Bubbles & Black Holes – A Conversation with Alex Dryden

A wide-ranging discussion on career paths, asset bubbles, Private Credit and risk-free rates. As an intro, Alex Dryden is a Doctoral Research Fellow at SOAS and the Founder of “Financial Fables” - an awesome weekly newsletter on Economics, Investing and Finance. Alex brings technical topics to life through storytelling. You really should be subscribed ⁠here.⁠

00:00 - Intro.

02:26 - PhD: Alex’s return to academia from banking.

07:57 - Bubbles: how are they form, why they burst and are we currently in one?

22:49 - Black Holes: what is happening in Private Credit?

36:52 - Risk-Free Rates: implications if government curves aren't risk-free?

54:54 - Closing.

…all that and more, in this month’s episode of Tracking Error.

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Enjoy!

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