Professor John Turner and Dr William Quinn of Queen’s University Belfast were my guests on today’s show. They are the authors of the recent book, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, which has been critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, and the Irish Times, and…
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Chatter #209 – Simon Youel On Positive Money, Inflation, and Quantitative Easing
Have you ever wondered how a government budget works? How borrowing works? Whether the magic money tree really exists? Positive Money are a group hoping to educate people on how a sovereign government has the ability to create and spend money. Simon Youel is Head of Policy & Advocacy at Positive Money, a…
Chatter #208 – Julian Winkler: How Ideas Spread On Reddit And Wall Street Bets
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…
Chatter #207 – Kirby Sommers: The Latest On Prince Andrew And Ghislaine Maxwell
I had Kirby Sommers back on my show to talk all about the Prince Andrew lawsuit vs Virginia Giuffre. She has sued him for sexual allegations dating back to the early 2000s when she was being held as a prisoner/slave for Jeffrey Epstein. We also spoke about the latest from the Ghislaine Maxwell…
Chatter #206 – Steve Topple On Fighting The Establishment, Poverty, and Independent Journalism
Steve Topple is a journalist at the Canary who specialises in issues surrounding disability, health, housing, class, economics and government. ‘Mr Topple’ is also now making waves as an innovative music journalist, breaking the mould in terms of his approach to the industry. He regularly writes for one of the world’s leading music…
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…
