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
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...
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We're Taking A Break!
After 138 episodes and almost four years to the day since we recorded our first one, Will and Richard have decided to take a short break.
We do...
An X-Rated Account of Twitter with Kurt Wagner
Who doesn’t like to talk about Twitter and Tweets? Word of mouth (or tweet) is the secret sauce of its success. But has it ever been successful? And i...
Tectonic Shifts in TV with Doug Shapiro
This week let’s settle back to our sofas, grab our remote controls and work out what to watch with Doug Shapiro, among the most prominent voices in th...
Mapping the Terrain w/ Dror Poleg
In this episode of Bubble Trouble, hosts Richard Kramer and Will Page return with guest Dror Poleg, an expert in real estate and economic history. The...
All Your Eggs in One Big Tech Basket [Repeat]
This week we get into portfolio theory, or lack of, as for many the rush to big tech and wilful ignorance of everything else Wall Street has to offer...
Taking Stock Before a Bubbly Year
We have had over 30 episodes of Bubble Trouble this year, and had some real highlights along with a mad world we are living in. And now after a predic...
Into the Future with Benedict Evans
Back by popular demand, returning guest Benedict Evans to help us work out where we’ll be a year from now. This is our first predictions show, and Ben...
Why Stocks Get Whacked
When markets get fooled, stocks get …well, WHACKED, to quote a famous Kramerism. Our audience deserves to know more about volatility - for all the PhD...
How Much Is Copyright Worth?
In the last couple episodes, we've looked at the property market, we've looked at the demise of Credit Suisse, but now we're gonna go one-on-one with...
Learning From A Doer: A Conversation with Roger Madelin
Today we are going deep with a real creator. No, not one of the avatars of AI influencers in the creator economy, but someone who builds things that t...
The Meltdown of Credit Suisse w/ Duncan Mavin
On Bubble Trouble, we are never short of subject matter: from the metaverse, NFTs and Chinese real estate, to Silicon Valley Bank and er… that small i...
Fiscal Drag Queen
This week, we’re talking taxes. Don’t switch off, don’t fall asleep and please don’t hire an accountant as the next 45 minutes will defy the laws of g...
Sonic Shifts: How Tech and Culture are Changing the Music Industry with Mark Mulligan
This week we welcome Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research who has had a ringside seat for years and years of bubbles, be it the creator economy, NFTs or AI...
New Media Overtaking Old Media with Lauren Jarvis
Podcasts are having another moment: Trump on Joe Rogan, Kamala on Call Her Daddy. New media is overtaking old media in audience and influence. Back i...
Solving for X
Repeat from November, 2023.
For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubbletroublepodcast.com
When Companies Outgrow Countries
The past week has seen US stocks–and gold, btw–rally to record highs. This week, we’re going to apply the magnifying glass to the ‘Magnificent Seven’...
BT 128 Labour’s 100 Days: No Bubbles, Some Troubles
We thought we’d get a little political on this week’s show. Are we serving up a bubble that was a landslide UK election, or is the new government trou...
Open AI: For What It's Worth
We always try to flag the smoke signals of mischievous market behaviour that gets society and stock portfolios into trouble. Are we about to get fool...
You Can't Lead If You Don't Know Where You're Going: Big Tech vs Big Gov Tech with Bill Raduchel
This week we speak with Bill Raduchel, who has served as a high-level executive and strategic adviser for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, AOL...
Law Without Lawyers: A Conversation with Damien Riehl
One of the first casualties of the AI race may be lawyers, and that’s where we go this week with Damien Riehl who is at the front line of disrupting t...
AI Supremacy and Ethical Dilemmas: A Conversation with Parmy Olson
Today we’ve got a page turner…not that Page, our co-presenter…but a book that brings the AI battle to life: Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That W...
Definitely (Maybe) Dynamic Booms and Busts
We’re back from summer break and we want to revisit some past pods as they get dragged into the current of current events, making our predictions as g...
Constructing Bubbles with David Trainer
This week we’re going to keep on pricking bubbles with a fellow cynic of the sycophants and stenographers. Here to help us is David Trainer of New Con...
Reddit and Weep
So let's look forward and prepare you for the next big sexy blockbuster tech IPO, you’ve read all about it - that’s right. Reddit is going to ring the...
Kill the Chicken to Scare The Monkey with guest Linda Yueh
This week we talk with Linda Yueh, author of the book The Great Crashes. Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered t...
Thames Water gets Whacked with guest Feargal Sharkey
Today, we welcome back Feargal Sharkey, who visited Bubble Trouble last summer and dropped a (water) bomb on our privatized utilities. He’s fought the...
In Conversation with Former Enron CFO Andy Fastow Part Two
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In Conversation with Former Enron CFO Andy Fastow Part One
For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubbletroublepodcast.com
You can learn more about Richa...
The Summer of Discontent
This week, we freeform on two topics: summer music festivals and the stock markets. Will has identified a very interesting bubble this summer, which i...
AI Bubbles are Bursting with Andrew Orlowski
Today we’ve got a guest who's been doing our job for decades. Andrew Orlowski is a writer who has followed the technology industry for two decades, so...
When Bubbles Become Clouds
[Repeat from November, 2023.]
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Calling Bubbles with Benedict Evans (Part Two)
This week, part two of our continued conversation with Benedict Evans, an analyst with over 175,000 avid readers for his tech blog.
For more on...
Calling Bubbles with Benedict Evans (Part One)
This week we are talking bubbles - or not! - with Benedict Evans, an analyst with over 175,000 avid readers for his tech blog. We’ve done our level be...
Tech’s Set Piece Marketing
This week we’re going to split lanes as we’ve got breaking news coming out of Canada that Will’s been knee deep in: soon after their Government tried...
Gatekeepers and Regulatory Bubbles
This week we turn to regulatory bubbles and the new buzz word: Gatekeepers! What are they, and what are they not and what gates do they actually keep?...
DoJ Whacks Ticket Prices
This summer, a lot of us (and our children) will be packing our tents and heading to music festivals and concerts - there is trouble brewing. At one e...
Why Stocks Get Whacked
When markets get fooled, stocks get …well, WHACKED, to quote a famous Kramerism. Our audience deserves to know more about volatility - for all the PhD...
The Post-Bubble World of Podcasting with James Cridland and Jonas Woost
This week, with the world of podcasting descending on London for the Podcast Show, we’re going to turn the tables on ourselves and get a little intros...
An X -Rated Account of Twitter with Kurt Wagner
Who doesn’t like to talk about Twitter and Tweets? Word of mouth (or tweet) is the secret sauce of its success. But has it ever been successful? And i...
Thames Water Gets Whacked with guest Feargal Sharkey
Today, we welcome back Feargal Sharkey, who visited Bubble Trouble last summer and dropped a (water) bomb on our privatized utilities. He’s fought the...