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This podcast is all about quantitative finance and financial history. Subscribe to hear about financial markets, derivatives, and how investors use quantitative tools from statistics and corporate finance theory. Included are interviews with some of the most interesting thinkers in finance. Occasional longer form financial documentaries, open up fascinating elements of financial markets history. Patrick Boyle is a quantitative hedge fund manager, a university professor, and a former investme ...
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Send us a text According to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, almost half of all corporate money contributed to this year's US election campaigns has come from crypto backers and politicians are bending to their will with promises to reduce regulation and consumer protections. Why do Trump and Kamala Harris suddenly support crypto? In tod…
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Send us a text In a recent CNBC interview Tony Robbins extolled the virtues of investing in private equity, arguing that private equity provided high returns – with low risk. Is he right? Should everyone invest in Private Equity? Patrick's Books Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0 Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amz…
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Send us a text Automakers are hedging their bets on electric vehicles and stepping up their investment in hybrid cars as consumers’ growing disinterest in fully electric vehicles has forced the industry to shift gear. A combination of high EV depreciation and concern over inadequate charging infrastructure has chilled buyers’ enthusiasm for fully e…
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Send us a text It seems like every day the tech industry comes out with a "brilliant new idea” that turns out to be merely a reinvention of a mundane product that already existed. Tech bros keep reinventing the bus, but they have also taken to reinventing the tea pot, the toothbrush, the lunchbreak and the public park. In today's video we look at t…
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Send us a text The British government is closing in on a bailout of the Chinese owned British Steel in which taxpayers would inject £600 million pounds into the group. British Steel is one of only two manufacturers of “virgin steel” in the UK alongside Tata Steel at Port Talbot in Wales which some industry experts claim is strategically important. …
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Send us a text In recent years, a number of companies have been caught claiming to use artificial intelligence while in reality, outsourcing this work to humans. The SEC recently settled with two funds who were misleading investors about their use of the technology. While artificial intelligence has been widely used in industry for decades, not all…
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Send us a text Sign up for Compounded Daily at this link: https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ I welcome my friend Adam Robinson to the podcast, the person who has had possibly the most interesting career of anyone I know. He was a teenage Chess prodigy who trained with Bobby Fischer as Fischer prepared to play Boris Spassky for the 1972 world champion…
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Send us a text Over the next five years the largest cohort of the baby boomer generation will reach retirement age and while it is broadly assumed that they will have comfortable retirements, a recent analysis of their assets shows that more than half of this final group of boomers are not financially prepared to retire whatsoever. In today's video…
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Send us a text This Monday was one of the worst days for global stock markets in years, Stocks in the US, Europe and Japan tanked on Friday and again on Monday before a partial rebound. Bond yields and foreign exchange rates swung around wildly too. The Magnificent seven stocks lost about $1 trillion dollars in value in just two days. So, what exac…
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Send us a text Big Tech is slashing hundreds of thousands of jobs and blaming artificial intelligence, but there may be more to the story than that. Intel just announced fifteen thousand layoffs yesterday, causing their stock price to plunge. Big Tech, who for over a decade provided all sorts of employee perks may no longer be the dream place to wo…
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Send us a text The activist short seller Andrew Left surrendered to authorities in Los Angeles on Monday to face federal criminal securities fraud charges, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office there said. Both the SEC and a federal grand jury in the Central District of California brought charges against Andrew Left a prominent activist short …
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Send us a text A Texas District Judge Andrew S. Hanen has dismissed all charges against seven social-media influencers the SEC and Justice Department had accused of perpetrating a “stock manipulation scheme” on Twitter and Discord, ruling that the prosecution failed to state an offense in a case alleging securities fraud. The influencers were accus…
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Send us a text U.S. stocks are expected to get a short-term boost in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend, as analysts say the likelihood of his victory in November has increased. Trump's lead has extended itself since Biden's poor debate performance two weeks ago which left his biggest supp…
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Send us a text Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and con man who invented a Central American country called “Poyais,” in 1820 which he claimed to rule as the “Cazique.” MacGregor attempted to draw British and French investors and settlers to his fictional country. Hundreds invested in Poyaisian government bonds and land certifica…
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Send us a text Julia is a snowboarder and an artist. She rides for Ripping Giraffe and Rude Girls and her art can be seen on the outerwear of several notable pros including MFR and Jared Elston. Julia is a great example of the future of the snowboard community. The Ninth Season of the FNRad Podcast is Presented by Skyview Campers Social: https://ww…
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Send us a text Every year, people around the world lose millions of dollars to a sophisticated scam known as “the pig butchering romance scam”. The scam takes its name from the victims, who the scammers call “pigs” that they "fatten up" before slaughter. It usually begins with a text message that appears to be a wrong number. People who respond are…
