Robinhood and His Merry Memes

Poor Standards: This week we look into rating agencies and ask: Why were they invented? What is their purpose? Who pays their wages? by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

26 min listen

To Bundle or Not to Unbundle: This week, to bundle or not to bundle. If we are all now content creators, how are we all supposed to get paid? by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

25 min listen

The Charade of the Earnings Call: This week we explore the charade of the earnings call--that quarterly bit of theater that often helps stoke bubbles and creates trouble. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

24 min listen

Building Block #5: 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? Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page and financial analyst... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

28 min listen

Welcome to Bubble Trouble: Trailer for Bubble Trouble, coming soon. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

1 min listen

Facing the Music: The UK parliament has dug deep into the economics of music streaming, licensing, and what artists get paid. We'll look at what they discovered and the knock-on effect throughout the rest of the world. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

28 min listen

Talking Your Own Book: This week: talking your own book. Those analysts outside the company and those executives inside the company, who are long and loud about their views of their own stock. Why so long? Why so loud? Why should we listen to them? And if we do listen to... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

24 min listen

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

34 min listen

Building Block #4: 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... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

46 min listen

Building Block #3: Themes and Dreams: This time we look at the themes and dreams that markets put out there to attract the investor's dollar. If it's too good to be true, are we in dreamland? Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page and financial analyst Richard... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

32 min listen

Building Block #2: Too Smooth To Be True: This time, we're going to talk about how market trends are all too often too smooth to be true. What might that mean? Well, life isn't as predictable as it might first appear, meaning those unpredictable events may have been planned all along. "Great... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

28 min listen

Hyper Competition: This week we look at the tremendous explosion in cultural production--content creation and hyper competition. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

25 min listen

To SPACS and Back: This week we're going to go to SPACs and back, and that's an acronym. It's an acronym that sounds strange, sounds unfamiliar, sounds technical. We'll explain what they are and why they getting so much attention. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

27 min listen

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

27 min listen

Building Block #1: Sycophants and Stenographers: 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. Bubble... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

27 min listen

Paul Sanders on Hyper-competition: This week we kick off a series on episodes on hyper-competition (the point where quantity goes up and quality goes down) with the man who coined the term, Paul Sanders of state51. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

33 min listen

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

29 min listen

James Cridland on Hyper-competition in Podcasting: This episode we're back into hyper-competition, speaking with Podnews editor James Cridland. We have some real-time thinking, some real-time podcasting about a problem that we've yet to solve...that problem being, is there too much choice? And to... by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

35 min listen

Will's Favorite Episode of 2021: Andrew Savikas on Hyper-competition in the Book Industry: For the last two episodes of the year, we’re looking back at favorite episodes for both Richard and Will. This week, Will’s favorite: their interview with Andrew Savikas on hyper competition in the book industry. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

32 min listen

Robinhood and His Merry Memes: In this episode we go deep on Robinhood and the gamification of retail investing. Is it a passing fad that rescued us from boredom during lockdown, or, and it's a big question, a new foundation for how markets will work in the future? by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

22 min listen

Poor Standards: This week we look into rating agencies and ask: Why were they invented? What is their purpose? Who pays their wages? by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

26 min listen

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

39 min listen

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

30 min listen

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

26 min listen

Sucking on Subsidies: This week, sucking on subsidies. Government grants, fat contracts, tax credits, state aid, all the cash a company didn't generate on its own. Does it help? Or does it stoke up problems for a future date? by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

30 min listen

SPACs Are This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversastion with the FT's Brooke Masters Part Two: SPACs Are This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversastion with the FT's Brooke Masters Part Two by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

28 min listen

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

20 min listen

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

38 min listen

Is This The Next Housing Bubble? Daryl Fairweather on Hyper-competition in Housing: We're back to blowing bubbles in the housing market with Daryl Fairweather, an acclaimed economist from Redfin, where we ask if the double-digit grow in housing prices indicates another bubble. by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

31 min listen

The Theranos Bubble: Today we look back Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Was this a unique case of "faking it until you make it" or this what everyone in tech does? by Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

28 min listen

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