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.
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…
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…
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