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Shawn O'Malley and Daniel Mahncke explore Grab Holdings (ticker: GRAB). In this episode, you'll learn how Grab was able to quickly grow across eight countries in Southeast Asia, and what local adaptations they made to outmaneuver Uber, which eventually ceded its entire market sha ...  Show more

Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O'Malley take a deep dive into Wix.com — the Israeli website-building platform whose investment case now turns on two of the most debated questions in the stock today: whether the generative-AI wave that lets anyone spin up a site from a text prompt is th ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 01:30 - What conventional monetary policy is and what are the main tools the Fed uses to achieve its two part mandate. 01:30 - What unconventional monetary policy is and why central banks use these tools. 09:26 - What is quantitative easing (QE) and ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 03:50 - What made Shinobu want to branch out on her own despite doing so well in the corporate world as a financial advisor? 05:51 - What made Shinobu want to write another book about money and what guided her to make it different than the rest? 08: ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 09:18 - Understanding the basics of valuations and how to interpret price multiples. 17:00 - What the Shiller P/E (CAPE) ratio is, and why it is telling us future returns are expected to be low going forward. 25:46 - What Lance thinks are some catal ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 03:34 - Why David believes we are in the biggest financial bubble of all time and how did we get to this point? 05:57 - Why the Fed’s use of Modern Monetary Theory, Quantitative Easing (QE) and negative real yields have been large contributors to Bu ...  Show more