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Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced Alex Merced Podcasts
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Alex Merced focuses on helping you understand concepts in Economics, Finance and Crypto so you can make better decisions and understand the world around you. Follow Alex Merced on twitter @alexmerced.
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8 – Explaining the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
Alex Merced discusses what happened with Silicon Valley Bank
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7 – The Process of Buying and Home and Mortgage Rates
Alex Merced talks about his experience buying a home and knowledge that may be useful for potential home buyers.
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6 – Understanding the Inverse Relationships between Rates and Prices
Alex Merced helps explain the nature of why prices of everything drops when rates are rising. tl:dr Raising rates is a sign of higher perceived risk from either capital shortage or an unsafe econ environment, so prices adjust downwards to make economic transactions more worth the risk. Lower rates are the exact opposite, prices go […]
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5 – Understanding the Tech Layoffs
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4 – Interest Rates and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Alex Merced discusses interest rates
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3 – Price Gouging, Surpluses and Shortages
Alex Merced talks about shortages, surpluses and how price gouging can play an important role in economics.