In business, one of the things that i always tried to do was push the decision down to the people who were actually using what we were talking about. The beauty of having my own firm is i can say, no, that's bacet crazy. Complex, adaptive, emergent behaviour comes from the bottom, not the top. We're deterministic thinkers living in a probablistic world. Hilarity or tragedy often ensue. In this particular industry, it's not necessarily about what people know. It's about trying to understand motivations between people and what's driving them in individual decisions. And so much of what happens in financing markets are driven by these individual decisions. Collectively
Tracy Alloway is the co-host of the Odd Lots podcast and a managing editor at Bloomberg Markets. You can follow Tracy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tracyalloway and listen to her podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1te7oSFyRVekxMBJUSethH Show Notes:
- Financial crisis hindsight
- Being obsessed with risk and systemic stability
- Historical parallels to the crisis of ‘08
- Macro vs. micro bullshitting
- Why people refuse to say “I don't know”
- Victorian chicken bubble
- Tales of forensic accounting
- NFTs being used to launder money?
- NFTs’ path to success
- Insights from collapse of previous civilizations
- Understanding the Human OS
- Fair Wages for Robots
- Praise for Citi’s Matt King and Credit Suisse’s Zoltan Pozsar