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Comedian v Economist — 184 episodes

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1

The Actual End Of CVE

2

Tesla Law Suits, US Inflation, Aussie Interest Rates and Being Fake Busy

3

World Bank Worries, House Price Flurry, RAMS In Trouble and How Do You Use A Hammer?

4

NZ House Price Crash, Trump, Obesity and AI Worries

5

Japan Inflation Doom, Mortgage Gloom, A Free Market Company and Heavenly Doggies

6

Sexy Boomers, U.S. Downgrade and Blockbusters Bust.

7

Barbie, Bitcoin and Robot Horses

8

Liberal Losers, Economic Boom Or Bust and Premium Macca's.

9

Election, Shien Price Jumps, A Gold Rush and Workplace Apologies.

10

Trump dumps and pumps, Aussie property boom and a fed-up Fed

11

Liberty Day, Jobs, Liquor and Second Hand Teslas

12

BYD, Budget and Bonking

13

Consumer confidence is down, tariffs are up. Defence spending surges. No wonder anti-depressent usage is booming.

14

How Adam's TrackMyBrown Twitter Account Helped Kill Live Gambling Odds During The Footy

15

And the Oscar goes to...

16

3/4 Of American Have Prime Subs

17

Work from sleep? Must be dreaming.

18

Have we hit peak McDonalds?

19

Economy, when moon?

20

What's wrong with the magnificent 7?

21

Merry Christmas!

22

See You In 2025!

23

What’s propping up the ugly economy?

24

Will Canada's GST holiday work?

25

What 28% of people want for Christmas

26

World braces for Trumpflation

27

How to actually win an election

28

Is This Peak Panic For Households?

29

What is cheapflation?

30

Are you dry curious?

31

Why are chickens exploding in size?

32

Why did nobody spend their tax cuts?

33

$8 Coffees Are Coming

34

Are you safer in a big car?

35

Who shirt-fronted the economy? CVE are back!

36

Bye For Now

37

Will the ATMs run dry this Xmas?

38

One in three Gen-Zers stealing stuff. Boomers outraged.

39

Ctrl+Altman+Delete: a big shake-up in big-tech

40

$10K to NOT list on Airbnb? How will that help?

41

Why can’t Adam get a good price for his Aaron speakers on Gumtree?

42

Why are we suddenly locking in rate hikes next week?

43

Why is Walmart spying on Ozempic patients?

44

Prada to design spacesuits, while Birkenstonk flops

45

Gold bars on sale at supermarkets – Sign of the End Times?

46

Why is black market tobacco booming?

47

How shoplifting got so bad its ‘organised looting’

48

Billionaire wants Aussies to feel the pain! Why??

49

Did Albo miss the memo on China?

50

We're back. Wtf happened to inflation?!?

51

How the Macro-ratchet is keeping you poor

52

Duck markets, burnout economies and making sense of greedflation

53

If you’re under 55, you’re getting shafted

54

Should airlines be fined for cancelled flights?

55

Nvidia and AI: beginning of a boom or a baby of a bubble?

56

Binance takes a double-blow. Can crypto survive?

57

Is the debt ceiling the black swan to end it all?

58

50% of US banks are underwater. How does that end well?

59

Cup Noodle sales are booming and why that’s bad news

60

Fox News eats humble pie. Will its business model change?

61

How is immigration affecting the rental market?

62

Should I buy a house before or after the bank run?

63

South Korea has plans for a 69-hour work week. No, srsly.

64

More bank chaos. Is everything really “fine”?

65

Three US banks go bust. Ruh-roh.

66

On the fast track to floppy-town: What’s happened to the Aussie economy?

67

Mrs Mac's goes bust while Supermarkets crush it

68

"The buffers are breached on half our loan book" - What is Westpac worried about?

69

The brutal numbers behind the AI job apocalypse

70

What's left of 'The Chalmers Doctrine' if you take out the boring bits?

71

Dr Doom vs Mr Sunshine - what's instore for 2023?

72

Are we bullish or bearish for 2023?

73

The 5 stupidest arguments against a gas price cap

74

Why is Black Friday 'Black'?

75

How do soccer matches affect market liquidity?

76

Inside the biggest corporate deal of the year

77

Bonus Ep: Is the FTX collapse just the beginning?

78

Why anti-piracy ads just make more pirates

79

Toyota drops smart keys. When will supply chain disruptions end?

80

Space ads become economically viable, and other disasters.

81

"Just hours from collapse" - Trussonomics takes UK to the brink

82

Markets pummel UK's "bad fart" mini-budget

83

Is the sub-prime monster back?

84

What happens if we freeze rents?

85

A third of ASX companies are Zombies! Eat your brains!

86

The world's first sneaker Ponzi scheme

87

How to hedge against social collapse

88

What if we all just refuse to pay for electricity?

