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1219 episodes transcribedThis year's stock market boom has coincided with a boom in new listings. There have been plenty of IPOs, numerous SPACs, and an uptick in companies do...
Measuring a company's book value is a classic practice among investors seeking to understand how much a firm's actual assets are worth. But what happe...
The IPO of Ant Financial will go down as one of the most extraordinary deals of all time. And in general, Chinese internet companies have been huge wi...
The COVID-19 crisis has pushed central banks around the world into uncharted territory. Typically when we talk about this, it's from the perspective o...
For months now, traders have been positioning for a major volatility spike around the November election. But what are markets really expecting, and ho...
Central banks around the world are increasingly launching pilot projects to explore the possibility of issuing digital currencies. But how would they...
With just two weeks until the election, talks over a stimulus deal remain ongoing, with negotiations having picked up between House Speaker Nancy Pelo...
It's been an extraordinary year for traders of volatility. We had the crisis, we had this incredible surge in retail call options buying, and we have...
For over a century, tobacco stocks have been among the greatest investments in history, consistently outperforming other sectors decade after decade....
In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, you heard a lot of talk about the US becoming like Greece unless the budget deficit were brought under cont...
Interest in quantitative investing strategies continues to grow; however, as the space gets more competitive, making money and winning gets harder and...
One of the guiding lights of Fed policy over the years has been the so-called Neutral Rate of Interest or R*. It's at this rate, theoretically, where...
In a carry trade, an investor borrows money cheaply to buy an asset that yields more. As long as nothing changes overall, the investors get to pocket...
These days it seems like all financial markets are the same big trade. A gold chart looks like a Tesla chart, which looks like an Ethereum chart, whic...
Back in 2017, during the Bitcoin boom, there were a number of different attempts to use blockchain technology to improve a host of businesses and indu...
Crypto is hot this year again. In 2020, we've not only seen a substantial rally across a lot of different coins, there's been an emergency of new expe...
The use of so-called "alternative data" has been gathering attention for some time. Investors have been looking at things like credit cards or satelli...
One of the most intriguing subplots to the 2020 stock market boom has been the speculative fervor with which investors have dived into this market. An...
SPACs have been around a long time. The basic premise is that a group of people raise a bunch of money from public market investors, with the premise...
It's fun to talk about what money is, but often it's hard to connect the dots and make it actually relevant to the discussion of the economy and marke...
