Booze, Booms & Busts
by Sam Volkering & Boaz Shoshan
Want to know about the finest, newest, most exciting...boutique beers to hit the shelves in the UK? Want the weirdest beer ranking system known to man? But also want some of the most astute, compelling and mind-altering views about the economy, finance and investing from a Scotsman in London and an Aussie in the West Midlands? Of course you do...And who said you never had too many podcasts in your day already!Booze, Booms and Busts gives you all the excitement and entertainment on beers, investing and the markets you never knew you needed until you knew you didn't want it but got it anyway, from Boaz Shoshan and Sam Volkering – find us on Twitter @boozeboomsbusts @federalexcess @samvolkering
Episodes
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #88 – Florida man and his AI girlfriend
How do you sit down when you have a gun stuffed down your pants? Does the Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) trump the pain of losing hard in crypto? And will your AI girl/boyfriend steal your banking details? Grab a beer and tune in as the boys answer these critical questions in the latest BBB!
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #87 – Boosting birth rates at BP
After a year in the Portuguese wilderness, Sam Volkering returns to the mic once more! Coming up this week: How many affairs at the office is too many, and why is the "average" at BP 1-3? The unending mystery of oil and the Middle East The Cantillon effect - the secret key to free real estate…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #86 – Is anyone still here?
It's been a long time since the last episode of #BBB... but the pub must remain open!While Sam Volkering is with us only in spirit this episode, Nickolai Hubble returns to the show as a co-host to discuss how the world over the past year. Are we witnessing the End of Net Zero?Why do populist...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #85 – A long forgotten journey
It's been seven hour and 15 days...oops sorry wrong podcast. It's been five weeks and two days since we took your love away, since we did a Booze, Booms & Busts. But we are back and oh boy! has there been a lot going on. From crypto "Red Notices" to tax cuts for the rich and famous to degen bond...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #84 – Defecting from Chinese Ping Pong
We're back live with Episode 84 of Booze, Booms and Busts. Here today to discuss the extraordinary autocratic moves of (former) Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, why defecting from your country during a Commonwealth Games could be a good idea and why the Dutch decided (on their own of...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #83 – Barron Trump and Chelsea Clinton's Purple Child
What happens if you merge a 6'7" Barron with a Clinton dynasty great hope? A purple child? Or the future of homeownership from millennials as the great boomer wealth transfer takes place? Why would you save in Istanbul when you can just "crypto"? And if Tom Cruise is so short, then why does Rishi...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #82 – Zipline out of No.10
Why is Elon doing Twitter like that? Why are airplanes about to fall out of the sky? How does one decide which bumbling fool is best to replace the bumbling fool? Why is Germany so fu****? How does this all play out in the market? As usual, a lot to cover, so little time, so many beers to consume...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #81 – NFT Hard Ons
We're back after an extended period away and we don't mess about getting straight into the conversation. NFTs, why does the world still have a hard on for NFTs? What makes Top Gun the best movie of all time? Iran? How does the world's thinnest watch represent a trend that continues to linger...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #80 – Godwin's law is Hitler's goon bag
Contrary to popular belief, we weren't cancelled...and we are BACK with everything Boozy, Boomy and Busty! From the increasingly likelihood of talking about Hitler to Goon bag at the races and chilly Aberdeen nights and even how a $60 billion market failure could end up as the best thing that…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #79 – Sending scam NFTs to Hitler
Episode 79 of Booze, Booms and Busts comes with a competition. Correctly identify a person in a clip we have and you go into the running to win a case of beer. Aside from giveaways, we discuss...Netflix and their crappy content, saying "thanks" to the bedroom ceiling, what it must be like to be...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #78 – The Castration of Bitcoin's Bull (by Benedict Cumberbatch)
When is a horse race not a horse race? When is it not a sport? If a horse loses its nuts, can it still race? Yes, but can it stud? No. So what happens if you forcibly remove the testicles from a bull? More specifically a bull, modelled on the Wall St. bull for a crowd of bitcoin bros? So much to...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #77 – Retrograding the Saturn Shake
