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  1. The Economic Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.

    27 februari 2022 · 18 min

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    Send us a textRussia’s invasion of Ukraine risks disrupting the export of critical commodities and rupturing supply chains. Industries from food to cars and fertilizer makers to aircraft manufacturers will be hit by disruption to exports.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit ou... Lees meer
  2. What Does Being Cut Off From SWIFT Mean For Russia?

    26 februari 2022 · 8 min

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    Send us a textThe US President said on Thursday that the United States and Europe were united in their efforts to confront Russian aggression toward Ukraine with aggressive sanctions. However, there was one area where he suggested that there was some disagreement: SWIFT.The messaging service, called the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, connects more than 11,000 financial institutions around the world. It is viewed as a potential nuclear option in the world o... Lees meer
  3. Meet Razzlekhan - 'The Crocodile of Wall Street'

    13 februari 2022 · 16 min

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    Send us a textA married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in Bitcoin stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever. Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan aka Razzlekhan or The Crocodile of Wall Street, were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.Federal law enforcement officials s... Lees meer
  4. DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Short Selling!

    7 februari 2022 · 13 min

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    Send us a textUS criminal authorities are gathering information on contacts among dozens of short selling hedge funds and research outfits as they investigate possible trading abuses by hedge funds. This comes after complaints from GameStop and AMC Shareholders.The Department of Justice has sent subpoenas asking for information about a list of more than two dozen firms to a smaller group of market participants. Among other things, they are asking for calendar information and communicati... Lees meer
  5. The Consequences of China's Slowdown

    27 januari 2022 · 16 min

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    Send us a textChina’s Economy Is Slowing Which Could Have Big Consequences for the World.Economic output grew four percent in the last quarter, a slowdown from the previous quarter. Growth faltered as home buyers and consumers became more cautious. Construction and property sales have slumped, as the country grapples with power shortages, Covid-related restrictions, a crackdown on a range of companies, and debt troubles in its property sector. Some of those pressures could ease, but China’s e... Lees meer
  6. Private Money and Cryptocurrencies

    19 januari 2022 · 22 min

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    Send us a textIn the United States, the government is not the only entity legally allowed to issue money. Private citizens and businesses are allowed to do so, too, and throughout U.S. history, they have done this. This type of money is referred to as private money, and it had mostly disappeared from circulation until Bitcoin was created in 2009. Today more than eight thousand cryptocurrencies exist, and more are appearing every day.Why were private currencies so popular, and why are they com... Lees meer
  7. Pandemic Real Estate Bubble?

    13 januari 2022 · 20 min

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    Send us a textDuring the pandemic, house prices have increased even faster than they did in the period leading up to the 2007 financial crisis, stoking concern that another dangerous housing bubble is developing. In this week's podcast we compare the current real estate market to the bubble years before the global financial crisis of 2007-2008Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate... Lees meer
  8. Elizabeth Holmes Conviction – Is this a Golden Era of Fraud?

    6 januari 2022 · 15 min

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    Send us a textOn Monday we saw the fraud conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. This conviction we are told in the press has split Silicon Valley. Supporters worry that the spirit of entrepreneurship has been put in ‘jeopardy’ while others say she overstepped boundaries.Tim Draper, a venture capitalist and family friend of Holmes who provided early funding to Theranos, told the New York Times that the outcome made him “concerned that the spirit of entrepreneurship in America is in j... Lees meer
  9. 2021 The Financial Year in Review

    2 januari 2022 · 25 min

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    Send us a textLet’s look back at the big financial events of 2021 and the lessons we learned. 2021 was an exciting year in markets, we had meme stocks, SPACs, hedge fund blow ups and the mainstreaming of crypto. The stock market went from strength to strength this year. The year started out with the short squeezes in GameStop and then AMC.As global economies bounced back from the pandemic, supply chains buckled due to shortages either of goods or people to deliver them. The squeeze on t... Lees meer
  10. Turkey's Rescue Plan - What to Make of Turkey’s Latest Currency Move?

