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 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…
Market Mayhem · Episode 05 · October 1929 · USA Black Tuesday: The Day America Stopped Believing $14 billion. One day. The crash that started the Great Depression. Jesse Livermore shorted it perfectly and made $100 million. Then lost it…
Market Mayhem · Episode 04 · 1840s · United Kingdom Iron Horses and Paper Fortunes The Railway Mania of the 1840s: When Britain Bet Its Future on Steam The Brontë sisters invested. Parliament voted on its own portfolio. And the…
Market Mayhem · Episode 03 · 1720 · United Kingdom The Bubble That Broke Britain “I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” — Isaac Newton, 1720. After losing £20,000 in the South Sea…
Market Mayhem · Episode 02 · 1720 · France 🎬 Now a cinematic documentary — watch the full 18-minute film: The Wizard of the Mississippi How a Convicted Murderer Destroyed France’s Economy — and Invented the Word “Millionaire” John Law:…
The story of Tulip Mania, the world's first financial bubble. How flower bulbs became worth more than mansions in 1637 Netherlands, and the timeless trading lessons every modern trader needs to hear. Market Mayhem Series EP01.
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