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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Jun 28, 2022 • 28min
This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversation with the FT's Brooke Masters Part Two
We're back with more of our conversation with Brooke Masters, the Chief Business Commentator and Associate Editor of the Financial Times. (Repeat.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 20, 2022 • 39min
Crypto's Collapse
This week we salvage what's left of the crypto bubble and delve into the recent dollar devaluations of stable coins with our guest Kenny Estes, founder of Diffuse Digital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 13, 2022 • 20min
The World is Full of Pyramids: Our Conversation with the FT's Brooke Masters Part One
Today we have our first of two episodes featuring Brooke Masters, the Chief Business Commentator and Associate Editor of the Financial Times. (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 6, 2022 • 29min
Dry Powder
Today we will not be powdering your nose, but be sprinkling our conversation with a little dry powder. That's cash or marketable securities that look like it's low risk and highly liquid and convertible to cash, but needs to be put to work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 30, 2022 • 29min
Shark Fins
This week we're going to be jumping the shark. That is we're going to be looking at why tech companies and their success, their growth, their user numbers often resemble a shark fin: how they scale up really fast, then taper off then fall really, really fast in a straight line all the way down. (Repeat) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 23, 2022 • 34min
Buy. Borrow. Die.
Today, we're treading deep in some chicken sh*t with Propublica investigative journalist Jesse Eisenger.Visit https://www.bubbletroublepodcast.com/ for the transcript for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 16, 2022 • 35min
Muscles in Brussels
Recently, in the most European city of Brussels, there was mingling with the finest folks in competition law and economics. They were all trying to figure out if, and how, tech should be regulated. Will and Richard discuss.Visit https://www.bubbletroublepodcast.com/ for the transcript for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 9, 2022 • 47min
Analyst Notes, The Black Art of Price Targeting, and Twitter with guest Aman Verjee
Today, we target those analysts notes that tell us what they think the price should be and how much faith we should put in that moving target. We have Aman Verjee who served as a VP of Paypal from 2002 to 2010 and was first to call out the price target fiasco behind Twitter's defense of Elon's hostile takeover.Visit https://www.bubbletroublepodcast.com/ for the transcript for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 2, 2022 • 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.Visit https://www.bubbletroublepodcast.com/ for the transcript for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 26, 2022 • 36min
NFTs - They're Not For Me
Every March music, film and tech converge on this blue liberal island of Austin in a red Republican sea of Texas for the South By Southwest conference. This week, we'll get Will Page’s impressions of the bubbles gathering around that island and what tsunami warning horns ought to be blaring when we talk about NFTs.Visit https://www.bubbletroublepodcast.com/ for the transcript for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