    24 december 2021 · 16 min

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    Send us a textHaving defied internal and external economic logic by repeatedly cutting interest rates, Erdogan opted this week for a new set of measures to stabilize its currency. What should we make of Turkey’s latest currency move?Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our web... Lees meer
  11. Turkey's Unravelling Economy

    21 december 2021 · 20 min

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    Send us a textThe Turkish lira has been in meltdown as President Erdogan rejected warnings on the dangers of his recent interest rate cuts. He vowed that there was “no going back”.The currency, which has lost about 40 per cent of its value against the dollar since the central bank started lowering borrowing costs in September, fell to a new record low of TL18.36 against the dollar on MondayTrading on Turkey’s main stock exchange was halted for the second consecutive session following a ... Lees meer
  12. Evergrande - The Lawsuits Begin!

    17 december 2021 · 10 min

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    Send us a textChinese creditors have sued Evergrande for more than $13 billion dollars in as domestic companies owed money by the property development firm race against offshore bondholders to get paid.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our website: www.onfinance.orgFollow P... Lees meer
  13. Evergrande and Kaisa Default!

    9 december 2021 · 13 min

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    Send us a textLink for next suggested piece: Chinese State Owned Developers Rescue Local Governments! - YouTubeInvestors are waiting for news about tens of millions of dollars of overdue interest payments owed by Chinese Property Developers Evergrande and Kaisa. The firms both appear to be overdue on payments to bond holders. Evergrande's shares closed at a new record low on Wednesday after falling by 5.5% in Hong Kong trade.If, Evergrande did fail to make these payments on time, the stage co... Lees meer
  14. Didi Delisting - Less Than 6 Months After IPO!

    7 december 2021 · 12 min

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    Send us a textJust five months after going public on the New York Stock Exchange, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global said it plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange and pursue a Hong Kong listing as it bends to Chinese regulators angered by its US IPO.“Following careful research, the company will immediately start delisting on the New York stock exchange and start preparations for listing in Hong Kong,” Didi said on its Twitter-like Weibo account on Friday.Didi did not explain it... Lees meer
  15. Short Selling Disasters!

    4 december 2021 · 22 min

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    Send us a textSubscribe to The Daily Upside! (Free Business & Finance Newsletter) https://bit.ly/3lwt7LTShort squeezes have been all over the news this year as retail investors banded together to spoil the fun for hedge funds in some well-known stocks. Short squeezes are not new though, they’ve been around as long as short selling has. In today’s video we look at the most disastrous short selling fails to see what lessons we can learn. These are some of the craziest finance stories you wi... Lees meer
  16. My Investment Plan For 2022!

    1 december 2021 · 11 min

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    Send us a textA few weeks ago, I made a video on how the world of investing has changed over the last few years. I explained how much easier investing had become in 2021, as there is much less of a need for the type of analysis people used to do in the past. The trick today is to invest in things that seem funny, and hope that Elon Musk then tweets about them. In today's video I lay out my investment plan for 2022.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amz... Lees meer
  17. What Is The Replication Crisis?

    25 november 2021 · 14 min

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    Send us a textIn 2005, Stanford medical professor John Ioannidis published a bombshell essay titled “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”, which noted that the results of many medical research papers could not be replicated by other researchers. Subsequently, several other fields have turned a harsh eye on themselves and come to similar conclusions. The heart of the issue is a phenomenon that researchers call “p-hacking”. Campbell Harvey, a professor of finance at Duke univer... Lees meer
  18. Chinese State Owned Developers Rescue Local Governments!

