Tag: corporate debt

Episode 8: The Circle of Life…and Death: The Business Cycle

For centuries, economies across the globe have had booms and they’ve had busts. As we all know, the booms are a good time and the busts, well, not so good of a time. But is this normal? Should economies have a business cycle? In this episode of Breaking Bad Advice, Isaac and Joel take a dive into the business cycle as we know it today and discuss the implications of an overly aggressive Federal Reserve, as well as a look at where we are in today’s “business cycle”.

Winning The Zombie War

Fear and greed are powerful motivators – some say the most powerful. In his book, World War Z, Max Brooks argues that fear is simply the other side of greed: the fear of missing out. Or, as our acronym-loving generation call it now: FOMO. Is Brooks right? Is our motivation always fear or the fear of missing out? Are these our most “primal” emotions? Often. Maybe even almost always. But always? Not necessarily. To illustrate, I’d like to talk about zombies. The corporate kind.

The Coronavirus: A danger to fragile people… and fragile economies, too.

Fragile economies are incredibly vulnerable to external shocks. When an economy has very little savings, massive amounts of debt, and asset price bubbles everywhere, it doesn’t take much to plunge into a recession. The Coronavirus, as it turns out, isn’t just especially dangerous to fragile people. It’s especially dangerous to our fragile economy as well.