Economize Me is sponsored by eToro, a social trading platform. Now you might be asking yourself, social what? Tune in as we talk to some of the popular investors on the eToro platform to hear about their experience trading on the app.  

What if we could take the rules of financial risk management and apply them to our everyday lives? This episode, we’re joined by Alison Schrager, an economist and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.  She’s also the co-founder of LifeCycle Finance Partners, a risk advisory firm. In her new book, An Economist Walks Into a Brothel, Schrager presents examples from horse racing and movie production to the sex industry and surfing to ultimately make the concepts of financial risk management...

I can’t really remember the last time I withdrew money from an ATM. Can you? This episode, we’re talking banks. What are banks? What is money? And is cryptocurrency about to disrupt the whole institution? We’re joined by Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science and Finn Brunton, author of Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency. 

Do you hate making decisions? Don’t worry you don’t have to decide right now. Decisions involve risk. Risk involves potential loss. And nobody likes losing. Meet the Status Quo Bias. Our guests today are Richard Shotton author of "The Choice Factory: 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy” and Professor Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less.  

Is social media a market force? What effect does social media have on us as consumers and on the markets as a whole? After all, we’re swiping, scrolling, liking and tweeting from the minute we wake up to the moment we go to sleep. Tune in as we talk to Emily Flippen from The Motley Fool and Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products. 

What does it take to lead a company that is worth hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars? We decided to try to find out. We’re joined this episode by Christa Quarles, ex-CEO of OpenTable; Vikas Kapoor, CEO of Mezocliq; Kevin Davis, ex-CEO of Man Financial; and Yoni Assia, CEO of etoro, to find out what the life of a CEO looks like.   

Google has been hit by over 8 billion euros in antitrust fines by the EU. But what is antitrust? Well, apparently, it’s controversial. So we’re joined by two professors of economics, one from each “side” of the antitrust debate. Peter Klein, Professor of Economics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas is here to present the free market approach. And Justus Haucap, ex-chairman of the German Monopoly Commission and Professor of Economics at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany, will tell us...

In light of the global situation, Economize Me is kicking off its first season with a special episode on the financial impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. We are joined by some of the leading voices in the business and financial world including former CEO of Man Financial Kevin Davis, acclaimed financial consultant Eric Tyson, CEO of eToro Yoni Assia and former CEO of OpenTable Christa Quarles. We will be taking a close look at how the virus is influencing the markets and most importantly,...

Whether you’re on the hunt for a job, a house or a new car, you will have to negotiate. For me, it was always an enigma. What do you ask for? How do you ask for it? When do you ask for it? Maybe you’re not even supposed to ask. Maybe you’re supposed to demand. In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Margaret Neale, author of Getting (More Of) What You Want: How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life. Margaret Neale is a professor...

Investment. It’s a scary concept full of risk, regret and possible ruin. But it’s not all dark and gloomy. With a lineup of all-star guests, we’re out to uncover the key components for smart investing. We’re joined by Eric Tyson, a financial consultant and author of the best selling Personal Finance for Dummies; Yoni Assia, CEO of the social trading platform eToro; Kevin Davis, ex-CEO of Man Financial; and Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial. 

What forces are at play in our relationship with our wallets (and our hair)? What exactly causes us to spend money? And how does that influence the way we behave? As a student of film and television, my acquaintance with economics was... non existent. But after 4 awful haircuts (one of which was free), I found myself asking: “Why did I act so irrationally?” In an attempt to understand my own behavior, I contacted Professor Barry Schwartz of the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. Professor...