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Frances Coppola joins Karl Fitzpatrick to discuss the recent collapse of cryptocurrency firm FTX, the need for regulation in the market and the future of cryptocurrency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/12183292?utm_source=youtube

Frances Coppola talks about "How to Land Your Helicopter" Department of Economics Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

How did it all go so wrong, so quickly? Less than a month ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was the golden boy of crypto, with a net worth in the $billions, and his exchange FTX was valued at $32bn. Now, FTX has a gaping hole in its balance sheet, thousands of people have lost their money, and Sam is facing personal bankruptcy and, potentially, fraud charges. The short answer is - it didn't. The hole in FTX's balance sheet has existed for a long time. We don't know exactly how long, but the size of the...

Frances Coppola, author of "The Case for People's QE," discusses her CoinDesk op-ed where she compares the current crypto meltdown to the Panic of 1907, a crisis that pre-dates the creation of the Fed.

At the Battle of Ideas last Saturday, a panel on "populism" spent an hour and a half discussing everything except economics. Sherelle Jacobs of the Telegraph called for the Tory party to replace what she called a "twisted morality of sacrifice and dependency" with the "Judaeo-Christian" values of thrift and personal responsibility. And when a brave audience member asked "shouldn't we be discussing economics?" Tom Slater of Spiked brushed him off and carried on talking about cultural issues....

On today's edition of "Boiler Room," Alfonso Peccatiello is joined by Frances Coppola to explain today's banking system and debunk the theory that money is "printed". Frances discusses the creation of money in the modern economy and how the money supply expands and contracts. We then explore the bank lending process, a bank's equity and what almost everyone gets wrong about bank reserves. Does government fiscal spending increase the money supply or just recycle it? Are...

Why did the Bank of England intervene in the gilt market this week? The answer that has been doing the rounds is that it was protecting the solvency of pension funds. But this doesn't make sense to me. The Bank doesn't have any mandate to prevent pension funds going bust. And anyway, the type of pension fund that got into trouble isn't at meaningful risk of insolvency. There was never any risk to people's pensions. I don't think the Bank was concerned about pension funds at all. I think it...

Crypto commentator Frances Coppola talks to Kathy Chu about why she thinks more crypto firms will collapse and how the crypto industry has become interconnected with traditional financial markets. Find her on Twitter at frances_coppola and read her blog at coppolacomment.com. Produced by truthdao.xyz.

Economist Frances Coppola struggles to find a positive in the mini-budget: 'The first thing we've seen is a pretty massive sell-off in the pound because the international market doesn't like our currency any more, they think it is going to inflate.' This video clip is from an LBC show presented by James O'Brien on 23/09/22

Economist Frances Coppola struggles to find a positive in the mini-budget: 'The first thing we've seen is a pretty massive sell-off in the pound because the international market doesn't like our currency any more, they think it is going to inflate.' This video clip is from an LBC show presented by James O'Brien on 23/09/22. #JamesOBrien #MiniBudget #LBC LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs. We let you join the conversation and hold politicians to account....