Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Patrick Boyle On Finance
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| The Great British Bailout | 03 Sep 2024 | 00:27:30 | |
The British government is closing in on a bailout of the Chinese owned British Steel in which taxpayers would inject £600 million pounds into the group. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| When AI is Just Badly Paid Humans! | 25 Aug 2024 | 00:23:25 | |
In recent years, a number of companies have been caught claiming to use artificial intelligence while in reality, outsourcing this work to humans. The SEC recently settled with two funds who were misleading investors about their use of the technology. While artificial intelligence has been widely used in industry for decades, not all companies have been truthful with their claims of AI breakthroughs. | |||
| The Pig Butchering Scam! | 29 Jun 2024 | 00:27:57 | |
Every year, people around the world lose millions of dollars to a sophisticated scam known as “the pig butchering romance scam”. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| FTX: Worse Than Enron! | 19 Nov 2022 | 00:16:54 | |
The new chief executive of FTX, an insolvency professional who oversaw the liquidation of Enron, has said that the bankruptcy of the crypto group is the worst case of corporate failure he has seen in more than 40 years. | |||
| FTX Bankruptcy Explained! | 12 Nov 2022 | 00:26:04 | |
FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange recently valued at $32 billion dollars, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| The Myth of The Robber Barons. | 08 Nov 2022 | 00:36:33 | |
The term robber baron is frequently used to describe men like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, along with other powerful 19th-century American industrialists. These men came from nowhere and made fortunes building out Americas industrial infrastructure. In their pursuit of wealth, they put railroads in place, provided energy to American homes and manufactured the steel that built American cities. Many of the 19th Century American industrialists ended up giving away the majority of their fortunes in great acts of philanthropy. Is it right to call them Robber Barons? Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| How China is Helping to Reduce Inflation. | 29 Oct 2022 | 00:11:51 | |
China’s crackdown on property developers and its “Zero Covid" policy are harming its economy and the economies of countries selling raw materials to China. But there is an upside to Xi's actions, these policies are reducing inflationary pressures in the rest of the world. | |||
| Is London the Dirty Money Capital of The World? | 22 Oct 2022 | 00:25:39 | |
Russian oligarchs have kept their money in London for twenty years, encouraged by British bankers' lawyers and politicians. Critics say that the 'London laundromat' cleans dirty money from kleptocrats all over the world. This video looks at where dirty money comes from, how money laundering works why it took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to put this issue in the spotlight. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| Semiconductors: The Geopolitics of the New Oil | 14 Oct 2022 | 00:31:49 | |
The United States has introduced new export controls to restrict Chinese companies access to the most advanced computer chips which can be used to develop cutting-edge technologies with military applications. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| Pension And Mortgage Chaos In The UK | 29 Sep 2022 | 00:13:13 | |
The Bank of England had to step in to calm markets after the British government's economic plan sparked a fall in the pound and caused borrowing costs to surge. | |||
| Why Is The Pound Falling? | 27 Sep 2022 | 00:14:31 | |
The British pound plummeted on Friday after the government announced huge tax cuts in its mini-budget. It then plunged again on Monday, reaching $1.04 - the lowest level the pound has ever been against the dollar. Why is the British Pound Falling? Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| The Rise & Fall of Japan | 24 Sep 2022 | 00:28:39 | |
From 1991 through 2001, Japan experienced a period of economic stagnation and price deflation known as "Japan's Lost Decade." This was caused by the collapse of an asset price bubble in late 1991. The term originally referred to the 1990s, but the 2000s and the 2010s can be added to the list due to the country’s economic stagnation. We’ll look at the postwar Japanese economic miracle, the bubble economy of the late 1980’s and the lost decades that Japan has experienced since. We will also discuss any overlaps between the Japanese Economic miracle and the last thirty years of growth that has been seen in China – and discuss to what extent history could repeat itself. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| Is Russia Winning The Economic War? | 16 Sep 2022 | 00:27:33 | |
Vladimir Putin announced in a speech last month that Russia had weathered the worst of the Economic sanctions imposed by Western nations. He said that “gloomy predictions about the Russian economy’s future didn’t come true” and that the sanctions had hit foreign economies much harder than they had hit Russia. He added that “The weaponry of sanctions is a double-edged sword… and European countries had dealt a serious blow to their own economies all on their own.” So are the sanctions on Russia working? Or Is Russia winning the Economic War? Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| Millionaire Exodus? | 22 Jun 2024 | 00:28:39 | |
Millionaires are leaving the UK faster than any country in the world other than China, new data shows. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| The Vaporware Salesman | 09 Sep 2022 | 00:10:48 | |
John Keely was the founder of the Keely Motor Company. He announced that he had discovered a new physical force, one that, if harnessed, would produce unheard-of power. He claimed to be able to produce from a quart of water enough fuel to move a 30-car train from Philadelphia to New York City. | |||
