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Nov. 11, 2024

Sonic Shifts: How Tech and Culture are Changing the Music Industry wi…

This week we welcome Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research who has had a ringside seat for years and years of bubbles, be it the creator economy, NFTs or AI music, or just everyone claiming they are gaining market share at …

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Nov. 4, 2024

New Media Overtaking Old Media with Lauren Jarvis

Podcasts are having another moment: Trump on Joe Rogan, Kamala on Call Her Daddy. New media is overtaking old media in audience and influence. Back in early 2023, we welcomed guest Lauren Jarvis, who helped bring Rogan to Sp...

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Oct. 28, 2024

Solving for X

Repeat from November, 2023. For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubbletroublepodcast.com You can learn more about Richard at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kramer-1630...

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Oct. 21, 2024

When Companies Outgrow Countries

The past week has seen US stocks–and gold, btw–rally to record highs. This week, we’re going to apply the magnifying glass to the ‘Magnificent Seven’ that are driving this rally and ask what happens when the sheer size of the...

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Oct. 14, 2024

BT 128 Labour’s 100 Days: No Bubbles, Some Troubles

We thought we’d get a little political on this week’s show. Are we serving up a bubble that was a landslide UK election, or is the new government trouble a bubble? And we want to deconstruct Will’s Pessimism Paradox as …

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Oct. 7, 2024

Open AI: For What It's Worth

We always try to flag the smoke signals of mischievous market behaviour that gets society and stock portfolios into trouble. Are we about to get fooled again by the hype and hysteria surrounding the poster child Open AI? Or...

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Sept. 30, 2024

You Can't Lead If You Don't Know Where You're Going: Big Tech vs Big …

This week we speak with Bill Raduchel, who has served as a high-level executive and strategic adviser for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, AOL Time Warner, Xerox, McGraw-Hill, and the Salvation Army. Over half a centur...

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Sept. 23, 2024

Law Without Lawyers: A Conversation with Damien Riehl

One of the first casualties of the AI race may be lawyers, and that’s where we go this week with Damien Riehl who is at the front line of disrupting the legal profession. Law without lawyers? Really? Are we moving …

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Sept. 16, 2024

AI Supremacy and Ethical Dilemmas: A Conversation with Parmy Olson

Today we’ve got a page turner…not that Page, our co-presenter…but a book that brings the AI battle to life: Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World, Written by our guest, Parmy Olson. Buckle up as it's …

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Sept. 9, 2024

Definitely (Maybe) Dynamic Booms and Busts

We’re back from summer break and we want to revisit some past pods as they get dragged into the current of current events, making our predictions as good - or even better - than the AI led herd. Today we’ve …

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Sept. 2, 2024

Constructing Bubbles with David Trainer

This week we’re going to keep on pricking bubbles with a fellow cynic of the sycophants and stenographers. Here to help us is David Trainer of New Constructs, whose company makes “robo-adjustments” to the reported accounts of...

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Aug. 26, 2024

Reddit and Weep

So let's look forward and prepare you for the next big sexy blockbuster tech IPO, you’ve read all about it - that’s right. Reddit is going to ring the bell. For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, …

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Aug. 19, 2024

Kill the Chicken to Scare The Monkey with guest Linda Yueh

This week we talk with Linda Yueh, author of the book The Great Crashes. Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in financial history. From the currency crises o...

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Aug. 12, 2024

Thames Water gets Whacked with guest Feargal Sharkey

Today, we welcome back Feargal Sharkey, who visited Bubble Trouble last summer and dropped a (water) bomb on our privatized utilities. He’s fought the noble fight to expose Thames Water as profiteering polluters. Nine months ...

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Aug. 5, 2024

In Conversation with Former Enron CFO Andy Fastow Part Two

For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubbletroublepodcast.com You can learn more about Richard at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kramer-16306b2/ More on Will Page at: h...

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July 29, 2024

In Conversation with Former Enron CFO Andy Fastow Part One

For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubbletroublepodcast.com You can learn more about Richard at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kramer-16306b2/ More on Will Page at: h...

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July 22, 2024

The Summer of Discontent

This week, we freeform on two topics: summer music festivals and the stock markets. Will has identified a very interesting bubble this summer, which is the rapid cancellation of music festivals. Perhaps because supply got ahe...

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July 15, 2024

AI Bubbles are Bursting with Andrew Orlowski

Today we’ve got a guest who's been doing our job for decades. Andrew Orlowski is a writer who has followed the technology industry for two decades, so he’s see the hype cycle peak and trough many times. For more on …

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July 8, 2024

When Bubbles Become Clouds

[Repeat from November, 2023.] For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubbletroublepodcast.com You can learn more about Richard at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kramer-16...

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July 1, 2024

Calling Bubbles with Benedict Evans (Part Two)

This week, part two of our continued conversation with Benedict Evans, an analyst with over 175,000 avid readers for his tech blog. For more on Bubble Trouble, including transcripts of the show, visit us online at http://bubb...

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June 24, 2024

Calling Bubbles with Benedict Evans (Part One)

This week we are talking bubbles - or not! - with Benedict Evans, an analyst with over 175,000 avid readers for his tech blog. We’ve done our level best to reflect on why bubbles happen, but what about calling them …

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June 17, 2024

Tech’s Set Piece Marketing

This week we’re going to split lanes as we’ve got breaking news coming out of Canada that Will’s been knee deep in: soon after their Government tried to regulate Google and Meta news, they’re now after Spotify and Netflix. Th...

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June 10, 2024

Gatekeepers and Regulatory Bubbles

This week we turn to regulatory bubbles and the new buzz word: Gatekeepers! What are they, and what are they not and what gates do they actually keep? In forty five days, the European Commission drummed up an answer, while …

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June 1, 2024

DoJ Whacks Ticket Prices

This summer, a lot of us (and our children) will be packing our tents and heading to music festivals and concerts - there is trouble brewing. At one end, good luck buying a ticket and watching those fees add up. …

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