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Quantitative Easing Explained
malekanoms · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2011–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 25 other explainer videos tagged Macroeconomics & financial crises, the mean is 4.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 4.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
40% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2011–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 6 minutes 49 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2010-11-11.
- Channel / speaker
- malekanoms
- Verified runtime
- 6m 49s
- YouTube upload date
- 2010-11-11
- Hacker News mention years
- 2011–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Macroeconomics & financial crises. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Easing ExplainedCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 40% | — | 6m 49s | 2010-11-11 |
| How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalioexplainer · Principles by Ray Dalio | 18 | 17 | 90% | No recorded overlap | 31m 0s | 2013-09-22 |
| Why American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]explainer · Not Just Bikes | 14 | 10 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 9m 39s | 2021-01-11 |
| Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBCexplainer · BBC | 10 | 12 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 4m 48s | 2010-11-26 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a joke in “Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a critical mention in “Groupon is a straight-up Ponzi scheme”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks”. Its short rationale: Cited regarding quantitative easing and fiat currency.