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.
Market Mayhem · Episode 15 · 2007–2009 · USA / Global The Big Short: How Wall Street Burned the World Subprime Mortgages, CDOs, Lehman Brothers — and the Day the Global Credit System Nearly Stopped September 15, 2008: Lehman Brothers…
Market Mayhem · Episode 14 · 2001 · Argentina Corralito: When They Locked the Banks Argentina’s Collapse: Five Presidents in Ten Days, $93 Billion Default, and the Day a Government Froze Its Own Citizens’ Savings The lesson every investor in…
Market Mayhem · Episode 13 · 1995–2000 · USA / Global Pets.com and a Trillion Dollars of Hope The Dot-Com Bubble: When the Rules of Valuation Were Suspended NASDAQ +500% in 5 years. Then -78%. $5 trillion destroyed. The most…
Market Mayhem · Episode 12 · 1997 · Thailand / Asia The Baht Heard Round the World George Soros, a Currency Peg, and the Collapse of the Asian Miracle The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis: $600 billion in lost economic output,…
Market Mayhem · Episode 11 · December 1994 · Mexico Tequila Hangover How a Currency Peg Collapsed in 48 Hours and Broke a Continent The Mexican Peso Crisis of 1994: NAFTA’s golden child, a reserve pile that ran dry, and…
Market Mayhem · Episode 10 · 1989–2024 · Japan The Sun Also Falls Japan’s Lost Decades: The Market That Took 35 Years to Recover Nikkei 38,915 on December 29, 1989. The same level reached again in 2024. “Markets always come…
Scene · a possible morning, not a prediction 9:41 AM. New York. The S&P 500 is down 7% and the orange “trading halt” banner has just appeared on Bloomberg terminals across three continents. Treasury yields are exploding higher. The CNBC…
Market Mayhem · Episode 09 · October 19, 1987 · Global 508 Points in 508 Minutes The Largest Single-Day Percentage Decline in Stock Market History Black Monday: the crash that portfolio insurance was designed to prevent — and inadvertently caused.…
Market Mayhem · Episode 08 · 1982 · Latin America The Dominoes Begin How Paul Volcker’s Fight Against American Inflation Destroyed a Continent The Latin American Debt Crisis: $327 billion in loans. Twenty percent interest rates. And a decade of…
Market Mayhem · Episode 07 · 1982 · Kuwait The Stock Market in the Desert A parking garage. Postdated cheques. And $94 billion in promises. The Souk Al-Manakh collapse: the financial crisis almost nobody in the West has ever heard…
Today, after eight months of writing, I’m launching my second book. Market Mayhem is now live on Amazon Kindle. If you’ve followed this site or the podcast, you already know the framework: Mind · Method · Money. The first book,…
Market Mayhem · Episode 06 · 1980 · USA Corner the World’s Silver The Hunt Brothers, Silver Thursday, and the Day the Exchange Changed the Rules Two billionaire brothers accumulated one-third of the world’s privately held silver. Then the exchange…
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