When Greed Meets Gravity — 18 episodes covering the great manias, bubbles, and crashes from 1637 to 2022. Companion podcast series and forthcoming book exploring market psychology through history’s most spectacular failures.
In one week, US crude closed above $100, consumer staples had their best week since February, and technology had its worst since April 2025. The November WTI contract rose 10.41% to settle at $101.41 on Friday 16 October 2026, after…
In the week of 12 to 16 October 2026, the chip index fell 11.41% and the companies that borrowed to buy the chips fell twice as hard. The PHLX Semiconductor Index had its worst week since April 2025, closing lower…
Gold miners have just been more expensive, measured in barrels of oil, than at any time since 1975. In February 2026 a basket of gold-mining shares bought more crude than it had in fifty years. Then war with Iran all…
On Friday 2 October 2026, France’s 10-year bond yield touched 4.989%, its highest since 2002. The gap over equivalent German debt widened to 152 basis points, the most since the eurozone debt crisis of 2011, and the cost of insuring…
The US Treasury market has just had its worst quarter since the first three months of 1994. The 10-year yield rose 87 basis points in the third quarter to end September at 5.29%, the largest quarterly increase in more than…
For forty years, every stock investor had a silent partner: falling interest rates. They lifted valuations, cheapened borrowing, and made bonds the reliable hedge in every portfolio. Most of what passes for investing common sense today was learned while that…
Hyman Minsky spent a career arguing something that sounds like a paradox and is a mechanism. Stability is destabilising. A long calm period does not reduce the probability of a crisis. It manufactures one, and it does so through the…
Every few months somebody declares the AI trade a bubble. A few weeks later somebody else declares that this time is genuinely different. Both camps reach for the year 2000 as their reference point, and both usually stop at the…
Market Mayhem · Episode 18 · 2021–2022 · Global · Series Finale When JPEGs Were Worth Millions The NFT/Crypto Bubble, FTX’s Collapse, and $8 Billion in Missing Customer Funds Bitcoin to $69,000. Bored Apes selling for millions. Sam Bankman-Fried on…
Market Mayhem has been an audio series since April. Today it becomes something more. Our first full cinematic documentary is live on YouTube: the story of John Law and the Mississippi Bubble of 1720, told in eighteen minutes of period…
Market Mayhem · Episode 17 · March 2022 · London The Nickel Squeeze The Day the London Metal Exchange Cancelled Billions in Completed Trades Nickel +250% in two trading days. The largest commodity move in modern history. Then the exchange…
Market Mayhem · Episode 16 · May 6, 2010 · USA Flash Crash: The Day the Machines Went Rogue How One Algorithm Erased a Trillion Dollars in 15 Minutes — and Where It Went 2:32 PM, May 6, 2010. Accenture…
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