Our irregular publishing schedule continues with Episode 77. When you look to the stars, what do you see? We see...confusion, but opportunity and ways to track, trace and make moves in the market. Astrology, dismiss it at your own peril, watch it at your own peril and think about all the people...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #76 – SPAC DAOs and Missile Infused Yachts
Due to scheduling and technical issues we're a little late with episode 76...but it's well worth the wait. Question, if you had a couple billion lying around would you, a) buy a missile infused megayacht from a Russian dictator, b) buy the Chelsea football club, c) dump it all into an anonoymous...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #75 – Cold War 2.0
Are we living in the 70s or is this history on repeat? Feels like there's some weirdly similar themes popping up now around energy independence, nuclear armourment, the threat of imminent invasion, space race, all on the backdrop of a commodities market trading like crypto. So. Much. Fun! There's…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #74 – Russia raises the UK's largest eyebrows
We're back with episode 74 as WAR kicks off in the Ukraine thanks to Vlad's army and their...aim...to...do what exactly? What is the end game there? How should we be viewing the actions of Russia? Is Ukraine as clean as the media might have you suspect? And while the world financially strangles...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #73 – Russia, Royals and Presidential Orders
We're back after a minor extended absence with episode 73, where we look at all tings market relat..... Actually to be honest there's very little market related this week. Why? Dunno really, but we just never managed to get there. Dragged down by royal scandal, Putin's watch collection and what...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #72 – NFT mania...hype or hope?
In the latest episode of Booze, Booms & Busts we explore the dystopian future of metaverses, who might use them, how they might use them and whether this is a sorry and sad state of affairs or really just an evolution the madness of mania sweeping across the world right now...whilst speaking…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #71 – $ARKK simps in Palantir hoodies
We're back for episode 71 of Booze, Booms & Busts where this week we actually talk about the markets with real insight into WTF is going on in tech, the infamous ARKK ETF, crypto, metaverses and "tomorrow's iBeer." Lots of ground to cover with the market in a spin, stocks and crypto getting...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #70 – The Novaxx Djokovic Episode
Episode 70 coming to you from the year 2022...or 2019 where the uber-elites have time travelled to live out their glory days. Either way, whatever multiverse you're in, this week is less about markets and more about the absurdity of our existence. Wanna know how absurd? Just cast your eye to the...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #69 – Drunkensober
It's our first episode for 2022 – and what better way to kick off the new year than with a quite sobering edition... Nah, it's not all bad news, there's a lot to be excited about like Melania's choice for Solana, who would make a great Satoshi, the impossible choices of authoritarian regime,...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #68 – Reboots, Meta-roots and 2020 loops
It's the final Booze, Booms and Busts for 2021. Or is it 2020? What day of the week is it again? Anyway, it is Hogmanay and it's time for a few brews with friends (yes that includes you) to chat about the good, bad, ugly and fashions that may or may not repeat in the decade. We promise we're not...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #67 – Robin Rugged
We've been away a while, not the Rona, but just cos we got sick (well Sam did at least), Boaz was away...and enough excuses...we're back! Back with "The Rona" with meme stocks, Robinhood's stock price. the Guinness challenge. locking down, John Unit, booze, Xmas, you name it we're all over it…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #66 – Six figures under
Do you eat meat? Should you eat meat? Should you eat beyond meat? Impossible food? Should you just drink beer? In an unexpectedly culinary episode we look at all these things and more such as, did Coffin Finance predict their own demise? Is Facebook to Meta a genius move or a disaster? We find…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #65 – Sell me Doge Sex and Cheap Doggys
You read that title right. What else did you expect? When we've had a unexpected break in schedule we only come back with a BANG, figuratively of course. But this week we're firing on all cylinders, talking inflation, the bullshit that is COP26, a great piece on the Aussie property market and…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #64 – SHIB why? INU what? Has Cheezburger?
