta use money to control its enemies What would #Aristotle do in an economic crisis Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-11T01:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"What really happened at Jekyll Island in [----] What really happened at Jekyll Island in [----] Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-02T14:03Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Tariffs: The Hidden Tax Youre Already Paying Tariffs: The Hidden Tax Youre Already Paying Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money #yamashita"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T18:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How the dollar became pure trust not gold How the dollar became pure trust not gold Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T23:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Why banking laws never protect you Why banking laws never protect you Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-17T15:21Z 32.8K followers, 12K engagements
"Why even geniuses lost fortunes in [----] Why even geniuses lost fortunes in [----] Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T14:03Z 34.6K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Where did money actually begin Spoiler: it wasn't gold. Financial History in [--] seconds Where did money actually begin Spoiler: it wasn't gold. Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-07-30T14:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Did Yamashita really hide tons of gold Did #Yamashita really hide tons of #gold Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-31T14:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How did Spain lose its treasure How did Spain lose its treasure Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-16T01:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"When America Stole Its Citizens Gold In [----] the U.S. government made it illegal for citizens to own gold. Under threat of prison and massive fines Americans were forced to hand over their savings only to see the dollar devalued weeks later. This video from The Financial Historian uncovers how Roosevelts Executive Order [----] turned private wealth into government profit why banks were saved while ordinary people lost everything and how this precedent still shapes the financial system today. History shows that when the system is in danger the rules of money can change overnight. If they could"
YouTube Link 2025-10-01T15:01Z 42.6K followers, [---] engagements
"How rich would you have been if you owned livestock in Mesopotamia How rich would you have been if you owned livestock in Mesopotamia Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-17T05:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Why crime families ran their gangs like corporations Why crime families ran their gangs like corporations Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How the Rich Protected Their Fortunes in Ancient Times For thousands of years the worlds elite have played a different game with money one they never teach in school. From the palaces of Babylon to the marble halls of Rome the rich knew that wealth wasnt just gold or land it was power leverage and survival. While empires rose and fell their fortunes endured. How In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden strategies ancient elites used to protect their wealth through wars political upheavals and economic collapse. Youll learn how temple estates acted as early banks in"
YouTube Link 2025-08-12T18:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How did inflation catapult Hitler to power Financial History in [--] seconds How did inflation catapult Hitler to power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T20:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"The Basel Rules: How Banks Quietly Rewrote Global Finance They were never elected. They dont appear on ballots. Yet from a quiet room in Switzerland they wrote the rules that decide how much risk the entire global banking system can take. The Basel Accords reshaped finance turning regulation into power. What began as a safety measure after one bank collapse in [----] evolved into the invisible architecture that dictates how much your bank can lend how governments fund themselves and why financial crises keep repeating under new names. In this episode of The Financial Historian we break down"
YouTube Link 2025-10-13T15:00Z 56.9K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Why the Bolsheviks couldnt find the tsars treasure Why the Bolsheviks couldnt find the tsars treasure Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-30T23:02Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements
"Did the Templars invent the first credit card Did the #Templars invent the first credit card Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-13T16:15Z 30K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Peaky Blinders: How Street Gangs Became Corporate Empires The Peaky Blinders werent just street thugs in Birmingham they were the beginning of a larger story about how gangs evolve into business empires. From back-alley rackets to laundering money through betting shops and pubs they built the blueprint for how organized crime professionalizes into finance. And this isnt just about Birmingham. If this gave you a new perspective hit subscribe. History doesnt repeat but if you dont understand it itll crush you all the same. #TheFinancialHistorian #economicHistory #financialEducation"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T15:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1982: the night Mexico told the world we cant pay 1982: the night Mexico told the world we cant pay Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T14:36Z 23.5K followers, 22.7K engagements
"The bankers who built the British Empire The bankers who built the British Empire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-28T13:03Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"How true is the myth of the lost Templar treasure How true is the myth of the lost #Templar #treasure Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-15T13:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"How rich was a Roman senator vs. todays billionaire How rich was a Roman senator vs. todays billionaire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-08T15:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The dot-com crash explained in [--] seconds U.S. debt just passed $34 trillion why it looks like Rome before collapse Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T01:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"How did the dollar become ruler of the global economy How did the dollar become ruler of the global economy Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-18T04:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"When Democracy Became a Business Model Democracy is supposed to be about the people. One person one vote. But somewhere along the way it stopped being just a political system and became a business model. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how elections turned into multi-billion-dollar industries where political parties operate like corporations campaigns work like marketing agencies and your vote is treated like a customer transaction. From ancient Athens to the age of big tech the story of democracy has always been tied to money and power. But in the modern era campaign"
