Wall & Broadcast
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWall and Broadcast invites you inside the untold, little understood stories of Wall Street. With unparalleled access to industry insiders, and hosted by an ex-spy and a former boy band member turned finance experts, we deliver insightful interviews, hilarious asides, intriguing stories, and historical perspective on this seemingly untouchable industry that touches everybody.
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13. It's Turtles All the Way Down
August 09, 2017 00:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBThink you know what time it is? Right now? Even if you don’t, you probably assume the machines running our financial markets do, right? Time in the markets is routinely measured in milliseconds or microseconds and transactions occur on the nanosecond scale. Yet for all of this innovation and technology, the markets have a real problem when it comes to time. And this problem is costing the industry millions of dollars every single day. Join Wall & Broadcast as we explore time and the mar...
12. Confessions of a Wall Street Informant
July 25, 2017 23:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIn July of 2012, Guy Gentile, a self-described business maven with day-trading operations in the Bahamas and the U.S., was arrested while sitting on the tarmac of White Plains Airport in Westchester NY. Guy was given an ultimatum…either help the US government catch Wall Street insiders who had gone bad, or spend his days in the Federal lockup awaiting charges of wire fraud. Come along with Wall & Broadcast as Guy tells his story of Wall Street white-collar crime, betrayal, and revenge…
11. Regulation vs. Deregulation in the Age of Trump
July 10, 2017 16:00 - 35 minutes - 80.2 MBIf there’s one thing the election of President Donald J. Trump has taught us, it is to question everything we’ve historically assumed to be true. What if you had to guess someone’s political affiliation based solely on their stated views on market regulation? Do you think you’d be able to do it? We at Wall and Broadcast wanted to take a closer look at how people actually feel about regulating Wall Street, especially as the current administration champions a massive deregulatory wave. In our ...
10. The Trump Card: Social Media & Wall Street
February 09, 2017 22:30 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBSocial media is everywhere. Even if you wanted to, it seems you cannot escape its influence. This is just as true for the financial markets. Today’s investors and traders are looking for an edge, and the smart ones are turning to social media to gain that advantage. But it’s not in the way you might think. In this week’s episode, we introduce you to two professionals who are looking at social media in a whole new way. These pioneers are trying to figure out how to leverage the intelligence...
9: Credit 2.0: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
January 26, 2017 19:32 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBWhat is credit? Why does it exist? How do we decide who gets it? In episode 9 of the Wall & Broadcast we explore the evolution of the concept of credit and how we determine who is creditworthy. Many of us take advantage of credit every day without thinking twice – whether through the use of our American Express, Visa or CITGO cards, our mortgage or home equity loans. But what happens when, through no fault of our own, we do not have access to these financial tools? There are millions of Am...
8: The Love-Hate-Love Relationship Between Patrick Byrne, Wall Street and Blockchain
January 12, 2017 19:30 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBSometimes it’s hard to judge a person by what you read about them in the press. And with Patrick Byrne, the controversial CEO of Overstock.com, it’s especially hard, because he has a lot of haters. In episode 8 of the Wall & Broadcast, we try to cut through the noise and get to the heart of what drives Patrick Byrne. He’s on a quest to remake Wall Street. Why? Because he’s been burned by Wall Street in the past, and much like Charlie Shrem from Episodes 5 and 6 of our podcast, he believes in...
7: The Strange Relationship Between Seeking Profit and Doing Good
December 13, 2016 21:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBTo some in the business world and on Wall Street, the growing expectation that one must pair “doing good” with “doing business” – described by terms like “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) and “environmental social and corporate governance” (ESG) – feels like being told to eat more fiber. A firm’s leaders may genuinely care about social and environmental issues. They may be actively involved in philanthropic projects to address environmental and social problems. They may even acknowledg...
6: The Rebirth of Inmate 92164-054. . . Charlie Shrem (Part 2)
November 30, 2016 19:30 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis is the 2nd part of a two-part episode on Charlie Shrem, America’s first Bitcoin superstar. When we left Charlie at the end of Episode 1, he was just being confronted by joint FBI, DEA, IRS task force at JFK Airport in New York. Upon his arrival, he is arrested and detained by the federal authorities. Tune into the second part of this two-part episode to find out what happened to Charlie. Why was he detained? On what charges? We follow Charlie through the shock of these events and di...
5: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Bitcoin Giant, Charlie Shrem
November 15, 2016 17:30 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThere was a time; not so long ago, that Bitcoin was just an obscure little diversion for the hardest of the hard-core crypto geeks existing on the fringes of the internet. Out of those recesses rose a quiet young yeshiva student from Brooklyn who would seize upon a unique opportunity, using his own personal experiences and his love of computers to create one of the first successful retail Bitcoin enterprises. His name was Charlie Shrem, and by the time he was 21 years old he was a Bitcoin ...
4: Wall Street Through the Eyes of Hollywood
November 01, 2016 16:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBIf you’re anything like us here at Wall & Broadcast, you love movies about Wall Street. Whether it’s the sheer outright hilarity of Trading Places, the brutal ruthlessness of Margin Call, the gritty day to day grind of Boiler Room, or the mixture of greed, wealth and power of The Wolf of Wall Street, we can’t seem to get enough of what Hollywood is saying about our industry. But is Hollywood getting it right? Strap in for another episode of Wall & Broadcast where we try to find out if the...
3: Millennials vs. Banks
October 11, 2016 17:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBWe at Wall & Broadcast keep hearing stories about the millennial generation’s disdain for traditional banks. And there are lots of new finance apps out there, so they should be able to opt out of traditional banking no problem right? But are millennials truly opting out of traditional banking? Walk with us as we discover what it really means to live without a bank account in America. And what alternatives really exist right now for those living an unbanked life.
2: Currency at the Edges
September 27, 2016 14:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBMoney certainly doesn’t grow on trees but what would you do if ceased to exist? In episode 2 of Wall & Broadcast, we look inside a state penitentiary where the use of US currency is forbidden but a secret economic system has taken hold. And we visit a country where the official currency has failed to see how people respond when the money they’ve come to rely on becomes worthless. In the process we discover that, in addition to love, there is one thing that money still can’t buy...
1: Are the Markets Rigged?
September 13, 2016 18:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBThere’s an undercurrent in our mainstream culture today, a prevailing sense that our financial markets are rigged. This zeitgeist has existed very strongly since the crash of 2007/08. Some may know very little about how the markets operate and yet they tend to harbor at least a seed of doubt; ‘maybe the markets are rigged – I would believe it if they were.’ Others, who are more fluent in the language of the markets - for example, a hugely popular former presidential candidate, a best selling...
Welcome to Wall & Broadcast
July 25, 2016 14:41 - 3 minutes - 4.67 MBWall & Broadcast invites you inside the untold, little understood stories of Wall Street. With unparalleled access to industry insiders, and hosted by an ex-spy and a former boy band member turned finance experts, we deliver insightful interviews, hilarious asides, intriguing stories, and historical perspective on this seemingly untouchable industry that touches everybody.