Bubble Trouble: Laying Out Inconvenient Truths About How Business and Financial Markets Really Work

This week: talking your own book. Those analysts outside the company and those executives inside the company, who are long and loud about their views of their own stock. Why so long? Why so loud? Why should we listen to them? And if we do listen to them, are we putting ourselves at risk? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we explore the charade of the earnings call--that quarterly bit of theater that often helps stoke bubbles and creates trouble. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we look into rating agencies and ask: Why were they invented? What is their purpose? Who pays their wages? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, sounds technical. We'll explain what they are and why they getting so much attention. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time we discuss the most important subject of them all: money. More importantly, someone else's money. We'll get to the basics. Where does money even come from? Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page and financial analyst Richard Kramer. It is produced by Magnificent Noise, http://magnificentnoise.com . More information is available at bubbletroublepodcast.com. Hosted on A...

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 attention economy. How do you really measure attention, and even better, how do you measure the quality of attention or time spent in this attention economy? Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page and financial analyst Richard Kramer. It is produced by M...

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 true, are we in dreamland? Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page and financial analyst Richard Kramer. It is produced by Magnificent Noise, http://magnificentnoise.com . More information is available at bubbletroublepodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

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 isn't as predictable as it might first appear, meaning those unpredictable events may have been planned all along. "Great expectations", as Dickens once wrote, "need to be met with better than expected results." Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page...

We talk about financial analysts and why it's sometimes more accurate to call them sycophants and stenographers, and how these analysts become cheerleaders of the companies they're supposed to cover. They praise as opposed to appraise. Bubble Trouble is hosted by economist and author Will Page and financial analyst Richard Kramer. It is produced by Magnificent Noise, http://magnificentnoise.com ....

Trailer for Bubble Trouble, coming soon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.