Season 1

This week, and in coming weeks, the Bubble Trouble team will turn our attention to the phase dejour, the bait of all click baits,…

We're back with more of our conversation with Brooke Masters, the Chief Business Commentator and Associate Editor of the Financia…

This week we salvage what's left of the crypto bubble and delve into the recent dollar devaluations of stable coins with our gue…

Today we will not be powdering your nose, but be sprinkling our conversation with a little dry powder. That's cash or marketable …

This week we're going to be jumping the shark. That is we're going to be looking at why tech companies and their success, their g…

Today, we're treading deep in some chicken sh*t with Propublica investigative journalist Jesse Eisenger.

Recently, in the most European city of Brussels, there was mingling with the finest folks in competition law and economics. They …

Today, we target those analysts notes that tell us what they think the price should be and how much faith we should put in that m…

Today we wrestle with ethics and technology. Stephanie Hare's wonderful new book. Technology Is Not Neutral, gives us a much need…

This week, we'll get Will Page’s impressions of the bubbles gathering around that island and what tsunami warning horns ought to …

This week we explore the current craze in the mergers and acquisitions going on just now. And asking, do they actually create add…

We've made quantitative easing easy-ish to understand, now we need to infiltrate the institutions that do that easing: the centra…

A lot of financial journalism about companies and markets lives and dies based on access. But what are other ways of finding out …

Today we bring on the sexy topics of fractional reserve lending and quantitative easing with Michael McMahon from the Bank of Eng…

This week we look into rating agencies and ask: Why were they invented? What is their purpose? Who pays their wages?

With all the emphasis on hard metrics and financials, it's often easy to overlook the culture of companies and the role it plays …

SPACs Are This Year's Vanilla: Our Conversastion with the FT's Brooke Masters Part Two

Today we have our first of two episodes featuring Brooke Masters, the Chief Business Commentator and Associate Editor of the Fina…

Today we look back Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Was this a unique case of "faking it until you make it" or this what everyone i…

Today we're going to take a break from blowing bubbles and instead go smoking…and look at the smoke signals we should, and import…

We're back to blowing bubbles in the housing market with Daryl Fairweather, an acclaimed economist from Redfin, where we ask if t…

We add a new acronym to our alphabet soup: FOFO--Fear of Finding Out, as we discuss hyper-competition in China with economist Geo…

For the last two episodes of the year, we’re looking back at favorite episodes for both Richard and Will. This week, Will’s favor…

For the last two episodes of the year, we’re looking back at favorite episodes for both Richard and Will. This week, Richard’s fa…

We're back to blowing bubbles, the original source of this inspirational podcast, and we deep dive into the force that's driving …

This time we look at the themes and dreams that markets put out there to attract the investor's dollar. If it's too good to be tr…

On this episode, we discuss hyper-competition in the hedge fund world with Seth Wunder.

In this episode, we're in conversation with our fifth special guest, Joe Kessler of UTA IQ, discussing hyper-competition for that…

On this episode we discuss continue our series on hyper-competition, this time in the business of the written and spoken word.

On this episode, we're in conversation with our third special guest, the source of truth and the mad men and women of advertising…

This time, we're going to talk about how market trends are all too often too smooth to be true. What might that mean? Well, life …

This week, sucking on subsidies. Government grants, fat contracts, tax credits, state aid, all the cash a company didn't generate…

This episode we're back into hyper-competition, speaking with Podnews editor James Cridland. We have some real-time thinking, som…

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 …

This week we kick off a series on episodes on hyper-competition (the point where quantity goes up and quality goes down) with the…

This week we unpack the SAC. That's Subscriber Acquisition Costs--getting to the heart of the issue and the core of why we find o…

In this episode we go deep on Robinhood and the gamification of retail investing. Is it a passing fad that rescued us from boredo…

This week, to bundle or not to bundle. If we are all now content creators, how are we all supposed to get paid?

We talk about financial analysts and why it's sometimes more accurate to call them sycophants and stenographers, and how these an…

This week we're going to be jumping the shark. That is we're going to be looking at why tech companies and their success, their g…

This week we explore the current craze in the mergers and acquisitions going on just now. And asking, do they actually create add…

The UK parliament has dug deep into the economics of music streaming, licensing, and what artists get paid. We'll look at what th…

This week we look at the tremendous explosion in cultural production--content creation and hyper competition.

This week: talking your own book. Those analysts outside the company and those executives inside the company, who are long and lo…

This week we explore the charade of the earnings call--that quarterly bit of theater that often helps stoke bubbles and creates t…

This week we look into rating agencies and ask: Why were they invented? What is their purpose? Who pays their wages?

This week we're going to go to SPACs and back, and that's an acronym. It's an acronym that sounds strange, sounds unfamiliar, so…

This time we discuss the most important subject of them all: money. More importantly, someone else's money. We'll get to the basi…

This week we look at the vague way in which various groups have measured the concept of time spent or tried to parcel out the att…

This time we look at the themes and dreams that markets put out there to attract the investor's dollar. If it's too good to be tr…