YouTube Link 2025-08-15T15:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"What happens if the U.S. cant pay its debt What happens if the U.S. cant pay its debt Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-19T20:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Weimar Germany: when bread cost billions Weimar Germany: when bread cost billions Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-10T14:03Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Historys Oldest Trick: When Elites Spend The Poor Pay Historys Oldest Trick: When Elites Spend The Poor Pay Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money #taxcuts"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T22:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How debt turned into the ultimate financial product How debt turned into the ultimate financial product Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-04T23:02Z 20.4K followers, 12.4K engagements
"How London bankers ruled the world How London bankers ruled the world Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T02:02Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements
"Romes forgotten trick to stabilize money Romes forgotten trick to stabilize money Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-05T17:04Z 20.4K followers, 12.9K engagements
"How Birmingham gangs built business empires How Birmingham gangs built business empires Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What happened to the lost fortune of the Templars What happened to the lost #fortune of the #Templars Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-13T23:02Z 28.1K followers, 13.4K engagements
"Why finance decided World War I before soldiers did Why finance decided World War I before soldiers did Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #ww1"
YouTube Link 2025-08-23T23:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Why finance was Britains greatest weapon Why finance was Britains greatest weapon Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T00:02Z 13.2K followers, 21.9K engagements
"How Greece Almost Lost Everything in [----] Welcome to Financial Historian today we will examine how a modern European nation came within days of financial crisis. The video dives into the economics of the situation where banks shut their doors cash withdrawals were rationed and the country was on the verge of default. The video explains how the economy of european union future almost didn't happen. 💰 Lessons in money debt capital and control told through the rise and fall of those who mastered (or mismanaged) it. Learn how wealth is created lost and weaponized. Because history doesnt repeat"
YouTube Link 2025-08-06T07:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Why did the Church fear the Templar banking system Why did the #Church fear the #Templar banking system Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-14T20:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Marcus Aurelius With a Credit Card Stoic Finance for Modern Chaos Marcus Aurelius With a Credit Card Stoic Finance for Modern Chaos Welcome to Financial Historian where money power and history collide. Ever wondered how empires financed wars why inflation keeps draining your wallet or how ancient financial systems still shape our economy today We break down the real mechanics behind wealth and collapse from Roman debt crises to modern monetary policy. This is financial history with purpose: decoding past mistakes to build present freedom. 💰 Lessons in money debt capital and control told"
YouTube Link 2025-08-03T20:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How bankers secretly designed the Federal Reserve How bankers secretly designed the Federal Reserve Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-02T19:19Z 13.2K followers, 19.9K engagements
"Who got rich during the medieval pandemic Financial History in [--] seconds Who got rich during the medieval pandemic Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-02T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"How governments rig the game against savers How governments rig the game against savers Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T01:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Economics Behind the French Revolution The French Revolution wasnt just about liberty equality and fraternity. It began with debt inflation and bread that cost more than wages. By the late 1700s Frances monarchy was drowning in war debt its tax system protected the nobility while crushing the poor and failed harvests pushed food prices beyond reach. When the financial system collapsed the monarchy fell with it. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover the hidden economics behind the French Revolution: how a broken tax system and reckless borrowing bankrupted the Crown why"
YouTube Link 2025-09-20T15:01Z 45.1K followers, 34.8K engagements
"How the South Sea Bubble Fooled the Worlds Smartest Investors In [----] Britains most powerful men and even Isaac Newton himself were ruined in one of historys greatest financial disasters: the South Sea Bubble. Shares skyrocketed a thousand percent on promises of unimaginable trade riches only to collapse in months wiping out fortunes across the nation. The scandal revealed how governments banks and elites fuel economic bubbles and how ordinary investors are always left holding the bag. In this episode of The Financial Historian we break down how the South Sea Company turned national debt into"
YouTube Link 2025-09-18T16:47Z 40K followers, 27.1K engagements
"The legal loopholes that save banks every time The legal loopholes that save banks every time Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-17T22:38Z 32.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"How the Yakuza turned crime into corporations How the Yakuza turned crime into corporations Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-06T15:42Z 23.5K followers, 12.5K engagements
