Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work
Magnificent Noise x Richard Kramer x Will Page
Bubble Trouble features conversations between economist and author Will Page and independent analyst Richard Kramer that lay out some inconvenient truths about how financial markets really work. Like the “boy who cried wolf,” financial markets have a peculiar tendency to repeat past mistakes and get themselves into “bubble trouble.” They party hard, drink too much of the Kool Aid, and wake up with a pounding hangover...only to do the same thing the next day. With tech dominating daily headlines and teenage traders driving stocks to unprecedented valuations, you might be asking “What’s really going on?” “What am I missing?” Imagine having a set of tour guides to tell you the “story behind the story” of the world’s largest tech companies, and how they bend - or break - the rules of economics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 21, 2023 • 31min
First Cut is The Deepest
This week’s episode will “cut like a knife” (pun intended) in that we’re going to make sense of the headcount reductions and cost-cutting strategies we’re witnessing across tech large and small. First cut is the deepest, sung by Cat Stevens, then Rod Stewart, but there’s more than one verse to that song. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 6, 2023 • 37min
Troubles with Podcast Bubbles with guest Lauren Jarvis
This week we look into the spectacular rise and potential plateau of a not so new medium...our very own: the podcast. Staying power or flash in the pan? Hit driven or long tail smorgasboard of choices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 30, 2023 • 37min
A Call for Activism
This week, we look at that special ‘class’ of investors who are busy raising their heads again to challenge management in a time of turmoil - the activist. Who are they, what gives them power and when they wield that power what’s the fall out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 23, 2023 • 37min
Pivot
We don't do shameless plugs here on Bubble Trouble, but we're making an exception for our esteem co-host Will Page on the publication of the paperback edition of Tarzan Economics, renamed Pivot: Eight Principles for Transforming your Business in a Time of Disruption. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 9, 2023 • 41min
Passing the Tech Ethics "Hot Potato" with Stephanie Hare
Today we wrestle with ethics and technology. Stephanie Hare's wonderful new book. Technology Is Not Neutral, gives us a much needed framework for thinking about how the technologies we interact with every day affect our moral lives more. (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 2, 2023 • 46min
Has Innovation Moved The House? with guest Dror Poleg
One of the giant bubbles of the last decades has been real estate, and for this week's episode we’re looking forward, not backward, with Dror Poleg, an economic historian and an inspirational thinker who is figuring out how we work, where we work and what work we’ll be working on in this post-pandemic world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 26, 2022 • 34min
Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
With all the emphasis on hard metrics and financials, it's often easy to overlook the culture of companies and the role it plays in their success (or failure). (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 19, 2022 • 40min
Conversation with a Virtual Llama Owner with guest Clément Pouget.eth-Osmont
In our last new episode of 2022, we talk with Clément Pouget.eth-Osmont, whose post on LinkedIn mocking the dubious NFTs ratcheted up a record 8 million impressions. We ask: Where do NFTs go from here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 12, 2022 • 45min
Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow Part Two
Today we have our second episode with Cory Doctorow, co-author of Chokepoint Capitalism. In this second installment, we dig deep into copyright and how artists can take back control of their precious works. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 5, 2022 • 32min
Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow Part One
Today we welcome the co-author (along with Rebecca Giblin) of Chokepoint Capitalism Cory Doctorow over two episodes. In this first installment, we focus on market structures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
