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Is America Closing the Door on Global Talent?
Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, universities, and foreign governments. In this video, we unpack the legal, economic, and political fallout — from panics at airports to diplomatic blowback, from the Hyundai factory raid to the eerie silence of Silicon Valley CEOs. Is this the end of skilled immigration as we know it? Or just another chapter in America’s long-running immigration drama?

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What the...

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Financial Options Pricing History. Today we will learn How do Investors Price Options?
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Up to now we have looked at how options work and how they can be combined. We have mentioned options premium and how it is made up of time value and intrinsic value. In this video we will look at...

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For decades, a university degree was the golden ticket to a stable career and upward mobility. That promise is breaking down. Graduate unemployment is rising, entry-level jobs are disappearing, and automation is hollowing out the first rung of the corporate ladder.

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In todays video we learn about Value at Risk (VaR) and how is it calculated?
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What Is Value at Risk (VaR)?
Value at risk (VaR) is a calculation that aims to quantify the level of financial risk within a firm, portfolio or position over a specific time frame. This metric is most commonly used by investment and commercial banks to determine the extent and occurrence ratio of potential losses in their institutional portfolios.

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What are Financial Options?
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What are Financial Options?
Options are a financial derivative sold by an option writer or seller to an option buyer. They are typically purchased through a broker. The contract gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy (call option) or sell (put option) the underlying asset at an agreed-upon price during a certain period of time or on a specific date. The...

Today we learn about what a warrant is in finance and what a warrant is in debt.

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In finance, a warrant is a security that gives the owner the right but not the obligation to buy the underlying stock of the issuing company...

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Javier Milei has been in office for one year having taken over an economy on the brink of collapse. Milei managed to cut the monthly inflation rate from 26 per cent before he took office to 2.7 per cent in October. The Argentine peso has strengthened significantly against the black-market dollar over the past six months and Argentina’s sovereign bond prices have roughly tripled.

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In todays video we learn about Credit Default Swaps - Credit Derivatives.

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What is a Credit Default Swap?
a financial contract whereby a buyer of corporate or sovereign debt in the form of bonds attempts to eliminate possible loss arising from default by the issuer of the bonds. This is achieved...

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In this video, we explore how China’s dominance in rare earth elements has become a powerful geopolitical tool—and why the United States is struggling to catch up. From the Mountain Pass mine in California to Apple’s $500 million recycling push, we unpack the strategic importance of rare earths in everything from electric vehicles and smartphones to fiber optics and missile systems.
We also look at the recent Trump–Xi summi...

What is a Strangle? Options Trading Strategy - Options Combinations

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What is a Strangle?
A strangle is an options strategy where the investor holds a position in both a call and put with different strike prices, but with the same expiration date and underlying asset. This option strategy is profitable only...

In todays class we learn about what a volatility swap is.

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What is a Volatility Swap?
A volatility swap is a forward contract with a payoff based on the realized volatility of the underlying asset. Volatility swaps settle in cash based on the difference between the realized volatility and the volatility...

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What is a Straddle? Options Trading Strategy - Options Combinations

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An options straddle involves buying a call and put with same strike price and expiration date. If the stock price is close to the strike price at expiration of the options, the straddle leads to a loss. However, if there is a...

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What is a Butterfly Spread? - Options Trading Strategies Explained

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What is a Butterfly Spread?
A butterfly spread is an option strategy that combines bull and bear spreads. Butterfly spreads use four option contracts with the same expiration but three different strike prices. The trader sells two option contracts at the...

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One problem with using financial futures contracts to hedge a portfolio of assets, is that a perfect futures contract may not exist. Thus a perfect hedge cannot be achieved.

An example would be, if an airline company executive wished to hedge the company's exposure to jet fuel prices, and found that there...

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On Monday, over a trillion dollars was wiped off the US stock market due to the appearance of a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek.

The release of a new reasoning model, known as R1, led investors to question US dominance in tech, their expectations around future AI capex while also raising the prospect that China might beat Silicon Valley at its own game.

The new DeepSeek model...

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Todays class is all about investment asset classes. We examine the different types of investment an investor can put their savings in and try to work out the expected return of these asset classes, the drivers of these returns, and why an investor might be attracted to these different investments. We learn about portfolio construction and diversification.

The asset classes we discuss are, fixed income, equities and hybrid instruments like preferred stock and convertible bonds. We learn about real estate or property...

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Saudi Arabia's Neom megaprojects are running into major financial problems according to The Wall Street Journal.

After more than $50 billion dollars has been spent the fantasy city has collided with reality.

Costs have soared, delays are constant, and the capital expenditure estimates to complete the projects by 2080 have ballooned to $8.8 trillion dollars, which is over 25 times the kingdom's annual budget.

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Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, its economy has surpassed most expectations. Last year, Russia’s economy grew more than the United States and Europe and on top of that Russian unemployment is at a record low. What is causing this growth and how are wartime economies different?

