Michael Hudson On Why The US Risks Becoming The Next Greece
In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, you heard a lot of talk about the US becoming like Greece unless the budget deficit were brought under control. However, these warnings proved to be unfounde...
12 Okt 202053min
What It Takes To Win At Quant Investing
Interest in quantitative investing strategies continues to grow; however, as the space gets more competitive, making money and winning gets harder and harder. Computation costs alone can be prohibitiv...
8 Okt 202046min
An IMF Economist On The Challenge Of Finding The Neutral Rate Of Interest
One of the guiding lights of Fed policy over the years has been the so-called Neutral Rate of Interest or R*. It's at this rate, theoretically, where the economy comes into balance, with full employme...
5 Okt 202049min
Volatility Suppression Turned The Entire Economy Into One Big Carry Trade
In a carry trade, an investor borrows money cheaply to buy an asset that yields more. As long as nothing changes overall, the investors get to pocket the spread. In our latest episode, our guests argu...
1 Okt 202042min
How All Financial Markets Turned Into The Same Big Trade
These days it seems like all financial markets are the same big trade. A gold chart looks like a Tesla chart, which looks like an Ethereum chart, which looks like a chart of a basket of cloud computin...
28 Sep 202041min
This Is What Happened When They Tried To Fix Journalism Using Blockchain
Back in 2017, during the Bitcoin boom, there were a number of different attempts to use blockchain technology to improve a host of businesses and industries. Many of those were cynical attempts to cas...
24 Sep 202038min
A Top Crypto Exchange CEO Explains Why The 2020 Boom Is Different
Crypto is hot this year again. In 2020, we've not only seen a substantial rally across a lot of different coins, there's been an emergency of new experiments, categories, and protocols. Is it more sus...
21 Sep 202049min
How Traders Used Google Searches To See The Economic Recovery In Real Time
The use of so-called "alternative data" has been gathering attention for some time. Investors have been looking at things like credit cards or satellite photos of Walmart parking lots for insights int...
17 Sep 202037min
