For one of our more recent interviews on Real Vision Crypto, Senior Crypto Editor Ash Bennington had the pleasure to host Mance Harmon, CEO and Co-founder of distributed ledger platform Hedera Hashgraph.

Global Macro Investor Founder and Real Vision Group CEO Raoul Pal shared his personal thoughts on the massive sell-off in crypto that peaked on May 23rd, when Bitcoin slid all the way down to the low $30,000s and Ethereum fell under the $2,000 price mark.

Bitcoin is a decentralized internet protocol, a non correlated, asymmetric investment opportunity, considered by many to be the investment opportunity of a generation. Whether that claim is realised or not, it should be something you should want to understand.

In this list, TIP breaks down top finance podcasts, covering all types of finance, from personal finance, to corporate finance, and more.

Silvergate CEO Alan Lane shares his insights on the importance of stablecoins, how they are regulated and what they can do to improve the financial ecosystem.

Marc Cohodes of Alder Lane Farm pulls no punches as he diagnoses the true culprits behind the exponential volatility in stocks such as GameStop: extreme leverage and the hedge funds who use it in order to juice returns. Cohodes argues that hedge funds like Point72 and Melvin Capital are creating significant systemic risk for all market participants.

Dan Zwirn, CEO and CIO of Arena Investors, returns to Real Vision to provide a strategic update on the world of credit. In this interview with Real Vision’s managing editor, Ed Harrison, Zwirn explains how, in a world of suppressed interested rates by monetary authorities such as the Federal Reserve, companies that are effectively underwater nevertheless manage to secure financing at attractive rates. Harrison and Zwirn discuss this phenomenon of “liquidity without solvency” in depth, comparing the ongoing fervor in AMC Entertainment Holdings to Hertz last summer.

We looked across financial markets to bring you a compilation of the wildest happenings during December 2020 & the first half of January 2021.

A fund centered on Iranian equities may seem frivolous to some. Who wants to invest in a country that has been devastated by sanctions for decades and cut off from the rest of the global?