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Oct. 23, 2023

Private Equity Plays Pass the Parcel

This week we turn our attention back to private markets where Richard’s prior smoke signals may be bearing fruit. That is, we’re getting reports that private equity is playing pass the parcel: selling assets to themselves tha...

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Oct. 16, 2023

Talking Audiobooks

We know why you, our audience, listen to podcasts... to impress friends at dinner parties. Now waht about extending a 35 minute pod to a 15 hour audiobook? And that’s where we’re turning our attention to today, audiobooks hav...

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Oct. 9, 2023

What’s Going to Burst First?

This week, its just Will quizzing Richard with an ocean separating their microphones, as Will squeezes that thirty year veteran of the markets like a sponge to get us all up to speed on whether those bubbles are building ever...

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Oct. 2, 2023

After the Goldrush

Bubble Trouble has spent 90+ episodes in the studios exposing sycophants and stenographers. More recently, we went from the studio to the stage, with both of us top billing the Financial Times Weekend Festival at Kenwood Hous...

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Sept. 25, 2023

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? In forty five days, the European Commission drummed up an answer, while …

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Sept. 18, 2023

The Complicated Dance Around ARM with James Ashton

This week James Ashton joins us to talk about the complicated dance around the re-listing of ARM in the first tech IPO in some time. Few IPOs come this big, and few have had to revise down their target market …

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Sept. 11, 2023

AI and Digital Doppelgangers with Jessica Powell

You may have heard about the recent collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd that wasn't a real collaboration, but an AI-generated fake. This incident is a canary in the coalmine not just for the music industry, but any cre...

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Sept. 4, 2023

Dan McCrum (FT, Wirecard) Part 2

This week, the second of two episodes with Dan McCrum of the Financial Times about his investigative reporting into the massive fraud at the German financial firm Wirecard. (Repeat from October, 2022.) Hosted on Acast. See a...

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Aug. 28, 2023

Dan McCrum (FT, Wirecard) Part 1

This week we have the first of two episodes with Dan McCrum of the Financial Times about his investigative reporting into the massive fraud at the German financial firm Wirecard. (Repeat from September, 2022.) Hosted on Acast...

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Aug. 21, 2023

Designing for AI with Professor Chris Speed

We continue our exploration into the dinner party topic of converation on everyone’s lips: AI with the first of many very special guests on the topic, Professor Chris Speed. This week, we take a design lens to the problems (a...

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Aug. 14, 2023

Pivot, The Afterword

We don't do shameless plugs here on Bubble Trouble, but we're making an exception for our esteem co-host Will Page on the publication of the paperback edition of Tarzan Economics, renamed Pivot: Eight Principles for Transform...

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Aug. 7, 2023

UGC (User Generated Content) in Music with Mayk.it's Stefán Heinrich …

We’ve talked to some of the biggest names in AI, - Audioshake, Stability and Boomy but this week, we’re going to Mayk.it with Stefán Heinrich Henriquez - and his new start up Mayk.it. His plans appear to be making all …

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July 31, 2023

Browser Wars: Brave vs. Goliath

When looking at today's issues of privacy, social media, and AI, we can draw a lot from the battles of the browsers over the past 30 years. To explore this, we welcome a close friend onto the show, the father …

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July 24, 2023

Taking Eight Million Creators to Eight Billion People

We’ve talked to some of the biggest names in AI, but today, we want to get behind the controversy over Boomy, with co-founder Alex Mitchell. To date, Boomy “artists” have created 16 million “original” AI-generated songs. That...

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July 17, 2023

Behind the Balance Sheet with Stephen Clapham

Behind the Balance Sheet with Stephen Clapham

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July 10, 2023

Water Works with Feargal Sharkey

Water Works with Feargal Sharkey

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July 3, 2023

Has Innovation Moved The House? with guest Dror Poleg

One of the giant bubbles of the last decades has clearly been, in many regions of the world, real estate. For this week's episode, we're looking forward, not backward with Dror Poleg, an economic historian and inspirational t...

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June 26, 2023

Hugh You Looking At

Our guest this week is Hugh Hendry, a man who found fortunes walking the tightropes as booms turned to busts. Founder and CIO of Eclectica Asset Management, London, a Global Macro Hedge Fund, from 2002 to 2017, where its “hig...

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June 19, 2023

Judging the Old Bailey

This week we want give a hat tip to the Financial Times, reporting on how the "Bank of England to review use of economic forecasts." As so often happens with the FT, the comments were even better than the article, …

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June 12, 2023

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

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June 5, 2023

Podcast Bubbles Popping

Podcast Bubbles Popping

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May 29, 2023

SVB: Damned by Duration

SVB: Damned by Duration

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May 22, 2023

Generative AI - A Solution That's Finding Its Way Into Every Possible…

We’ve been training our respective brains on the dinner table topic de jour, artificial intelligence, for three episodes now and we’ve generated views about banking analyst notes, academia, mixtape culture. This week, we land one of the most important voices …

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May 15, 2023

Theatrics of the Market

This week, we want to lay out the current theatrics of the market - blink and you’ll have missed banks avoiding collapse and earnings beats and misses. So with eyes wide open, take your seats in the stalls so we …

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