    18 november 2021 · 13 min

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    Send us a textChinese state-owned developers are rescuing cash-strapped local governments in China by stepping to the fore at land auctions previously dominated by private sector groups like Evergrande.State-owned bidders include highly leveraged local government finance vehicles, which have traditionally focused on infrastructure projects rather than real estate. LGFVs have accounted for about one third of land purchases by value at auctions since September, compared with just over 10 per ce... Lees meer
  19. Elon Musk's $162 Million Dollar Joke

    18 november 2021 · 15 min

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    Send us a textJP Morgan Chase is suing Tesla for $162 million over tweets in 2018 by Technoking Elon Musk that he would take the electric vehicle maker private.JP Morgan accuses Tesla of "flagrantly" breaching a deal it claims should have triggered payments to JP Morgan.JP Morgan's suit, filed in a Manhattan federal court, says that Tesla sold warrants to JP Morgan allowing the bank to purchase shares if the "strike" price was below Tesla's share price when the warrants expired in 2021."We ha... Lees meer
  20. How China’s CEOs Sold Stock At The Right Time

    13 november 2021 · 13 min

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    Send us a textIn China, there is no better sell-signal than when the president, starts attacking an industry.So when Xi said in March that home-schooling was a “stubborn malady” that was putting too much pressure on Chinese children and their parents, the executives of two Chinese tutoring companies dumped their shares in New York according to records found by the FT.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https:/... Lees meer
  21. The Federal Reserve Warns About Evergrande

    11 november 2021 · 16 min

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    Send us a textThe Federal Reserve warned that fragility in China’s commercial real-estate sector could spread to the U.S. if it deteriorates dramatically, as investor focus turns to China Evergrande Group’s biggest payment test yet. The Fed’s stability report, which is meant to highlight risks that could undermine the financial system, said that “stresses in China could strain global financial markets through a deterioration of risk sentiment, pose risks to global economic growth, and affect ... Lees meer
  22. Squashing Tether - The Coming Regulation in Stablecoins

    6 november 2021 · 13 min

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    Send us a textFederal regulators requested more power from Congress to regulate stablecoins, a fast-growing type of cryptocurrency that they warn could result in bank runs and consumer abuse unless lawmakers act quickly, according to a report issued Monday by the Treasury Department.The report, which was undertaken by the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, called on Congress to pass a law that makes issuers of stablecoins subject to requirements like those of traditional banks an... Lees meer
  23. Zillow's Home Flipping Business Made No Sense

    6 november 2021 · 11 min

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    Send us a textZillow, the digital real estate company, said on Tuesday that it’s exiting Offers, its business that buys and flips homes, and eliminating 25% of its workforce.The announcement was attached to Zillow’s third-quarter earnings report. The company’s revenue and earnings missed analysts’ estimates.“We’ve determined the unpredictability in forecasting home prices far exceeds what we anticipated,” Zillow CEO Rich Barton said in the release. “Continuing to scale Zillow Offers would res... Lees meer
  24. Squid Game Crypto Rug Pull

    2 november 2021 · 8 min

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    Send us a textThe anonymous scammers behind a Squid Game cryptocurrency have officially pulled the rug on the project, making off with an estimated $2.1 million. Investors were able to purchase the crypto but couldn’t sell it. The SQUID cryptocurrency peaked at a price of $2,861 before plummeting to $0 around 5:40 a.m. ET., according to the website CoinMarketCap. This kind of theft, commonly called a “rug pull” by crypto investors, happens when the creators of the crypto quickly cash out thei... Lees meer
  25. Ending The Tragedy of The Commons

    30 oktober 2021 · 14 min

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    Send us a texthttps://teamseas.org/ The Tragedy of the Commons is an economic idea made popular by the American ecologist Garrett Hardin, who used the analogy of ranchers grazing their animals on a common field. Individual ranchers will seek to add additional livestock, to increase their profits. The benefit of adding additional animals accrue to the rancher alone, while the costs are shared. The tragedy is that ultimately the field will be destroyed, due to overconsumption. ... Lees meer
  26. Meme Coins & The Elon Markets Hypothesis

    28 oktober 2021 · 7 min

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    Send us a textIn this video we look at meme coins and learn about the Elon Markets Hypothesis. Patrick explains why he is all in on Shibu Inu.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our website: www.onfinance.orgFollow Patrick on Twitter Here: https://twitter.com/PatrickEBoylePat... Lees meer
  27. Do Companies Pay For S&P Index Membership?