"What finally financially destroyed Ancient Greece What finally financially destroyed #Ancient #Greece Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-11T22:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"When America Stole Its Citizens Gold In [----] the U.S. government made it illegal for citizens to own gold. Under threat of prison and massive fines Americans were forced to hand over their savings only to see the dollar devalued weeks later. This video from The Financial Historian uncovers how Roosevelts Executive Order [----] turned private wealth into government profit why banks were saved while ordinary people lost everything and how this precedent still shapes the financial system today. History shows that when the system is in danger the rules of money can change overnight. If they could"
YouTube Link 2025-10-01T15:42Z 51.9K followers, 35.3K engagements
"Why money today isnt real value Why money today isnt real value Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T18:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"How financially free were feudal peasants Financial History in [--] seconds How financially free were feudal peasants Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-02T18:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"What If Money Disappeared Tomorrow From Collapse to Crypto What happens if money the foundation of our financial system vanishes overnight History has seen it before from the fall of Rome to the wheelbarrows of worthless cash in Weimar Germany from Zimbabwes one-hundred-trillion-dollar bills to Venezuelas desperate barter economy. In this episode of The Financial Historian we uncover how nations empires and ordinary people react when currency collapses and what really survives when paper and pixels lose their power. This is more than economic history its financial education for anyone who"
YouTube Link 2025-08-11T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The wars that made Wall Street richer The wars that made Wall Street richer Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T20:02Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"5 Money Rules the Romans Lived By And We Forgot Thanks for all the support lately Please give this video some hype next to the commentaries 💬⚡ The Romans built the richest empire in history and bankrupted it with the same financial mistakes were making today. From debt and inflation to luxury addiction and political money the Roman economy became the blueprint for every empire that came after. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the five money rules that built Rome sustained its power and ultimately destroyed it. Learn how propaganda coins runaway spending and moral decay turned"
YouTube Link 2025-10-11T15:01Z 56.9K followers, 17.7K engagements
"The hidden business empire of Japans Yakuza The hidden business empire of Japans Yakuza Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money #Yakuza"
YouTube Link 2025-09-06T18:02Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements
"How deep in debt was Napoleon Financial History How deep in debt was Napoleon Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-07-29T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Could America survive a Mexico-style peso collapse Could America survive a Mexico-style peso collapse Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T23:02Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"France went bankrupt before the Revolutiondid you know Financial History in [--] seconds #France went bankrupt before the #Revolutiondid you know Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-01T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Why did the Greeks distrust economic power Why did the #Greeks distrust economic power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-09T20:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Zimbabwe 2008: banknotes worth less than paper Zimbabwe 2008: banknotes worth less than paper Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-10T18:03Z 25.9K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Why your grandparents fell for the same scams Why your grandparents fell for the same scams Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-05T18:03Z 20.4K followers, 13.5K engagements
"How Russias gold vanished during the Revolution How Russias gold vanished during the Revolution Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-30T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What Chinas devaluation teaches about power What Chinas devaluation teaches about power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T20:51Z 32K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Why inflation broke the Roman Empire Why inflation broke the Roman Empire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T18:03Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements
"How China kept exports cheap with devaluation How #China kept exports cheap with devaluation Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T20:42Z 31.6K followers, [----] engagements
"How one family bankrolled Europes empires How one family bankrolled Europes empires Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-20T21:49Z 34.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Richest Religion in America: How the Mormons Built Their Fortune The Mormon Church isnt just a religion its one of the most powerful financial machines in America. With billions hidden in secret investment funds vast real estate holdings across the U.S. and a tax-exempt empire that rivals the wealth of Wall Street the LDS Church has quietly become the richest religion in America. But how did they build this fortune From early persecution and the drive to establish Zion to disciplined tithing secretive hedge-fund style management and a whistleblower who revealed more than $100 billion"
YouTube Link 2025-09-29T15:01Z 46.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Why the IMF had to rescue Mexicos peso crash Why the #IMF had to rescue #Mexicos peso crash Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T18:44Z 23.5K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Why the petrodollar became Americas secret weapon Why the petrodollar became Americas secret weapon Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T23:02Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Tulip Mania: when one flower cost more than a house Tulip Mania: when one flower cost more than a house Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-20T22:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"How bad money destroyed Romes power How bad money destroyed Romes power Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Secret Deals That Made the Petrodollar King The U.S. dollar didnt become the worlds king by accident. It was built in secret. In [----] U.S. officials and Saudi royals struck a hidden bargain that reshaped the global economy. Oil the lifeblood of modern civilization would only be sold in dollars. In return America guaranteed Saudi security and recycled oil profits through Wall Street. This petrodollar system replaced gold with oil as the backbone of U.S. power forcing every nation on earth to hold dollars just to keep the lights on. This video uncovers the secret history of the petrodollar:"
