Financial bubbles, crashes and crises

What is money and how is money created? Together with Arne Kloster from the Norwegian central bank we answer these and related questions.Bankplassen Blog:https://bankplassen.norges-bank.no/2019/01/04/hvordan-skapes-penger/

Banking is risky business. What do banks do to to handle the risks they face? And have they become any better at handling these risks in recent years? Our guest today is Roar Hoff, an experienced banker and risk management expert. 

Why do we have central banks and how have they developed historically? Today’s guest is financial historian Lars Fredrik Øksendal.

There are many different theories about why financial crises happen. In this episode we discuss some of these theories together with our guest, Beniamino Callegari. What are the main propositions of the theories and how useful are they in understanding the causes of financial bubbles, crashes and crises? 

In this episode we discuss the main ideas as well as the usefulness of Austrian economic theory and monetarism in understanding financial crises. Our guest is liberal economist, writer and member of The Mont Pellerin Society, Lars Peder Nordbakken,  

In this episode I have invited back Beniamino Callegari to talk about the major financial crisis erupting in the US in 2007 and spreading to large parts of the globe – the often-called Great Recession. We discuss how well various theories of financial crises are at explaining the crisis and Beniamino also provides a broader historical view of the crises.