Sometimes, the fun part about the Internet is when it juxtaposes two stories that tell you more about the world together than either can separately.

Take my video podcast feed today:

First, an interesting argument from Alex Tabarrok at TED: demonstrating how much better the world is, post-Great Depression, than even the best economists of the 1920s could have predicted. Economic growth through globalization, he argues (and argues well), can cure the ills of any economic crisis.

Second, the Onion News Network with a report on their latest reality show, Auto Warriors, in which two factories compete against each other to see which one will survive plant closures.

Really, watch them both back-to-back.