Episodes
Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow Part One
Today we welcome the author of Chokepoint Capitalism Cory Doctorow over two episodes. In this first installment, we focus on mark…
NFTs - They're Not For Me
This episode, we'll get Will Page’s impressions of the bubbles gathering around that island and what tsunami warning horns ought …
The Bubbles are Already Bursting with Sir Martin Sorrell
This week we continue our exploration of the bait of all click baits, the bandwagon that's traveling across the internet, that is…
Music’s Worth $40bn
This week Will’s out of his bat cave and produced his annual global value of music copyright which - when rounded up - would hit …
Right of Reply: The Future of the Free Press
This week we give the right of reply to an earlier episode (BT 49: Newspaper Subscriptions Versus Music Subscriptions) that raise…
Can't Truss It
There are bubbles in politics just like there are in markets, and we're going to talk today about how the markets look at bubbles…
When the Levee Breaks
This week we want to take stock of the central banks and the hiking interest rates. Those rates are still way behind the rate of …
The Downfall of Wirecard with Dan McCrum (Part Two)
This week, the second of two episodes with Dan McCrum of the Financial Times about his investigative reporting into the massive f…
The Downfall of Wirecard with Dan McCrum
This week we have the first of two episodes with Dan McCrum of the Financial Times about his investigative reporting into the mas…
Summer Troubles, Autumn Bubbles
As we're all back from our holidays this week is just Will and Richard trading postcards, anecdotes, and observations of what the…
How Good is Goodwill?
This week we get to the good, the bad and the ugly of "goodwill," how it's supposed to be used and how it can often be abused in …
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 basi…
Stenographers and Sycophants
We talk about financial analysts and why it's sometimes more accurate to call them sycophants and stenographers, and how these an…
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 …
Achieving Presence: More Meta-Troubles with Seth Gerson
On this episode, we’re going to keep this deep dive on the metaverse going with another doer, not a thinker--a three-stripe veter…
Newspaper Subscriptions Versus Music Subscriptions
This week we talk about subscriptions, specifically how the subscription business model in newspapers struggles, while half a bil…
Metaverse Perceptions versus Reality
This week we're gonna blow the halftime whistle on our travels into the metaverse on Bubble Trouble. Today Will quizes Richard: I…
Metaverse...Curb Your Enthusiasm with Eric Kress
This week we continue to deconstruct the metaverse with our brilliant Eric Kress of Gossamer Consulting Group, an independent res…
The Metaverse and Virtual Experiences with AmazeVR's Ernest Lee
We’re going to keep this deep dive on teh Metaverse going with a doer, not a thinker - someone with skin in the game, bacon not e…
Hyper-competition in Advertising with Mike Follett
On this episode, we're in conversation with our third special guest, the source of truth and the mad men and women of advertising…
Meta-Troubles with guest Yoshio Osaki
This week, and in coming weeks, the Bubble Trouble team will turn our attention to the phase dejour, the bait of all click baits,…
This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversation with the FT's Brooke Masters Pa…
We're back with more of our conversation with Brooke Masters, the Chief Business Commentator and Associate Editor of the Financia…
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 gue…
The World is Full of Pyramids: Our Conversation with the FT's Brooke …
Today we have our first of two episodes featuring Brooke Masters, the Chief Business Commentator and Associate Editor of the Fina…