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T15:01Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements
"How did the Templars use money to manipulate kings How did the #Templars use money to #manipulate #kings Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-13T23:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Economic Bubbles That Rocked the World From Tulips to NFTs Every generation thinks their financial revolution is different. But from Dutch tulips in the seventeenth century to crypto coins and NFTs today the story of economic bubbles has always been the same: hype greed and collapse. In this episode of The Financial Historian we trace the wildest bubbles in economic history Tulip Mania the South Sea Company the [----] stock market crash the dot-com boom the housing crisis and the rise of digital speculation. This isnt just history. Its financial education. These stories reveal how money and"
YouTube Link 2025-08-20T15:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Can You Spot the Next Bubble Before It Pops Every generation thinks its smarter than the last right up until the bubble pops. From Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble to the dot-com crash housing collapse and the rise of crypto and NFTs history keeps teaching the same financial lesson: greed always finds a new disguise. This episode of The Financial Historian exposes how financial bubbles form why they always repeat and how to spot the warning signs before the next crash. Youll see the same patterns of inflation debt speculation and storytelling that have shaped centuries of economic history"
YouTube Link 2025-10-08T15:01Z 51.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Why could a Roman slave be worth more than your annual salary Why could a Roman slave be worth more than your annual salary Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-16T13:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"High Fashion for the Fhrer: The Dark Business of Nazi Luxury While Europe starved Nazi officers wore Hugo Boss uniforms drove Mercedes-Benz cars and looted art from across the continent. The Third Reich didnt just build an army it built a luxury economy. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the dark business behind Nazi fashion propaganda and corporate collaboration how global brands like Hugo Boss BMW Mercedes and Chanel profited from forced labor looting and image-making. Its a story about how aesthetics became power and how wealth and propaganda fused to build one of the most"
YouTube Link 2025-10-10T15:01Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Napoleon rebuilt Frances banking systemand changed modern finance forever. Financial History Napoleon rebuilt Frances banking systemand changed modern finance forever. Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #RomanEmpire #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-07-30T23:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"NFTs werent the first bubble not even close NFTs werent the first bubble not even close Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T02:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The dot-com crash explained in [--] seconds The dot-com crash explained in [--] seconds Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T00:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Debt forgiveness: the ancient reset button Debt forgiveness: the ancient reset button Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-07T14:02Z 20.4K followers, 10.7K engagements
"The IMF loan trap: debt that never ends The IMF loan trap: debt that never ends Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-20T15:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Who Really Pays for Trumps Tariffs Tariffs arent making rivals pay theyre making you pay. In this episode of The Financial Historian we expose how Trumps Big Beautiful tax cuts for the wealthy are quietly balanced by tariffs that hit ordinary households. From Wall Street boardrooms to Walmart receipts history shows who really carries the cost. If this gave you a new perspective hit subscribe. History has the answers Ill show you where to look. #financialhistory #tariffs #taxcuts #financeexplained #historyofmoney #financialdocumentary #hiddenhistory #economicpolicy"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T15:01Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"How the U.S. turned war into a business model Wars dont just change borders they reshape money and power. From World War I bonds to the Vietnam inflation spiral from the petrodollar to the trillion-dollar War on Terror every conflict has been a financial opportunity for those who knew how to profit. Meanwhile ordinary people paid the price through taxes inflation and lost wealth. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers the hidden financial system behind modern wars and how the same tactics still shape your cost of living your debt and your financial freedom today. Understanding this"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T15:01Z 32.8K followers, 57.7K engagements
"Black Markets and Gold: The Hidden Economy of Survival When money collapses the economy doesnt die it just goes underground. From Weimar Germany to Venezuela from the Soviet Union to modern inflation the same pattern repeats: people stop trusting their governments and start trusting gold. This episode of The Financial Historian uncovers how black markets rise in every crisis how they quietly sustain life when official systems fail and why gold has always been the true currency of survival. Learn how underground trade reveals the real price of things how elites and ordinary citizens alike turn"
YouTube Link 2025-10-12T15:01Z 56.9K followers, 15.1K engagements
"What the South Sea Bubble teaches about hype What the South Sea Bubble teaches about hype Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T18:03Z 35.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Would Socrates have used a credit card Would #Socrates have used a credit card Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-10T00:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Was inequality baked into Greek democracy Was inequality baked into #Greek #democracy Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #AncientEconomics #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian"
YouTube Link 2025-08-11T21:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Why faith became a financial empire Why faith became a financial empire Sixty seconds to see how money builtand brokethe world you live in. Follow for more. #FinancialHistory #MoneyLessons #FinancialHistorian #money"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T00:44Z 31.1K followers, [----] engagements
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