This is gunna sound bad...so Hitler... It's a soundbite that shall reverberate around the podcast scene for some time. But seriously, why is Tesla a $1 trillion company? Why does this make Shiba Inu now the biggest "dog coin"? Can you sell me on the next big Inu? So much wow, so much beer... Join...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #63 – Getting NFT rekt on Antiques Roadshow
This week as bitcoin launches to all-time highs what i happening in the bitcoin world? Is it ETF mania, what is a futures ETF anyway? Also, how does this match up with gold, the demand for gold and is gold relevant in a digital gold world? We also look at getting rekt in digital card games, how...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #62 – Don't remit, satoshi all over your friends
We're on the verge of running out of everything. Steaks, milk...toys for Christmas. So if you believe the tabloids, better stock the f*** up for Christmas now! Or...instead of remitting over everyone, give the gift that keeps on giving...satoshi. We talk about how Bond is no good, reboots make us...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #61 – Play-to-Earn
Monday beers, how can this not be a good idea? Due to a pause in programming last week, we've shifted to Monday this week talking about everything from games to play and earn to supplement income, energy crisis in Lebanon and how far your EV can go to NFTs and jewellery on a screen around your...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #60 – XRP The Standard
Rektember is over! Uptober is here. Q4 LFG! But...do you remember that time in December when XRP was all the rage? The bros in the know felt remitting would grow and that XRP would be The Standard. In this week's Booze, Booms & Busts we cover everything from the standard, the week of jerry can...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #59 – Jerry can
It's Ryder Cup week! If you're into golf, this is a big a tournament that is out there. Team golf, is where it's at. If you're not into golf, what's wrong with you? Either way, we'll discuss America vs. Europe, why China is a master of illusion and how do you fight the FUD...all while sinking…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #58 – Winnie the Jinping or Winnie the Gold?
Ok, we're sorry. Maybe we crashed Solana after last week's episode. It's possible. But more likely that someone just sacrificed the wrong virgin. This week's in depth episode covers everything from rebooting blockchains to what's cooking between Australia, the UK and the US. Is China about to get…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #57 – Solana retina burns
Two episodes in a week! Whoa. Well, technical difficulties can taketh away one week, but the following week giveth back! Today we look at the results from our "woman who presses CTRL–P at Tether/The Fed" poll, what's wrong with Ethereum and why Solana is booming. We also put ESG in our sights,...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #56 – The Lady Who Pushes CTRL-P at Tether/The Fed
After a delay in last week's episode due to technical issues (Sam's fucked up screen) we're back MID-WEEK with a new Booze, Booms & Busts, talking HDDVD Porn, Jacuzzi tubs on Canary Wharf, the changing nature of Vauxhall, how attractive the ladies who push CTRL-P at Tether and the Fed are and…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #55 – Ronaldo's Indian Premier League
The deal of the century has just landed. No, it's not Ronaldo's return to Manchester United. It's investors getting access to the Bombay Stock Market in India...or at least what we hope for. With so much money flowing around, from Premier League mega-wages to IPL cash glory, the question becomes...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #54 – Shamu attacks market
We start with Shamu and China getting REKT working our way around to guys in gimp suits dancing for Elon and the depths of despair with OnlyFans. How did we get from there...to there? Well, tune in to find out more. Grab a couple of coldies/tinnies/brewskis and get your ear-holes ready for…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #53 – WTF Happened in 1971
It's a special episode. An episode that will commemorate a hugely important day (this Sunday). A Day that all historians and financial-types should recognise and drink to. You can find out what it's all about in today's episode. But we also talk about whether stealing $600 million in crypto is a...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #52 – The NFT Episode
CryptoPunks, CryptoKitties, Hirst, Renaissance artists, property, Magic: The Gathering, Parallel, Steve Jobs' job application...what does it all mean? How are NFTs reshaping our landscape questioning value, money, wealth? Is it all a bubble or a massive money laundering operation? Why are NFTs…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #51 – Absolutely nothing financial
It has only taken us 51 episodes to get to what may be a real turning point. Finally our FIRST EVER EPISODE where we barely talk about anything financial. in fact one may argue this entire episode is us just shooting the shit about things we would be talking about at the pub. Everything from…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #50 – Financial Ragnarok: Love & Thunder
We're back after a few weeks hiatus (Sam's wife had another kid so he gets a leave pass)! Time for beers and booms and busts, and busting today is ThorChain (what is ThorChain you ask? Well, listen to find out). Booming is the amount of money the US treasury has, which could lead Elon Musk to...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #49 – Cuban Missile Crisis
What happens when you cross a billionaire with experimental financial technology and FOMO? You get the Cuban Missile Crisis! Still no idea what we're talking about? Well tune in to this weeks Booze, Booms and Busts to find out why Boaz is bullish on rugs, Sam is bearish on remote control VWs and…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #48 – Cat protectors & Russian Goldigarchs
It's Friyay again and time for Episode 48 of Booze, Booms & Busts. In today's episode we discuss everything from the rise of platinum group metals to Elon's arse smoke, the second hand car market and how the world's odlest auction house is going virtual! Of course some quality brews from all over...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #47 – Finish him (the USD)! Fatality!