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Send us a text Millionaires are leaving the UK faster than any country in the world other than China, new data shows. According to the Henley Private Wealth Migration Report, 9,500 millionaires, defined in US dollar terms are leaving the UK this year. Only China - which has more than twice as many people with seven-figure net worths - saw more mill…
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Send us a text Demetri Kofinas came up with the term Financial Nihilism in 2019, describing it as a philosophy that treats the objects of speculation as though they are all intrinsically worthless. Financial nihilism according to Demetri represents an ideological standpoint that questions the value and legitimacy of financial systems, markets, and …
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Send us a text Aaron Vincent is an OG Tahoe Pro Snowboarder who had a pro model on Sims during the golden era of snowboarding. Aaron was Noah's best friend and lived with him during the formative years of their pro careers. The Ninth Season of the FNRad Podcast is Presented by Skyview Campers Social: https://www.instagram.com/skyviewcampers Website…
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Send us a text India’s stock market took its worst tumble in four years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP lost its parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome. This result means that Modi will need to rely on smaller parties to form a governing majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament, raising uncertainty abou…
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Send us a text Joel Gomez is the man behind Sessions outerwear and the Sessions Shop which was the first snowboard specific shop in America!! Joel's deep roots in snowboarding started when Steve Caballero introduced him to it in 1980!! Joel helped with Sims in the early 80's and worked with Santa Cruz during the Roach era... We need to have Joel on…
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Send us a text Trolls of Wall Street on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4e40D5M An interview with Nathaniel Popper the author of Trolls of Wall Street - How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets. Trolls of Wall Street is a new book telling the story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural…
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Send us a text Red Lobster was America’s largest casual dining seafood chain, with almost 600 locations across the United States and Canada. Its bankruptcy was announced earlier this week. The bankruptcy declaration insinuates that the chains equity owner who was also their biggest seafood supplier might have decided that their equity stake in the …
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Send us a text Over a four-day period Japan is suspected to have carried out two interventions to support the yen at an estimated cost of $59 billion dollars. The first intervention came after the yen fell below 160 to the dollar for the first time in 34 years. The second intervention came a few days later after Jerome Powell announced that a rate …
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Send us a text Mike Chantry was involved in most major snowboarding contests beginning with the 1983 Worlds (featuring the first snowboarding halfpipe ever) all the way through the US Open and Olympics games. Mike scored 17th at that first contest and is a solid snowboarder in his own right. He puts on the Legends of Tahoe with Don Bostick to this …
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Send us a text Europe’s largest oil and gas company Shell was accused in an investigative report from Greenpeace Canada of selling millions of carbon credits tied to CO2 removal that never took place. Let’s look at what Shell did, how carbon offsets work, and how environmentally beneficial they actually are. Patrick's Books: Statistics For The Trad…
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Send us a text Don Bostick is the Godfather of the N-Men (go watch the documentary right now!!) Don created the x-games, the Norther California amateur snowboard series, and too many events to list! Don is snowboarding royalty and I was stoked to finally meet him and sit down for an interview with him at this year's legends of Tahoe event. Support …
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Send us a text The Société Générale Delta One Desk is back in the news after two traders were dismissed - accused of placing unauthorized risky options trades. Kavish Kataria – one of the traders in question - attacked the banks leadership with a LinkedIn post on Thursday saying the “entire risk team and other bosses” were equally responsible for t…
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Send us a text Austen Sweetin is an absolute legend of a pro snowboarder. He's been creating amazing snowboard media for almost 15 years. He started Boardslide Worldwide Media with his friend Sean Lucey and he's married to pro snowboarder Robin Van Gyn. Austen joins us for the final episode of season 9. We recorded at his house near Mt Baker the we…
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Send us a text Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission is suing to block Tapestry's $8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings, saying the deal would harm consumers by reducing competition and raising prices in the affordable luxury handbag sector. Monday's lawsuit challenges the proposed deal that would have Tapestry controlling Coach, Kate Spade, St…
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Send us a text Check out Eight Sleep and unlock $200 off using my link: https://www.eightsleep.com/boyle/ British stocks closed at an all-time high this week, but as exciting as a new all-time high might sound, the British stock market has been lagging US and European stocks since the Brexit referendum. A recent report from Goldman Sachs says that …
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Send us a text Two legends of snowboarding join us for short interviews from the Legends of Tahoe event at Donner Ranch. Mike Jacoby is an OG Burton A team rider from the era of the Mystery Air. Laurie Asperas set out to show the world that women belong in extreme sports. The Ninth Season of the FNRad Podcast is Presented by Skyview Campers Social:…
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Send us a text Tom Hsieh is the godfather of snowboarding media. He started Absolutely Radical Magazine in 1985 years before Transworld. Here we have the story of how he started the world's first snowboard mag and why he eventually changed the name to ISM. This is a piece of snowboarding history I'm seriously proud of. Recorded in person with Tom H…
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Send us a text Saudi Arabia’s plan to build a 170km long, 500m tall, mirrored city in the desert, filled with 9 million people has been curtailed to 2.4km long. According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project. The Saudi government had hoped…
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