    27 oktober 2021 · 15 min

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    Send us a textDo Companies Buy S&P500 Membership? A new working paper attempts to figure out why some companies make it into the blue-chip stock market index.In recent years there has been a huge shift away from active asset management and towards passive, index-tracking funds. The indices that these funds follow have in turn gained enormous power, becoming gatekeepers to the flow of trillions of dollars.Names like S&P Dow Jones, FTSE Russell and MSCI are the biggest index providers a... Lees meer
  28. Everything You Thought You Knew About GameStop Was Wrong!

    21 oktober 2021 · 21 min

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    Send us a textThe SEC published its report on GameStop $GME this Monday, which focuses on the January 2021 trading activity of GameStop Corp (GME), the most famous of the "meme stocks." Because the meme stock episode raised several questions about market structure, the staff report also provides an overview of the equity and options market structure for individual investors.The SEC Report on GameStop: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-212Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trad... Lees meer
  29. Bitcoin on The Big Board - The New Bitcoin ETF

    18 oktober 2021 · 12 min

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    Send us a textThe first bitcoin-linked ETF is scheduled to make its NYSE debut officially on Tuesday morning.The new ETF from ProShares, will track the bitcoin futures market and trade on the NYSE under the ticker “BITO.”According to ProShares a multitude of investors have been eagerly awaiting the launch of a bitcoin-linked ETF after years of efforts to launch one, BITO will open up exposure to bitcoin to a large segment of investors who have a brokerage account and are comfortable buying st... Lees meer
  30. Biggest Trading Mistakes!

    16 oktober 2021 · 12 min

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    Send us a textA small London based crypto asset trading platform called DeversiFi got quite a shock two weeks ago when it mistakenly paid out a $24m fee to a large crypto miner. Transferring crypto deposits generates a fee, known in the industry as a “gas fee”, to compensate miners for the computing energy used to verify transactions on the blockchain. DeversiFi should have paid out around $5, but instead transferred 23.7 million dollars due to an error in their code.A few fat finger errors l... Lees meer
  31. Evergrande Audit Failure!

    13 oktober 2021 · 10 min

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    Send us a textPricewaterhouseCoopers earned over forty million dollars in fees auditing China Evergrande and signed off on the accounts presented to them by management for all of those years. PWC is likely to face criticism over the level of push back they gave to management over accounting policies that could have shown warning signs about the company’s financial health many years before the collapse.Around the world, auditors have faced criticism when companies have collapsed, and aud... Lees meer
  32. Could Evergrande Impact Global Property Prices?

    12 oktober 2021 · 12 min

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    Send us a textChina’s crackdown on property developers threatens the London property market.Evergrande, the world’s most indebted developer, sparked fears across global markets as it missed a crucial interest deadline on its offshore debts. This week, another developer, Fantasia, defaulted on an offshore bond. A property consultant close to London’s development market was contacted in the wake of the Evergrande crisis by a UK regulator with concerns about the risks of contagion in London. “Th... Lees meer
  33. The Pandora Papers - Everything You Need To Know!

    9 oktober 2021 · 23 min

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    Send us a textRevelations from nearly 12 million leaked confidential financial records have thrown light on the concealed wealth of powerful public figures around the world. How do they hide their money, and why is this information important? The Pandora Papers were released this week showing that Jordan’s King - Abdullah II amassed $100 million in property including homes in The United States and London. An alleged mistress of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s leader managed to covertly buy a lu... Lees meer
  34. Another Evergrande? Fantasia Holdings Defaults!

    9 oktober 2021 · 10 min

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    Send us a textOn the heels of Evergrande’s debt crisis, there are increasing signs of stress in China’s real estate market after Fantasia Holdings failed to make a bond payment.Fantasia Holdings, a Chinese developer of luxury apartments missed $315 million in payments to lenders on Monday, sparking fears that financial strains in the country's outsized property sector are spreading beyond the troubled Evergrande conglomerate.Fantasia Holdings, a Shenzhen-based developer, missed repaying $206 ... Lees meer
  35. Are Rising Energy Prices The First Sign Of Greenflation?