89

Quiet Quitting: How Covid changed the jobs market

90

No more bears in there? Is the bear market done already?

91

ASX Wrap Up | Adam, Thomas, Bryce & Ren compare notes

92

Why is Biden putting the boot into Bezos?

93

Why are Chinese hackers trying to take down Aussie miners?

94

What does a soft landing even look like?

95

How to not get mauled in a bear market

96

Is the RBA playing mind-games with markets?

97

Lithium market meltdown: is the future cancelled?

98

Electricity prices to triple? That escalated quickly.

99

Four trends that just disrupted two-party politics

100

Terra crashes and burns. Global economy next?

101

How much rate hike pain can Aussies handle?

102

Inflation! Are home buyers about to get sucker punched?

103

"Dude, where's my luggage?" Why busy airports are here to stay.

104

Introducing The Dive: Will I ride in a self-driving car this year?

105

How did Aussie start-ups become a massive magnet for cash?

106

The yield curve goes whoopsie. Should you be worried?

107

Comedian V Economist V Chaser

108

Is FMG the new Tesla?

109

Srsly tho, what happened to the price of pies?

110

How did the world debank Russia?

111

When it rains it pours: tallying the East Coast Floods

112

Counting the cost of the war in Ukraine

113

Will a Credit Quality Death Spiral kill BNPL?

114

What will "The Great Reshuffle" mean for you?

115

Is Bitcoin the next sub-prime?

116

Bonus: Let the games begin! CVE takes on the ASX

117

Is that the sound of a SuperBubble bursting?

118

Summer Special: The Weaponisation of Confusion Pt II

119

Summer Special: The Weaponisation of Confusion Pt I

120

Summer Special: Is economics fundamentally broken? Pt II

121

Summer Special: Is economics fundamentally broken? Pt I

122

Summer Special: The weird economics of the Monopoly Boardgame

123

Summer Special: Thomas' Origin Story P2

124

Summer Special: Thomas' Origin Story P1

125

2021 - WTF was that about?

126

NZ hikes rates. Is Australia next?

127

Can markets front-run the govt on climate?

128

The Coffee Crisis of 2022?

129

Can a Billionaire Solve World Hunger?

130

Weaponising Corporate Power in the Pacific...

131

Why is ASIC trolling Pump and Dump telegram groups?

132

Can "explosive immigration" jump-start the economy?

133

What's the most effective mind-hack Thomas knows?

134

Global energy crisis, Pandora Papers... what's next?!

135

CVE has gone camping...

136

Could the UK Petrol Crisis happen here?

137

Will Evergrande crash the world economy?

138

Why is El Salvador hodling Bitcoin?

139

Why are builders going bust into the boom?

140

What does the Doherty Report actually say?

141

Is this how to play the move to online retail?

142

Has lockdown rocked Business Confidence?

143

Robinhood - the best and worst IPO in history

144

Super Is Not A Joke | The Big Picture

145

The Afterpay payday and and three theories on what it means...

146

This is Super Important | Welcome to Super Saturdays

147

There was only one profitable Olympics, ever...

148

Vinyl market spins out of control. Should central bankers be worried?

149

Why is the RBA printing more money than you think?

150

Why did Sydney Airport take off? ... and much more...

151

Could the Port of Darwin be Seized? And more...

152

The Awkward Secret Hiding in the Jobs Data

153

How on earth did Australia hang on to its AAA? … and much more.

154

Why did Markets Reject the Reject Shop?

155

Biden Buries Trickle Down Economics

156

How Kogan's Covid Trade Went Pear-shaped

157

Budget: Pulled Pork or Paradigm Shift?

158

Does a Budget Lockup beat a Covid Lockdown?

159

Dr Doom Says Buy Commodities

160

Can The Most Powerful Woman in the World Save Capitalism?

161

The View from Money-Town

162

The Weaponisation of Freedom

163

Commodity Supercycle or SuperHype?

164

How one boat stopped the economy

165

Why can’t you give everyone a million bucks when Jobkeeper ends?

166

WTF is a NFT and can I make money off them?

167

Can your stonks handle inflation?

168

WTF are Bond Yields and what did they do to my stonks?!?

169

Boomtown! 10 Reasons the economy is going to boom.

170

Bonus Episode: Facebook Defriends Australia. What’s up with that?

171

RBA to drop another $100bn?!? Why?

172

Google Search to Leave Australia?!?!

173

Gamestop… madness or method?

174

The 5 Mega-trends of 2021

175

The Political Economy of Stacks of Cash

176

The dawn of a new economic paradigm?

177

What is Money? No, srsly.

178

Is Property Different?

179

What Does it All Mean for Share Prices?

180

What is the RBA’s trip anyway?

181

Hitting economists with the measuring stick...

182

Understanding the Economics Dashboard... or exactly what data is important?

183

Let's start at the beginning... What exactly is the economy?

184

What is Comedian V Economist all about?