Name one move, based on a video game that was good. Let's help you out, Hitman (both of them), Mortal Kombat (both of them), Street Fighter, Mario Bros, Prince of Persia, Assasins Creed...Tomb Raider...any of them good? Nope. Maybe Tomb Raider, but clearly Boaz has a thing for Angelina Jolie.…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #46 – Bitcoin Crashes and Israel Smashes
After recovering from last week's huge episode, we're back with the OG crew...back to our old antics of talking about whatever pops into our mind on the markets, and even some more left-field stuff that arguably gets us wildly sidetracked. Excessive beer consumption is to blame. Today we talk...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #45 – The Price Effect
We finally convinced him to come on. So if you're easily offended or don't like having your views challenged, best sit this one out. We've got Tim Price from Price Value Partners with us this week to talk inflation, commodities, Asia (but don't mention China!) and how long a sexual innuendo can…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #44 – Elon Musk: Dogefather or Ultimate Jokester?
Episode 44 of Booze Booms & Busts, looking at the biggest most mind blowing finance news of the week...is Elon Musk about to dump Dogecoin live on Saturday Night Live revealing the greatest prank of all time? Or is he really the Doge Messiah? Of course we pick apart why these things are even...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #43 – Pet Rocks or Actual Rocks?
Gold vs. Bitcoin! The ultimate battle. The ultimate contest. But why must it be so? Gold has been "bad" but will it come good? Boaz is Bullish on it, should you be too? We look at the market of gold and bitcoin, gold vs. bitcoin and the gamification of everything. Why is Sam bullish on Paul Simon...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #42 – New China-Zealand & Yellen's Yen
After a week's abscence (due to Sam contracting NOT the WuFlu, we're back for Episode 42 where we discuss the how the nation state can find it's way into everything, even when they don't intend to, why New Zealand is ignoring crimes of humanity and how does Janet Yellen plan to steal the Yen? As...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #41 – Financial Mandarins & China's Bitcoin Weapon
In a Booze, Booms & Busts WORLD EXCLUSIVE.....we're in the same room together for our 41st episode. Hoorah. This means awkward eye to eye contact, the aura of each other's beer quaffing, and of course robust discussion of financial and market events over new beers! So much in episode 41 that you...
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #40 – Coinbase Stonks, Spartan Proposals and the Fattest Man in Finance
We're quadragenarians this week! Episode 40, feeling old, but our content is fresh as ever. Such as, who is the fattest man in global finance? Can you find a fatter one? How to not propose in a foreign country. And also when you list on the market, (Deliveroo, Coinbase for example) do you offer…
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Booze, Booms & Busts: Episode #39 – Property Boom: Are you ready?
We're live with Episode 39 and we've managed to wrangle in a special guest in one of the sharpest minds in the UK when it comes to property and economic cycles, Akhil Patel. Akhil's 18 year cycles should be gospel to investors and if you've never come across his work before, well, strap in…
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About this show
Want to know about the finest, newest, most exciting...boutique beers to hit the shelves in the UK? Want the weirdest beer ranking system known to man? But also want some of the most astute, compelling and mind-altering views about the economy, finance and investing from a Scotsman in London and an Aussie in the West Midlands? Of course you do...And who said you never had too many podcasts in your day already!Booze, Booms and Busts gives you all the excitement and entertainment on beers, investing and the markets you never knew you needed until you knew you didn't want it but got it anyway, from Boaz Shoshan and Sam Volkering – find us on Twitter @boozeboomsbusts @federalexcess @samvolkering
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