Julian Winkler is the co-author of the paper “Reddit’s self-organised bull runs: Social contagion and asset prices” about the subreddit Wall Street Bets. The paper makes a “theoretical case for how ‘hype’ among retail investors can drive large asset fluctuations”. The paper was written before the GameStop Saga kicked off, but the interesting…
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Chatter #205 – Joël Valenzuela on Dash, Dogecoin, and Living Unbanked For 5 Years
Joël Valenzuela has been living without a banked account (or “unbanked”) since 2016. Hes began with Bitcoin, but when that became too expensive he began transacting with Dash instead and now he actually works for the firm! Dash is part of the digital cash race, alongside Dogecoin, Bitcoin Lightning Network, BCH, BSV, and…
Chatter #203 – Professor James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Part 1: Does Freedom Lead To Prosperity?
Why Nations Fail may be the best book I have read this year, so I was absolutely delighted when both of the authors agreed to speak to me on my podcast! This is the first of these interviews, with Professor James A. Robinson. The main idea that I took from the book was…
Chatter #199 – Professor Paul Frijters: Lockdowns, Science, And The Great Covid Panic
A lot of the discussion about an inquiry into the covid response has been, in my view, poorly framed. There are massive lessons to be learned from this pandemic, but I believe that a huge segment of this is being ignored – what the cost of lockdowns will be and has already been….
Chatter #193 – Timothy E. Lee On AI, Self Driving Cars, and The Future Of Transport
Timothy B. Lee is a reporter who has written about technology, economics, and public policy for more than a decade. He joined the Washington Post in 2013 to lead a team covering tech policy. The next year he left the Post along with Ezra Klein and several other Post staffers to launch Vox.com….
Chatter #192 LIVE – Sanjeev Sabhlok: What The F*ck Is Going On Down Under?
Sanjeev Sabhlok is back for round 2 on Chatter! Sanjeev is the author of “The Great Hysteria and the Broken State” and a complaint to the International Criminal Court” – the latter is free so people can get an idea of the criminality of the current policies by reading it free of cost….
