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me. Happy to be here. So we're here to talk about your new book on the history and as well as

analysis of bubbles. That's right. Yeah. And it's a great time to be doing it because everyone is wondering whether AI is a bubble.

Of course.

Whether crypto is a bubble. And if so, when these bubbles pop, what will the impact be on society?

If and when, right? So let's table that for now because I know you have a lot to say about those

subjects and a lot of analysis to bring based on the history of bubbles and what patterns you've noticed in the historical data, which is a really useful perspective to bring on it rather than just shooting from the hip, which I think is what a lot of people are doing. But before we get all to that, get to all that, just tell my listeners

a bit about who you are, what your career trajectory has been, and how it's led you to this interest in financial bubbles. Yeah, sure. Happy to do that. So let me start here. If you'd ask me when I was like 15, 16, what do you want to be when you grow up? I think I always said I wanted to be an investment banker. I was growing up in Toronto. My family had moved from East Africa,

from Kenya, where I was born.

And I was living in Toronto at the time and just loved math and loved reading the Wall Street

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