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The Plain Bagel — 132 episodes

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1

Welcome To The Plain Bagel

2

Trump's "Revenge Tax" On Investors Outside the US

3

AI Is Giving Financial Advice Now

4

No Deal For Canada - Now What?

5

Why Markets Care About Oil (And Why Low Prices Could Be a Problem)

6

The Great Depression - 5 Minute History Lesson

7

Plain Bagel QandA 6 | Duration, Convexity, and Craig's Filming for Free!

8

The Rise and Fall of Nortel Networks - 5 Minute History Lesson

9

Managed Solutions | Mutual Funds and More

10

What do Rising Interest Rates Mean?

11

The Canada-China Trade Deal

12

Should You Buy a House? (First Time Home Buyers)

13

Why Investors Love Dividends (And Why They Can Be Dangerous)

14

Stocks | How Equity Earns You Money

15

The Bitcoin Treasury "Infinite Money Glitch"

16

Managed Solutions | ETFs and Robo Advisors

17

The Sketchy Companies Paying YouTubers to Promote Their Stock

18

What Constitutes Market Manipulation? Featuring @LegalEagle

19

The SpaceX IPO Is Wild

20

Plain Bagel QandA 5 | Mostly Weed Stock Questions

21

Bonds | Using Debt to Invest

22

"Crash-Proof" Investments: How Safe Havens Performed in Our Recent Bear Market

23

Capitalization and Depreciation Explained

24

Risk - Understanding Investment Uncertainty

25

Why I Don't Do YouTube Full-Time

26

Behavioral Finance | Investor Irrationality

27

The Fundamentals | Why is Investing Important?

28

Covered Calls Explained - The Cost of Income

29

The COVID-19 Stock Market Correction - Let's Talk

30

100K Subscribers... Thank You! (Also Shirts!)

31

The IPO Process

32

Time to Come Clean (April Fools Video)

33

Canada's Ridiculous Trade Barriers...With Itself

34

What is Quantitative Easing?

35

Trump’s “Dumb” Trade War With Canada - What Happened, and What Now?

36

2023 Finance Rewind - AI and Bank Collapses

37

Let's Talk About the AI Bubble

38

Memestocks Won't Make You Rich (Probably)

39

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Prediction Markets and More

40

Plain Bagel QandA 2 | Income and Wolf Mugs

41

Is a Bear Market Coming?

42

Plain Bagel QandA 4 | P/E, QE, and Short-Term Needs

43

Why Central Banks Target 2% Inflation

44

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Part 9

45

Explaining Celebrity Explanations in The Big Short

46

How Short Selling Works

47

Prominent Short Seller Charged With Market Manipulation

48

Is the SandP 500 Too Concentrated?

49

Why People Are Freaking Out Over Bonds

50

Evergrande Ordered to Liquidate - What Now?

51

What Just Happened With GameStop?

52

Are Trump's Tariffs Working?

53

What are Futures?

54

Investing | 5 Steps for Getting Started

55

The Dangers of Bitcoin - My Thoughts

56

Trump's Tariffs Deemed Illegal - What Now?

57

Tariffs and Treasuries - The China-US Trade War

58

Cash Equivalents and Alternatives | Non Traditional Investments

59

The $6.4T Stock Drop - Why Is Everything Down?

60

Stock Multiples: How to Tell When a Stock is Cheap/Expensive

61

An AI Scammer Is Trying to Steal My Viewer's Money

62

High Frequency Trading and its Impact on Markets

63

Why Does Everyone Hate Private Equity?

64

A US Sovereign Wealth Fund - What, How, Why?

65

Prediction Markets Are Ruining the Finance Industry

66

How to Tell If a Stock/Company Can Weather a Downturn

67

Grocery Store Greedflation - Is Price Gouging Behind Higher Food Prices?

68

Rest in Peace…

69

The Plain Bagel Turns 1

70

Plain Bagel QandA 3 | Greek Debt and Robinhood App

71

Clearing Up the Canada Tariff Misinformation

72

How Diversification Works

73

What Just Happened With Chinese Stocks?

74

Canada's Controversial Capital Gains Tax Change

75

The Fake Petrodollar Story - No, Saudi Arabia Didn’t Ditch the Dollar

76

Dark Pools Explained - How Institutional Investors Utilize Off-Exchange Trading

77

Styles of Investing | Active, Passive, and More

78

What is the Yield Curve, and Why is it Flattening?

79

Plain Bagel QandA 10 | Why Deflation is "Bad," Shorting Stocks, and More

80

2024 Finance Rewind - The Year of Trump, AI and Crypto

81

The Problem With Robinhood’s Tokenized Stock Offering

82

I Interviewed The Prime Minister of Canada on Housing and the Economy

83

Thanks a Million (Channel Announcement)

84

Making a Synthetic Stock

85

Finance Movie Review: Barbarians at the Gate

86

Plain Bagel QandA 1 | Good Reads and Rolled Sleeves

87

Exciting Announcement

88

Plain Bagel QandA 8 | Extreme Questions on Technical Trading, Double Taxation, and Rebalancing

89

Do Rate Cuts ACTUALLY Send Stocks Higher?

90

The Venezuela Oil Grab - What it Means for Oil Markets (and Canada)

91

The Bitcoin Treasury Reckoning - Why People Are Blaming JPMorgan

92

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Holiday Special 2024

93

Before You Buy a Weed Stock - The Problems With Marijuana Companies

94

Plain Bagel QandA 9 | Robo Advisors, Valuation, and an Ugly Website for Research

95

Canada's Getting a Sovereign Wealth Fund

96

Taxes | Registered Accounts and Tax Efficiency

97

Private Credit Panic - Why Investors Are Rushing For the Exits

98

What Makes an Investment Speculative?

99

FTX’s 118% Refund Plan

100

Explaining The Bitcoin Spot ETF Situation

101

Clearing Up the Inflation Target Misinformation

102

The Active Vs Passive Investing Debate

103

What is a Preferred Share?

104

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Part 7

105

Investing Won't Make You Rich (Probably)

106

Waiting to Invest is Costing You... A Lot

107

Stock Market Corrections: Why Markets Stumble

108

The Cost of Share Dilution

109

The Cost of Alberta Separatism

110

5 Investment Jobs Explained (and what they pay)

111

What A Year...

112

Huge Announcement

113

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Bonus Edition

114

How Negative Interest Rates Work (And What They Would Mean for the Economy)

115

A Special Plain Bagel Episode (The Return of Bagel Buddies) | April Fools Video

116

The Grossman Stiglitz Paradox - Collaboration with Ben Felix

117

Bank Financial Advisors Are Giving Bad Advice

118

The Dot-Com Bubble - 5 Minute History Lesson

119

The 2025 Gold Rush - "Debasement Trade" or FOMO?

120

Fees | How Investments Cost You

121

Stock Indices and Index Fund Investing

122

Bagel Buddies Trailer (April Fools Video)

123

What To Do With Finfluencers?

124

Cash Flows Explained

125

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Naughty and Nice Edition

126

"The Biggest Trade Deal Ever" - The EU-US Agreement Explained

127

5 Tips for Preparing for the CFA Exams

128

The Index Fund/ETF Bubble - How Bad Is It Really?

129

The Risk the War in Iran Poses to the Global Economy

130

The Greek Debt Crisis - 5 Minute History Lesson

131

America's Crypto Regulation - What the Genius and Clarity Act Means For Markets

132

Stock Options Explained