Patrick Boyle On Finance
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 investment banker. To contact Patrick visit http://onfinance.org Find Patrick on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickBoyleOnFinance DISCLAIMER:This podcast is not affiliated with any financial institution. The information provided is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Those seeking investment advice should seek out a registered professional in their home jurisdiction and confirm their credentials on your national regulator's website. Patrick Boyle is not responsible for any investment actions taken by viewers and his content should not be used as a basis for investment or other financial decisions.
Episodes
217 episodes since 2021
Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist
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...
September 12, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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25:15
The Great British Bailout
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...
September 03, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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26:53
When AI is Just Badly Paid Humans!
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 tech...
August 25, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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23:25
Adam Robinson - Strategy for Investing and for Life
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August 21, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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1:35:46
America's Retirement Timebomb!
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...
August 17, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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26:10
What's Behind Last Week's Stock Market Drama
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.Th...
August 12, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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25:32
Big Tech Doesn't Want You Anymore
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, ...
August 04, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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24:21
Short-Seller Andrew Left Charged With Fraud!
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 ...
July 30, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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31:50
Pump and Dump Schemes are Now Totally Legal
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...
July 21, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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20:27
Will Trump Pump the Stock Market?
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 ha...
July 15, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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32:35
History's Greatest Conman!
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 t...
July 06, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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29:58
The Pig Butchering Scam!
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 sl...
June 29, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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27:20
Millionaire Exodus?
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. ...
June 22, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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28:03
Financial Nihilism - Understanding Meme Stocks & Crypto
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...
June 15, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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22:11
Election Chaos! India, Mexico & South Africa
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 go...
June 09, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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24:04
How WallStreetBets Really Started - Trolls of Wall Street - With Nathaniel Popper
Trolls of Wall Street on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4e40D5MAn interview with Nathaniel Popper the author of Trolls of Wall Street - How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets. Trolls of Wa...
June 04, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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54:54
Was Endless Shrimp to Blame for Red Lobster's Bankruptcy?
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 ow...
May 27, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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17:43
Japan Spent 60 Billion Dollars Defending The Yen!
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 y...
May 20, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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26:02
Shell's Fake Carbon Credit Scandal Explained!
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 wo...
May 11, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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29:23
Won't Somebody Please Think of The Traders??
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 ...
May 04, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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17:40
The Handbag Wars! - Has The FTC Lost Control?
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...
April 29, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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20:05
Is Britain Falling Behind?
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 l...
April 24, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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28:54
Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
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 ambition...
April 16, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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32:01
What Happened to Electric Vehicle Sales?
Sales growth of electric vehicles has slowed dramatically this year. Tesla delivered 20% fewer cars in the first quarter of 2024 than in the prior quarter, and BYD who was previously the world’s biggest EV maker saw sales decline more tha...
April 05, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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24:43
What the End of Japan’s Negative Interest Rates Means
Japan’s central bank raised interest rates last week for the first time in seventeen years, ending the world’s only remaining negative interest rate regime. The Bank of Japan also abandoned its yield curve control policy which has been in place...
March 29, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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14:28