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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Sep 5, 2022 • 27min
Someone Else's Money
This time we discuss the most important subject of them all: money. More importantly, someone else's money. We'll get to the basics. Where does money even come from? (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 29, 2022 • 27min
Stenographers and Sycophants
We talk about financial analysts and why it's sometimes more accurate to call them sycophants and stenographers, and how these analysts become cheerleaders of the companies they're supposed to cover. They praise as opposed to appraise. (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 22, 2022 • 30min
Peak FOMO
We're back to blowing bubbles, the original source of this inspirational podcast, and we deep dive into the force that's driving markets to record highs. Peak FOMO, fear of missing out. (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 15, 2022 • 44min
Achieving Presence: More Meta-Troubles with Seth Gerson
On this episode, we’re going to keep this deep dive on the metaverse going with another doer, not a thinker--a three-stripe veteran of the gaming industry whose career dates back to Sega in the early 90’s, Survios CEO Seth Gerson.We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 8, 2022 • 47min
Newspaper Subscriptions Versus Music Subscriptions
This week we talk about subscriptions, specifically how the subscription business model in newspapers struggles, while half a billion people are willing to pay subscription fees for music.We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 1, 2022 • 32min
Metaverse Perceptions versus Reality
This week we're gonna blow the halftime whistle on our travels into the metaverse on Bubble Trouble. Today Will quizes Richard: Is the metaverse the next big thing? Or are we back in bubble trouble? What's the perception and where's the reality. If Richard was at a casino sitting behind Zuckerberg, watching him put all his chips on metaverse, would Richard be leaning over and moving his arm in the same direction--or would he be thinking that this isn't gonna work out well?We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 25, 2022 • 36min
Metaverse...Curb Your Enthusiasm with Eric Kress
This week we continue to deconstruct the metaverse with our brilliant Eric Kress of Gossamer Consulting Group, an independent research boutique that provides investors and industry clients with primary research on console mobile and other related technology companies.We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 18, 2022 • 31min
The Metaverse and Virtual Experiences with AmazeVR's Ernest Lee
We’re going to keep this deep dive on the Metaverse going with a doer, not a thinker - someone with skin in the game, bacon not eggs! AmazeVR had longer queues at SXSW than any live band and there’s a reason for that: they are the real deal. We have the founder and CEO Ernest Lee.We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 11, 2022 • 25min
Hyper-competition in Advertising with Mike Follett
On this episode, we're in conversation with our third special guest, the source of truth and the mad men and women of advertising, Mr. Mike Follett. The point where quantity goes up and quality goes down, we call that hyper competition, and certainly there's a lot of advertising competing for our time. (Repeat)We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 4, 2022 • 34min
Meta-Troubles with guest Yoshio Osaki
This week, and in coming weeks, the Bubble Trouble team will turn our attention to the phase dejour, the bait of all click baits, the mother of all bubbles--the Metaverse. We’re going to begin this deep dive at the beginning and invite Yoshio Osaki, founder of the respected IDG Consulting group.We’d really appreciate if you could take just a few minutes to fill out our listener survey. Please visit survey.prx.org/bubble to give feedback on the show. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