| Protests In China: The Story Behind the Bank Scandals. | 07 Sep 2022 | 00:19:56 | |
In China, a major financial crisis is unfolding. A few months ago, four rural lenders in the northern province of Henan froze the deposits of hundreds of thousands of customers and Chinese citizens in 86 cities are boycotting mortgage payments towards their homes. Confidence in the financial sector has plunged. In this video we look at the story behind the bank scandals. | |||
| Will China Actually Allow Audit Inspections? | 01 Sep 2022 | 00:16:51 | |
The United States and China appear to have reached a landmark deal that would allow Chinese companies to remain listed on US exchanges, halting the threatened delisting of about 200 stocks that trade in New York. | |||
| The 1987 Crash - Wall Street History | 30 Aug 2022 | 00:28:13 | |
The first global financial crisis erupted in the autumn of 1987 on a day known as “Black Monday.” A chain reaction of market distress sent stock exchanges around the world plummeting in a matter of hours. In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 22.6 percent in a single trading session, a loss that remains the largest one-day stock market decline in history. At the time, it marked the sharpest market downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| The European Cost Of Living Crisis! | 25 Aug 2022 | 00:17:32 | |
Rising energy prices could push UK inflation as high as 18% next year according to Citi. European gas prices rose sharply this week due to supply fears, after Gazprom Russia’s energy firm announced it would shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline - the main gas supply line to Europe - to complete three days of unplanned maintenance. | |||
| Will The Inflation Reduction Act Reduce Inflation? | 19 Aug 2022 | 00:17:14 | |
This Tuesday Joe Biden signed into law a sweeping tax, healthcare, and climate bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, a significantly pared back version of the “Build Back Better Plan” which he was pushing for last year. | |||
| A Mistake To Avoid! | 12 Aug 2022 | 00:13:49 | |
This week, let's talk about Cathie Wood and The Ark Invest Disruptive Innovation Fund to see if there is anything we can learn from the rise and fall of ARKK? What mistakes do investors make when selecting funds to invest in. | |||
| What Killed Sri Lanka's Economy? | 04 Aug 2022 | 00:15:47 | |
In late June, Sri Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the country’s economy had “collapsed.” There was no money left to pay for imports of necessities like food, fuel and medicine, and the country was seeking help from neighboring countries and the IMF. | |||
| China's International Debt Crisis | 27 Jul 2022 | 00:21:58 | |
In 2013 President Xi Jinping announced the launch of his signature policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, the largest transnational infrastructure program ever undertaken by a single country. Today though, many of the loans financing these huge infrastructure projects are going bad and going bad in record numbers. | |||
| Will Elon Musk Be Forced to Buy Twitter? | 16 Jul 2022 | 00:22:57 | |
This Tuesday, Twitter’s sued Elon Musk to force him to honor his legally binding agreement to buy the company. Twitter asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to fast-track a trial for September. According to the complaint “Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away.” | |||
| Financial Nihilism - Understanding Meme Stocks & Crypto | 15 Jun 2024 | 00:22:11 | |
Demetri Kofinas came up with the term Financial Nihilism in 2019, describing it as a philosophy that treats the objects of speculation as though they are all intrinsically worthless. | |||
| Is DeFi Really Decentralized? | 25 Jun 2022 | 00:16:53 | |
Last week, three DeFi (decentralized finance) groups stepped in with emergency plans to protect their projects and users from economic turbulence in the face of collapsing cryptocurrency prices. | |||
| Investing In An Inflationary Environment! | 17 Jun 2022 | 00:20:59 | |
Inflation has turned from transitory to pernicious, with some economists even raising the specter of a 1970s-style wage-price spiral. Should you reposition your investment portfolio for an inflationary environment, shifting some of your money to sectors or asset classes that tend to do well during inflationary periods? Or should you leave your investments alone and let the markets control their long-term destiny? In today’s video we look at market history to see how securities prices are affected by inflation, interest rates and interest rate hikes. | |||
| The Rise And Fall Of Blitzscaling! | 08 Jun 2022 | 00:20:59 | |
Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly according to Reid Hoffmann the Founder of LinkedIn, and Elon Musk’s former partner at PayPal. Blitzscaling is high-impact entrepreneurship, it’s the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. | |||
| How Did Russian Oligarchs Get So Rich? | 30 May 2022 | 00:32:37 | |
Russian Oligarchs have become synonymous with superyachts, luxury mansions and the shady political maneuvering of post-Soviet Russia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian billionaires like Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Potanin, Alisher Usmanov and Oleg Deripaska have been all over the news. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| The Coming Food Catastrophe | 20 May 2022 | 00:15:06 | |
The widely accepted idea of a cost-of-living crisis does not begin to capture the gravity of what may lie ahead according to António Guterres, the UN secretary general. He warned earlier this week that the coming months threaten “the spectre of a global food shortage” that could last for years. The high cost of staple foods has already raised the number of people who cannot be sure of getting enough to eat by 440m, to 1.6bn. Nearly 250m are on the brink of famine. | |||
| Stablecoins Are Unstable! | 13 May 2022 | 00:22:09 | |