    5 oktober 2021 · 15 min

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    Send us a textOver the last month the news has been dominated by stories of energy shortages around the world. China has seen major industrial output cuts caused by power outages over the last year, European gas prices are trading near record highs and the UK is reeling from the political fallout of a surge in energy prices. US oil prices rose to the highest level in seven years after OPEC and its allies declined to accelerate plans to increase crude production, snubbing calls from the White ... Lees meer
  36. What Does China's Crypto Ban Mean? Will Other Countries Follow Suit?

    30 september 2021 · 17 min

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    Send us a textIn the latest of a series of crypto crackdowns, Chinas central bank announced on Friday that overseas facilities offering cryptocurrency services inside China are “illegal”. It warned that any local staff who help these businesses operate, or even provide marketing and technical support, “shall be investigated”. This is the most direct crackdowns by a major regulator against “offshore” exchanges that have proliferated as interest among traders has boomed in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Do... Lees meer
  37. Evergrande & The Chinese Economy

    23 september 2021 · 16 min

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    Send us a textThe financial woes of Evergrande the once-mighty Chinese property developer highlight a showdown between two competing objectives for China's Communist Party. They aim to force China's private sector away from speculative and risky lending practices while avoiding a financial meltdown and the collapse of the property sector, in which more than 70% of the nation's urban wealth is locked up.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives ... Lees meer
  38. Evergrande Wealth Management Products - A Ponzi Scheme?

    22 september 2021 · 10 min

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    Send us a textIn an interview with local media, an Evergrande financial adviser said the products were a type of “supply chain finance”. While the money from retail investors may in years past have gone to its suppliers, the Evergrande executives in Shenzhen receiving retail investors said this was no longer the case.One of the executives of Evergrande’s wealth management division said Hubei Gangdun was just a shell company. “Proceeds from the Wealth Management Products have been used to brid... Lees meer
  39. Evergrande Crisis Intensifies

    21 september 2021 · 9 min

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    Send us a textThe liquidity crisis at Chinese property developer Evergrande shook global markets this morning with stocks falling in Asia, Europe and New York.The S&P 500 fell 2.1 per cent in afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 2.6 per cent. The Vix, which measures expected volatility on the S&P, hit 26.5 — around its highest level since May.Monday’s sell-off came after shares in Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer, closed 10 per cent lower in Ho... Lees meer
  40. Evergrande - China Faces a Potential Lehman Moment

    18 september 2021 · 9 min

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    Send us a textThe implosion of Lehman Brothers, 13 years ago this week, showed the world how the collapse of a single company can send shockwaves around the world. Echoes from that event are resounding today as a massive Chinese property developer teeters on the brink of default.The collapse of Evergrande Real Estate Group - China's second-largest property developer with $310 billion of debt outstanding, could set off a chain reaction that spreads overseas.Wall Street is keeping a... Lees meer
  41. Investing In Collectibles - Are NFT's Digital Beanie Babies?

    16 september 2021 · 16 min

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    Send us a textThe Beanie Babies Bubble is a particularly entertaining story which highlights all the hallmarks of a mania. Mass delusion. Speculation. Out of control expectations. The herd mentality.Right now, it might appear that we are in another collectibles boom, in February this year, a Michael Jordan basketball card sold for $738,000 at auction. The exact same card had traded for more than half a million dollars less just a few weeks earlier. A Klon Centaur guitar effects pedal is being... Lees meer
  42. The Difference Between Trading And Investing

    9 september 2021 · 13 min

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    Send us a textIn today's podcast Patrick discusses the famous Warren Buffett quote “calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor “is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.” from his 1991 letter to investors.Topics covered are: what is the difference between trading and investing? Is one better than the other, and does it make sense to discourage short term trading? Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.... Lees meer
  43. Billionaires Who Lost Everything

    2 september 2021 · 23 min

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    Send us a textAccording to Forbes Magazine there are 2,755 billionaires in the world today. The top five industries where they made their money are Finance, Technology, Manufacturing, Retail and Healthcare. It is rare to become a billionaire, but even more unusual to reach that level and then lose everything, but it is not unheard of. Today we’ll look at ten one-time billionaires who later went bankrupt, and one whose net worth fell from eight billion dollars to two million dollar... Lees meer
  44. Do Central Bankers Care About Rising House Prices?

