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In this episode we turn to the most recent major market shock in our series: the COVID-19 Crash of February and March 2020—a global event unlike any before it, where a non-financial crisis, a deadly virus, brought the...

The Global Financial Crisis is a pivotal moment in modern economic history, one that reshaped the global financial system and left lasting scars on societies around the world. To create a more in-depth version, let's...

In this episode we turn to one of the most iconic, technologically defining, and psychologically revealing bubbles in modern history: the Dot-Com Bubble of 1995 to 2000. This is the story of how the commercialization of...

In this episode we turn to one of the most extraordinary and longest-lasting asset bubbles in modern history: the Japanese Asset Price Bubble of the late 1980s and early 1990s. This is the story of how Japan—once the...

In this episode, we move closer to our own time—to October 19, 1987, the day known forever as Black Monday. This is the story of the largest single-day percentage drop in stock-market history: the Dow Jones Industrial...

In this episode we arrive at one of the most infamous and consequential financial catastrophes in modern history: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed in its wake. This is the story of...

Today we step into the smoky, clanging, coal-fired world of the 1840s British railway boom — an episode known to history as Railway Mania. This is the story of how a genuinely transformative technology, the steam...

In this episode we step forward less than a century to the twin financial catastrophes of 1720: the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in Britain. These two events unfolded almost simultaneously...

In this episode we turn our full attention to one single, legendary event that has haunted financial history for nearly four centuries: Tulip Mania, or Tulpenmanie, in the Dutch Republic during the winter of 1636–1637.

The financial exchange landscape of early 2026 looks nothing like the world we left at the end of the 20th century. Total global equity market capitalization sits somewhere between 120 and 130 trillion U.S. dollars...

In this episode we will focus on a massive push to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., creating jobs, securing supply chains, and rebuilding our industrial base. It's not hype, the Reshoring Initiative's latest data...

In this episode we are going to have honest chat about why defense is one of the purest de-globalization plays, what’s driving the boom, how the big primes and smaller players performed in 2025, the challenges we...

This is going to be a long episode, we're aiming for a comprehensive chat, like sitting around a campfire recounting legends. So grab your coffee, tea, or whatever fuels your curiosity, settle in, and let's rewind the...

In this episode we will focus on one trend that's absolutely dominated the trading conversation this year, it's the mania around options, and specifically those zero-days-to-expiration contracts, the 0DTEs.

In this episode, we enter the 20th century - the most violent,inventive, and psychologically revealing period in the history of exchanges. Two world wars shut down trading floors. The greatest economic collapse in...