Patrick Boyle On Finance

Send us a textBloomberg journalist Zeke Faux travelled around the world to better understand the world of crypto currencies, meeting the biggest names in the space on superyachts in the Caribbean and at parties in Miami and travelling to El Salvador to see how bitcoin is being used in the real world. Along the way he buys a Bored Ape with his book advance and sends Tether to a scammer in Cambodia...

Send us a textThe US-China trade war is rewiring global trade. While the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China and other geopolitical rivals and start sourcing imports from closer to home, Mexico is starting to shine. Mexico has just overtaken China as the biggest supplier of goods to the United States. Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The...

Send us a textGet one month of complete digital access to the Financial Times for $1 by clicking here: https://subs.ft.com/patrick_boyle?segmentId=979ca37f-c690-7295-5eba-bf4ff33d3bb4Goldman Sachs is reported in the FT to have used a fund set up with Chinese state money to buy a series of US and UK companies, including one with a cyber security business that provides services to the British govern...

Send us a textClick my CoPilot https://go.mycopilot.com/PatrickBoyle link to get a 14-day FREE trial with your own personal trainer! China’s economy has been struggling to reawaken from an economic shutdown that was officially ended last year. Chinese authorities are now reported to be pressuring economists and analysts within the country to avoid discussing any negative trends and to avoid using...

Send us a textThe Panic of 1907 was a six-week stretch of bank runs in October and early November of 1907, where the stock market crashed, the city ran out of money and numerous banks and brokerage firms went bankrupt. The event was triggered by an earthquake a year earlier in San Francisco and a failed short squeeze in United Copper stock by Fritz Augustus Heinze and Charles W Morse. J. Pierpont...

Send us a textThe demand for electricity has been soaring around the world, and this increase in demand is expected to continue. Governments have been creating rules to electrify transportation, heating, household appliances and even industrial processes. In today's podcast we look at the electric grids that we have in place and copper production to discuss if our power grids can handle the green...

Send us a textIn today's podcast I look at the affordability of real estate in the United States and around the world. I try to help my friend who runs a popular YouTube channel "How Money Works" find a good place to live. If you can live wherever you want to, where should you live? Here is a link to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks/videosPatrick's Books:Statistics For T...

Send us a textThe performance of the US stock market is the most concentrated it has ever been. Seven of the biggest stocks — Apple, Microsoft, Google owner Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta — have rallied sharply this year gaining between 35 per cent and 210 per cent this year. The remaining 496 stocks have barely moved. Five big tech companies make up nearly a quarter of the S&P500. A...

Send us a textIn Europe’s battle against inflation, new villains have emerged: Beyoncé and Taylor Swift! Last month, as Beyoncé kicked off her world tour, fans flocked to Sweden from around the world for the shows, pushing up prices for hotel rooms. This could explain some of the reason Sweden’s inflation rate was higher than expected in May according to Michael Grahn, an economist at Danske Bank....

Send us a textIn March 2023 Bernard Arnault, the chairman and CEO of luxury fashion giant LVMH overtook Elon Musk to become the wealthiest person in the world. He is the only European in the list of top 10 richest people in the world. His wealth has skyrocketed with the massive growth in LVMH’s share price. And it's not hard to see why they’re so profitable. It’s easy to make money when you can se...

Send us a textWhen the Biden administration passed the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips and Science Act for clean energy and tech last year, Americas trade allies in Europe and Asia were surprised. Now they are scrambling for ways to catch up. Are western economies in a war of subsidies with each other and China over technology and green infrastructure? Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trad...

Send us a textOver the last three years we have seen the biggest car price increases in history. Last year the average cost of a new car in the United States was forty-seven thousand dollars and the average used car price today is just under thirty thousand dollars. Car buyers today aren’t just faced with higher car prices, the average interest rate on a new car or truck loan has reached just unde...

Send us a textIn The UK, September 16, 1992, is known as Black Wednesday, the day when speculators including George Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller "broke the pound." This expression is used to describe the moment in time where market forces coalesced to force the British government to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) by removing its currency from that agreement. Joining the ERM was...

Send us a textRising mortgage payments are squeezing the finances of millions of borrowers in Britain, threatening to undermine household spending and the broader economy. The dream of a soft landing that would have the Bank of England squeeze out inflation without condemning the country to a recession looks increasingly remote. Inflation has been more stubborn than expected and is forcing the cen...

Send us a textAside from losing over 1.13 million people, the United States is thought to have lost billions of dollars in pandemic relief fund fraud, according to the most recent Associated Press analysis, published this week. The analysis discovered that fraudsters took more than US$280 billion in relief cash, while another $123 billion was lost or misspent.“Combined, the loss represents 10 perc...

Send us a textThis week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), filed lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase, two of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, on which investors buy and trade a large offering of cryptocurrencies. The SEC’s main allegation against Coinbase is that it’s running an unregistered securities exchange — like if the Nasdaq independently operated without any regulator...

Send us a textWe’ve all heard the story of how a lottery win, which at first may appear to be a great blessing slowly reveals itself to be a curse. In today's video we look at what happens to people after they win the lottery. 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...

Send us a textTurkish voters return to the polls this weekend to choose a president. Before the first round of the election, polls suggested that voters were evenly divided between the two biggest parties. However, Erdogan’s unexpectedly strong first round has put pressure on the Turkish lira and knocked other Turkish assets ahead of this weekend’s runoff vote. The official annual inflation rate i...

Send us a textThe next big potential risk to the U.S. economy may be lurking in office buildings across the country's downtown districts. With so many people still working from home, companies are cutting back on office space which threatens to unleash even more headwinds for the U.S. economy. What is going wrong in the commercial real estate market, and how might we be affected? Patrick's Books:S...

Send us a textThe three-decade era of globalization risks going into reverse according to company executives and investors. In this video we look at the economic evidence in a paper called Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? by Pinelopi Goldberg of Yale University and Tristan Reed of The World Bank. Here is a link to the full paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31115Patrick's Books:Statistics For...

Send us a textLegendary corporate raider and activist Carl Icahn found himself on the wrong side of a familiar battle this week when the short selling investment firm Hindenburg Research took aim at Icahn’s publicly traded holding company, alleging in a new report that Icahn Enterprises L.P. (IEP) is overstating the value of its private asset portfolio, and that its publicly traded stock units–85%...

Send us a textThe FDIC took possession of First Republic Bank on Monday, resulting in the third failure of an American bank since March. JPMorgan Chase, already the largest U.S. bank by several measures, emerged as the buyer in a weekend auction for First Republic. It will get all of the ailing bank’s deposits and a “substantial majority of assets.”Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor:...

Send us a textThe BRICS nations have been discussing the idea of creating a new currency to facilitate overseas trade. The idea was put forth by Russia as it faces economic sanctions from the West over its invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, some of the BRICS countries have already ditched dollar and are now trading in their local currencies. Brazil and China signed an agreement last month to abandon...

Send us a textApple recently announced its latest financial product in partnership with Goldman Sachs — a savings account designed for Apple Card users. The high-yield savings account comes with a 4.15% interest rate and comes with no fees and no minimum deposit or minimum balance requirements. Plus, it has some extra benefits for users like automatic deposits of Daily Cash earned with the Apple C...

Send us a textThe term “Finfluencer” refers to a person who by virtue of their popular or cultural status has an outsize impact on investor decisions through social media influence. According to Sue Guan of Santa Clara University, a variety of finfluencers exist in today’s markets, ranging from simple celebrities that draw people's attention like Kim Kardashian to corporate personalities like Elon...