    26 augustus 2021 · 17 min

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    Send us a textWhy don’t central bankers care about rising asset prices?For most people their greatest expense is housing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend almost 40% of their take home pay on shelter, this might lead you to ask - why aren’t home prices included in measures of inflation? And should they be? Is real inflation much higher than is being reported in the CPI because of asset price inflation? Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: h... Lees meer
  45. Should Politicians Trade Stocks? Congressional Insider Trading

    17 augustus 2021 · 8 min

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    Send us a textInsider trading, or the act of buying or selling investments based on nonpublic information, is against the law in the United States and in most countries. At its core, insider trading benefits well connected investors at the expense of the general public and it has been illegal in the US since 1934 – at least for corporate insiders. I made a video a few months ago on the biggest insider trading scandals, and a lot you asked in the comments section “what about politicians”... Lees meer
  46. Sinner or Saint - ESG Investing vs. Vice Investing

    10 augustus 2021 · 11 min

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    Send us a textESG (or environmental, social and governance) investing is one of the hottest things in markets right now, with large fund managers competing to be seen to take ESG more seriously than the next. Setting aside any moral judgements, the commercial rationale for the investment management industry is pretty clear: ESG funds have attracted about $350bn over the last two years, almost twice as much as the rest of the stock fund universe combined.The opposite of ESG investing is ... Lees meer
  47. Insider Trading on The Dark Web

    3 augustus 2021 · 8 min

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    Send us a textApostolos Trovias was recently arrested in Peru and charged by the SEC with perpetrating a fraudulent scheme to sell what he called "insider trading tips" on the Dark Web. According to the complaint, Trovias, using the online avatar "TheBull" engaged in a deceptive scheme to sell "insider trading tips" on Dark Web marketplaces like Alpha Bay. The Bull claimed that the information he was selling consisted of order-book data from a securities trading firm that was provided to him ... Lees meer
  48. Consumer Protections in Crypto Investing

    27 juli 2021 · 10 min

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    Send us a textLast week Janet Yellen called for rapid action to ensure there is an appropriate US regulatory framework in place for crypto-assets. A month ago the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said that banks’ exposures to crypto should carry the toughest capital requirements. Todays video looks at what consumer protections are in place for crypto investors today. What regulations protect you? What happens if you are hacked, or if a crypto exchange goes bust? What will the SEC do abo... Lees meer
  49. When Pubs Briefly Replaced Banks in Ireland

    21 juli 2021 · 22 min

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    Send us a textToday we are going to discuss the Irish Banking Strike of 1970 when all of the countries clearing banks closed for over six months, only to find themselves quickly replaced by local pubs. We will discuss if something like this could work again, and at the end of the video we will compare how the system that emerged compares to more modern ideas like cryptocurrencies.Between 1966 and 1976, there were three major banking strikes in Ireland in which all of the clearing banks were c... Lees meer
  50. The First SPAC on The Moon!

    15 juli 2021 · 10 min

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    Send us a textSEC Charges Stable Road SPAC and Space Startup Momentus with Misleading Claims.The SEC announced on Tuesday that it charged blank-check company Stable Road Acquisition Corp (SRAC.O), its sponsor SRC-NI, space exploration company Momentus Inc and two executives for misleading claims over their planned merger.The SEC said the companies and Stable Road Acquisition Company Chief Executive Brian Kabot agreed to pay $8 million to resolve allegations they misled investors about Momentu... Lees meer