The Baseball Card Bubble Can Tell You A Surprising Amount About How Markets Work
There's a good chance that if you were a boy in the early 90s that you were a collector of baseball cards. For a few years, the baseball card industry went from being a niche collectible to a massive ...
18 Syys 201735min
How an Austrian Economist Explains The Tulip Bubble
The tulip bubble is the quintessential bubble. If you want to call something a bubble, just mutter something about tulips, and everybody will know what you're arguing. But what was the tulip bubble, r...
11 Syys 201731min
This Is What Happened During The Great Florida Real Estate Bubble
During the 2008 financial crisis, Florida was an epicenter of the real estate meltdown. But for decades before that, the state has been characterized by booms and busts. In this week's episode of the ...
4 Syys 201727min
This Is What All Great Stock Market Bubbles And Crashes Have in Common
Markets are at their most exciting when they're in a bubble. Spectacular fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of an eye. So how do bubbles form and end? On this week's episode of the Odd Lots po...
28 Elo 201728min
What Looking Inside a Bank Archive Can Tell Us About Modern Finance
Royal Bank of Scotland has been around, in one form or another, for hundreds of years. The company keeps artifacts from its lengthy history in an archive that features everything from a customer ledge...
21 Elo 201724min
The Biggest Lesson Investors Should Have Learned From the Crisis
It's been 10 years since the start of the credit crunch that eventually led to the global financial crisis. For many investors, the events of 2007 to 2008 shook their entire understanding of how marke...
14 Elo 201737min
What Diner's Club Card Reveals About the Nature Of Money
We use money everyday, but it's rare to actually think about what money is or what it represents. And in fact many of the people who are the closest to it -- academics, traders, etc. -- understand it ...
7 Elo 201731min
How The Bond Market Changed During A Veteran Trader's Decades On Wall Street
Most people have some kind of hazy conception of how the stock market works. Stocks are simple to understand, and there are only so many of them out there to trade. But the bond market is a whole diff...
31 Heinä 201723min