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Two companies collapsed last month. One sold used cars, the other distributed brake pads and spark plugs. Both issued debt rated AAA. Now their bonds are trading at cents on the dollar—and Wall Street is pretending not to notice.
In this video, we dig into down the bankruptcies of Tricolor Holdings and First Brands Group to understand what they reveal about private credit, and why supposedly safe securities are starting to look a...

What is a Put Spread? - Options Trading Strategies

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What is an Options Put Spread?
A put spread is an option spread strategy that involves buying and selling an equal number of put options simultaneously. Unlike the put buying strategy in which the profit potential is unlimited, the maximum profit generated...

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Tesla’s sales are falling across the globe—from the UK to China to California. So why did the board just hand Elon Musk a $29 billion pay package? In this video, we break down the contradictions at the heart of Tesla’s current moment: collapsing demand, the Cybertruck debacle, the robotaxi fantasy, and a boardroom that seems more loyal to Musk than to shareholders.

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While the world is distracted by global conflict, a panic is building in the private credit market. In this video, we go inside the opaque world of Private Credit - examine the "Golden Age" of lending that is rapidly turning into a slow-motion crisis. From the "volatility laundering" tricks used by managers to hide billion-dollar losses to the "Exit Trap" currently catching retail investors in BD...

What is an options call spread?

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What is a Call Spread?

What is a Bull Call Spread?
A bull call spread is an options strategy used when a trader is betting that a stock will have a limited increase in its price. The spread involves buying call options at...

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Jane Street, a prominent quantitative trading firm, has been at the center of controversy in India regarding its options trading activities. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), have accused Jane Street of market manipulation and temporarily banned the firm from accessing the Indian securities market and are seeking to recover substantial profits, allegedly earned through these activities.

The Indian regulators actions against Jane Street have sparked debate within the financial industry about the nature of sophisticated trading strategies and the potential for market manipulation.

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This summer, a bizarre new trend hit Wall Street: Chinese meme stocks. Promoted in WhatsApp groups, Reddit threads, and even under fake YouTube comments, these obscure Chinese companies soared — and then collapsed — wiping out billions in investor savings. In this video, we explore how Regencell Biosciences briefly reached a $38 billion valuation selling what looks suspiciously like curry ingredients as medicine, we try to understand why the F...

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There is a long history of regulation and deregulation where big scandals provide the catalyst for new rules, and then the realization that the rules are possibly excessive has caused them to be rolled back.

In finance the 1933 Glass-Steagall provisions came in the wake of the 1929 Crash. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was a reaction to the Enron and WorldCom scandals. Dodd-Frank was enacted in 2010 after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Derivatives are specific types of instruments that derive their value over time from the performance of an underlying asset: eg equities, bonds, commodities.
A derivative is traded between two parties – who are referred to as the counterparties. These counterparties are subject to a pre-agreed set of terms and conditions that determine their rights an...

In todays video we learn about how Swap participants benefit from the law of comparative advantage.

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Swaps and Comparative Advantage

In economics, the law of absolute advantage stated that countries should specialize in what they are best or most efficient at producing, and then exchange these goods with other countries...

In today's video we learn all about the Monte Carlo Method in Finance.

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What is the Monte Carlo Method?

Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain...

Should companies use derivatives to hedge? How and why do companies hedge?

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Should Companies Use Derivatives to Hedge?

Over the last several decades, the use of derivatives as a tool to mitigate and control risk has expanded significantly. Despite well-publicized abuses involving derivatives, the efficacy of derivatives as a means...

In todays video we learn what are asset backed securities, what are credit card receivables and what is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)?

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What is an Asset-Backed Security (ABS)?
An asset-backed security (ABS) is a financial security collateralized by a pool of assets such as loans, leases, credit card debt, royalties...

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The recent Greenland crisis at Davos 2026 has shattered transatlantic trust, forcing Europe to confront a terrifying new reality: the need for strategic autonomy from the United States. Faced with what it vi...

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Yesterday SpaceX became the largest company ever to go public, in an IPO that values Elon Musk's rocket-and-AI conglomerate at $1.78 trillion. But SpaceX is just the first. Anthropic and OpenAI have both filed to go public, Alphabet has just raised a record $85 billion in new stock, and Meta is reportedly considering doing the same. Goldman Sachs expects as much as $675 billion of new equity to hit the market this year.

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This week, SpaceX filed the prospectus for what is expected to be the largest IPO in history. The document is extraordinary — part financial disclosure, part science fiction, and part governance structure that a corporate law professor has described as offering shareholders "no votes, no sales, and no suits." We look at the numbers, the products that don't yet exist, the AI business that SpaceX's own engineers won't use, the related-party transactions, the compensation package ti...

Today we will learn about put call parity and how it works,

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What is Put-Call Parity
Put-call parity is a no arbitrage principle that specifies the relationship between the price of European put options and European call options, with the same underlying asset, strike price and expiration date. Put-call parity states...