How A Profane Subreddit Moved The Market
In recent weeks, before the stock market plunged, a page on reddit called r/WallStreetBets suddenly started exhibiting enormous influence on a handful of stocks. The emergence of online chat rooms mak...
5 Maalis 202058min
How Iraq Pulled Off One Of The Biggest Sovereign Debt Restructurings Of All Time
There are lots of famous debt crises in history, but the story of Iraq's government debt build-up in the 1980s and subsequent restructuring in the early 2000s is probably one of the most unusual. Iraq...
2 Maalis 202053min
This Is What The Coronavirus Means For The Chinese Supply Chain
Apple's recent revenue warning reminded the world of how exposed the company is to China, and in particular its factories. As the coronavirus continues to shutter huge swaths of the Chinese economy, t...
26 Helmi 202037min
The Jeweler From Uncut Gems Explains Why People Go Crazy For Gold And Diamonds
One of the best recent movies was Uncut Gems, in which Adam Sandler plays a Diamond District jeweler with an addiction to gambling and risk. It turns out, one of the workers in Sandler's shop was play...
24 Helmi 202043min
What the Coronavirus Means for Pandemic Bonds
Back in 2017, the World Bank issued the world's first pandemic bonds. The bonds are meant to shift some of the financial risk of a global pandemic on to investors, but they've been criticized for havi...
17 Helmi 202028min
Why The Rise of Passive Investing Might Be Distorting The Market
Over the last decade or so, we've seen an incredible rise in so-called passive investing. While definitions differ over what this means, we've seen more and more money poured into index funds (which o...
10 Helmi 202045min
How To Use Fiscal Stimulus To Stave Off The Next Recession
There's a growing consensus that governments need to act more aggressively in using fiscal policy to stave off the next recession, and that monetary policy simply isn't powerful enough. But how do you...
3 Helmi 202059min
Perry Mehrling Explains Why "The Money View" Is Key To Understanding Financial Markets
Even to this day, there are economists who don't understand money or don't think that money is an important aspect of the economy. They see the world as still operating essentially under a barter syst...
27 Tammi 202049min
