Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

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Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work episodes

April 18, 2022 When Two Plus Two Equals Two
This week we explore the current craze in the mergers and acquisitions going on just now. And asking, do they actually create additional value? Or is it the case that two plus two does equal two? (Repeat)
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26 min
April 11, 2022 The World Is Addicted to Easy Money with Chris Leonard
We've made quantitative easing easy-ish to understand, now we need to infiltrate the institutions that do that easing: the central banks with the award-winning New York Times journalist and author of the aptly titled best-selling book, Lords of Easy Money, Christopher Leonard.
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38 min
April 04, 2022 Finding Out What's Really Going On with guest Martin Peers
A lot of financial journalism about companies and markets lives and dies based on access. But what are other ways of finding out what's really going on? Joining us this week is Martin Peers, Senior Writer for The Information.
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28 min
March 28, 2022 Where Does Money Come From? with Michael McMahon
Today we bring on the sexy topics of fractional reserve lending and quantitative easing with Michael McMahon from the Bank of England and Oxford University.
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42 min
March 16, 2022 History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes: with guest Kurt Andersen
Joining us this week is writer Kurt Andersen discussing his books Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses.
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32 min
March 07, 2022 Poor Standards
This week we look into rating agencies and ask: Why were they invented? What is their purpose? Who pays their wages? (Repeat)
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27 min
March 02, 2022 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).
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35 min
February 21, 2022 SPACs Are This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversastion with the FT's Brooke Masters Part Two
SPACs Are This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversation with the FT's Brooke Masters Part Two.
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28 min
February 14, 2022 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.
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21 min
February 07, 2022 Paying Attention
This week we look at the vague way in which various groups have measured the concept of time spent or tried to parcel out the attention economy. How do you really measure attention, and even better, how do you measure the quality of attention or time spent in this attention economy? (Repeat)
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31 min

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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…