The $1.3tn cryptocurrency industry was on Thursday hit by one of its toughest challenges when stablecoin Tether — a critical cog in the market — failed to maintain its link with the US dollar. The company refuses to provide details on the Treasury holdings that back the stablecoin claiming their fear of revealing the ‘secret sauce.’ | |||
| The Economic Effects of China's Zero Covid Policy | 07 May 2022 | 00:19:08 | |
Xi Jinping has reaffirmed his commitment to China’s controversial zero-Covid strategy, warning against “any slackening” in the effort and vowing to crack down on criticism of the policy despite signs of damage to the economy. | |||
| Bill Hwang arrested on fraud charges! | 30 Apr 2022 | 00:18:14 | |
Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Capital Management, has been arrested by US authorities and charged with racketeering, fraud and market manipulation. | |||
| Elon Musk- Corporate Raider - Will He Actually Buy Twitter? | 22 Apr 2022 | 00:29:02 | |
Elon Musk - The world’s richest man has allegedly hired the investment bank Morgan Stanley and is trying to gather financing, so he can buy Twitter for $43 billion. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| The Weaponization Of The Dollar | 11 Apr 2022 | 00:21:32 | |
The sanctions on Russia’s central bank use the reserve currency status of the US dollar to punish an American adversary. Will the US dollar lose its exorbitant privilege? What currency might replace the US Dollar as a reserve currency? | |||
| Election Chaos! India, Mexico & South Africa | 09 Jun 2024 | 00:24:42 | |
India’s stock market took its worst tumble in four years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP lost its parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome. Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| Russian Oil Priced In Roubles | 02 Apr 2022 | 00:12:29 | |
Vladimir Putin has demanded payment in roubles for Russian gas sold to “unfriendly” countries, setting a deadline of 31 March for the transition. | |||
| Planes Trapped In Russia! | 26 Mar 2022 | 00:14:10 | |
As the clock runs down to Monday's sanctions deadline for Russian airlines to hand back more than 450 leased planes worth almost $10 billion, foreign lessors are fast losing hope that they will get their planes back. As the owners rushed to repossess the planes, the Kremlin moved quickly to block this by passing a law allowing foreign airplanes to be re-registered in Russia, effectively nationalizing them. | |||
| The Nickel Trading Catastrophe on the LME | 19 Mar 2022 | 00:21:25 | |
In markets, there are few principles considered more important by traders than the idea that when a commitment to a deal is made, it should stand come what may. | |||
| What Happens To Sanctioned Oligarchs Assets? | 12 Mar 2022 | 00:19:13 | |
The UK announced new sanctions yesterday relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, targeting seven oligarchs with links to Vladimir Putin. Among them is Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC. | |||
| Will The West Ban Russian Oil Imports? | 05 Mar 2022 | 00:13:44 | |
In Today’s podcast we discuss if the west can place an embargo on Russian energy exports? | |||
| The Economic Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. | 27 Feb 2022 | 00:18:15 | |
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine risks disrupting the export of critical commodities and rupturing supply chains. Industries from food to cars and fertilizer makers to aircraft manufacturers will be hit by disruption to exports. | |||
| What Does Being Cut Off From SWIFT Mean For Russia? | 26 Feb 2022 | 00:08:05 | |
The US President said on Thursday that the United States and Europe were united in their efforts to confront Russian aggression toward Ukraine with aggressive sanctions. However, there was one area where he suggested that there was some disagreement: SWIFT. | |||
| Meet Razzlekhan - 'The Crocodile of Wall Street' | 13 Feb 2022 | 00:15:35 | |
A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in Bitcoin stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever. | |||
| DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Short Selling! | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:12:47 | |
US criminal authorities are gathering information on contacts among dozens of short selling hedge funds and research outfits as they investigate possible trading abuses by hedge funds. This comes after complaints from GameStop and AMC Shareholders. | |||
| The Consequences of China's Slowdown | 27 Jan 2022 | 00:16:04 | |
China’s Economy Is Slowing Which Could Have Big Consequences for the World. | |||
| How WallStreetBets Really Started - Trolls of Wall Street - With Nathaniel Popper | 04 Jun 2024 | 00:55:31 | |
Trolls of Wall Street on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4e40D5M Investment Insights You've Never Heard Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify | |||
| Private Money and Cryptocurrencies | 19 Jan 2022 | 00:21:42 | |
In the United States, the government is not the only entity legally allowed to issue money. Private citizens and businesses are allowed to do so, too, and throughout U.S. history, they have done this. This type of money is referred to as private money, and it had mostly disappeared from circulation until Bitcoin was created in 2009. Today more than eight thousand cryptocurrencies exist, and more are appearing every day. | |||
| Pandemic Real Estate Bubble? | 13 Jan 2022 | 00:19:32 | |
During the pandemic, house prices have increased even faster than they did in the period leading up to the 2007 financial crisis, stoking concern that another dangerous housing bubble is developing. In this week's podcast we compare the current real estate market to the bubble years before the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 | |||
| Elizabeth Holmes Conviction – Is this a Golden Era of Fraud? | 06 Jan 2022 | 00:15:04 | |
On Monday we saw the fraud conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. This conviction we are told in the press has split Silicon Valley. Supporters worry that the spirit of entrepreneurship has been put in ‘jeopardy’ while others say she overstepped boundaries. | |||