The Economic Story
Our lives are impacted by the forces of economics in various ways. From the salary that we get paid, the price that we pay for groceries, the products that we find in our markets, inflation, recession and much more. On the surface, economics appears to only deal with financial matters, but once you start peeling the onion, you will start to see how many thing that you'd have never thought are related to economics are in fact related. You start to see this world in a new light. In this podcast I look forward to examining the economic perspective of everything that happens in our world.
Episodes
In this episode, I review the latest data we have gathered with regards to inflation in the US. Today, we received the PPI data. Yesterday, it was CPI. Now we can put these two datapoints on top of PCE data for Feb that we received around end of March. This is starting to create a picture of how the producer and the consumer is experiencing inflation, and how the Central Banks are starting to posture in regards to inflation.
I have traded in markets for a number of years now. Based on that experience, in this episode I discuss about the concept of a personality if one were to be attributed to the market.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
In this episode, I conclude the topic of markets.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
So far, we have been building a model of a market and a market system. In this episode, we will push that model to the edge. We will explore the dark side of markets.
Once I had this model of a market and I started to examinw different things around our world, different phenomenon via that lens, a lot of things started to make sense. What is also interesting is that these occurrences from our real world fit very well into this mode...
This is chapter 15 within the mega-episode "What is a market?"
In this episode, I plan the discuss about the concept of market failure.
Markets do not always work perfectly. Sometimes markets fail as well.
So, what do we mean by market failure?
And why does it happen?
Thus, here are the three scenarios of market failure:
- Functional failure
- Role failure
- Outcome failure
Credits:
- Narrated by S...
This is chapter 10 within the mega-episode "What is a market?"
In a number of episodes in the past, I have talked so much about the significance of markets. In this episode, I plan the discuss the exact role a market plays in the economy.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
In the construct of a market, there are a few critical elements that play a crucial role. They are - Information, Currency, Value and Property Rights.
In this episode, I want to review these elements and the role they play in markets.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
In this episode, I want to review the functioning of markets through an example. The point is that if you understand markets well, you should be more comfortable interacting with them, trading in them.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
When we are on the subject of markets, it is important to understand that the word "market" may mean different things under different circumstances. In this episode I attempt to clarify that point.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
In this episode, I review various buckets of categories into which markets may be classified. I examine that through the following four perspectives:
- Based on products that are bought and sold
- Based on the currency that is used
- Based on the number and types of participants
- Based on whether its physical or non-physical
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
On Friday, an important economic data point was released for the US economy - PCE inflation data was reported mostly inline per expectation. PCE index is considered to be the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge. Thus, this datapoint holds tremendous significance for the macro-outlook, especially Fed’s interest rate policy outlook. In today’s episode we plan to review this latest datapoint and our interpretation of what it m...
In this episode we'll look at the system that contains a market and thus impacts the market. We call it the market system. It can encompass more than one market, and it impacts the market via changes to the connections between the markets, government and central bank interventions via policies, taxes, interest rates etc.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
In this episode we'll look at some examples of markets to get a better understanding of what markets are. Below are some of the examples:
- Farmer’s market
- Whole Foods Market
- Walmart Superstore
- Amazon.com
- Car Dealership
- Real Estate market
- LinkedIn & Monster
- Forex market
- Stock market
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
I this episode I review the definition of a market. It is a simple statement, but it captures the essence of a very important concept in our economy.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
With the intro done, and before jumping into the depth of the topic, I have a few questions for you. If you understand markets you will be able to answer these questions well. So, continue to listen in.
Credits:
- Narrated by Sid Barthakur
- Music by Alexi Action from Pixabay
This is the introduction to the next episode in which I answer the question - What is a market?
We begin our journey in the Roaring Twenties and go through the dark days of the Great Depression. Along that journey we trace the path of the stock market which went through a massive rally during the 1920's and then went through a major crash in 1929. This market crash would eventually lead to the Great Depression and set the conte...
In today's episode we'll deal with an important question, considering what is happening in the markets.
Today BTC crossed the price milestone of $57,000 USD/coin.
So, what I plan to explore is the question: Is Bitcoin a currency?
Throughout its recent history, Bitcoin has been a truly loved topic of conversation.
One of the resons behind this, is that fact that it has managed to polarize people - Some hate it with thei...
In this episode, we're going to cover the earnings report that apparently was the most important one for the street - NVIDA.
Yesterday, on Feb 21st, NAVDIA posted its Q4 and Full Fiscal 2024 financial results. The results were mind-boggling.
If anybody had any doubt about the progress on the first chapter of AI, all those doubts were put to rest.
NVDIA showed that demand for its chips, that are powering the AI revolution was no...
In this episode I plan to review the answer to this interesting question - What's the connection between inflation and immigration?
In the last 2 - 3 years the developed world has experienced very high inflation. And in the last couple of years, immigration has also been relatively high. Non only that, even during early 80's, there was a co-existence of high inflation and high immigration (per relative standard of that day ...
Today is Feb 20th, 2024. Canada reported inflation numbers earlier this morning. Here's a snapshot:
- Inflation MoM: 0.0/0.4
- Inflation YoY: 2.9/3.3
- Core Inflation MoM: 0.1
- Core Inflation YoY: 2.4
Overall, the 6-9 month trend for Inflation rate appears to be heading towards -0.1% mark, while the trend for Core Inflation appears to be heading towards the 0% mark.
This datapoint and the trend picture leads us...
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