Awesome channel, puts out consistently high quality content and I find the narrator to be better than a vast majority of similar channels who seem to all have the same annoying voice quirks which I think they do intentionally.
Wendover and Asianometry I would expect to both be exceptions. Wendover's delivery, especially for informative content, is among the best I've ever heard.
Yes, through personal experience in the field and maintaining communication and friendships with those still in the industry. I realized a long time ago that the Economist's material is entirely based on second-hand information (think tank, government and NGO reports), mixed in with a few sentences about market liberalization.
I work for a company that makes industrial water filtration systems and his video on water filtration systems for the semiconductor industry still taught me things.
