Reuters: Felix Salmon
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Felix Salmon offers cheeky commentary on everything from global economic imbalances to food, wine and cycling.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoPutting a Price on Scoops - Felix TV | Felix Salmon says newspapers should charge for early access to breaking news. But will his idea corrupt journalism? GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram takes his proposal to task. (May 25, 2012) | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoStudy: Venture Capital Model is Broken - Felix TV | Investors in venture capital fair poorly while the firms make out like bandits, according to a major study by the Kauffman Foundation. Felix Salmon has a frank conversation with Diane Mulcahy, Director of Private Equity for the Kauffman Foundation. (May 24, 2012) | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoFACEBOOK IPO: The most important news event of all time - Felix TV | Facebook's IPO: Has Mark Zuckerberg reinvented life as we know it, or is he more important than that? (MaY 18, 2012) | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoJPMorgan: The real scandal - Felix TV | The trading loss is not the real outrage, it’s JPMorgan’s use of excess deposits to make trades instead of lending the money to businesses that need it, says Felix Salmon. (May 16, 2012) | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoWill a gold bar buy a case of beer? – Felix TV | Gold bugs claim gold is better than cash, so Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon took to the streets of New York City to try to buy something – anything – using one gram of gold. (April 27, 2012) | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoBRIC nations can’t organize, leaving U.S. in power - Felix TV | The vote electing U.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim as president of The World Bank shows America is still calling the shots in global politics, says Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon. He explains why Brazil, Russia, India and China, all rapidly growing nations, aren’t gaining more political power. (April 18, 2012) | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoPresident Barack Obama’s World Bank blunder – Felix TV | Jim Yong Kim and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are competing to become the new World Bank president. But the best candidate won’t win, says Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon. (April 12, 2012) | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoGroupon learns why going public sucks – Felix TV | Groupon's speedy initial public offering was a big mistake, says Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon. In the wake of an SEC investigation, accounting headaches and a plummeting stock price, Salmon gives four reasons Groupon should have waited to IPO. (April 10, 2012) | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoIn gold we trust? Not Felix Salmon – Felix TV | Gold: portfolio necessity or poor investment? Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon and the Economist’s Matthew Bishop, author of “In Gold We Trust?,” go head-to-head on gold’s value versus currencies, bonds and stocks. (April 5, 2012) | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoWhy you should never trust an art dealer - Felix TV | Art sellers have been losing out on millions of dollars recently because of this art dealer trick. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon reveals the secret. (April 2, 2012) | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoArt world seeing spots: Felix’s take on art investments - Felix TV | Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon targets the art world's latest spotty trend. Clue: what do paintings by Damien Hirst and Thomas Downing have in common? (March 28, 2012) | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Goldman Sachs Muppets song: Client or Muppet? - Felix TV | Two Goldman Sachs “clients” take a look at themselves after Greg Smith’s New York Times op-ed in this musical puppet number. A parody of the Oscar-winning song “Man or Muppet” rewritten by author and law professor Frank Partnoy. (March 26, 2012) | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoHow smart investors play the lottery - Felix TV | Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon looks at the positive investment return of a dollar and a dream, and why buying a Mega Millions ticket, or chancing it in other lottery drawings, makes you more sensible in the stock market. (March 20, 2012) | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoCredit default swaps trader Ben Heller quits trading CDS - Felix TV | Top CDS trader Ben Heller tells Reuters blogger Felix Salmon that credit default swaps are "fatally flawed." (March 19, 2012) | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoWould a Mitt Romney presidency be a boon for Wall Street? – Felix TV | Reuters blogger Felix Salmon and Noam Scheiber, author of "The Escape Artists" and senior editor at The New Republic, discuss what a Romney presidency might mean for the financial industry. (March 16, 2012) | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoiPad etching: Best swag from South by Southwest – Felix TV | Reuters blogger Felix Salmon found his hands-down favorite swag at the 2012 South by Southwest conference: iPad etching. See what Felix had permanently lasered on his iPad at SxSW and watch the etching process. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoSouth by Southwest taco showdown: Food trucks vs. restaurants - Felix TV | Reuters blogger Felix Salmon is all over Austin’s South by Southwest technology conference and for Felix, it’s all about the tacos. Why are Austin’s food trucks better than its restaurants? Felix wants your answers! | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoSouth by Southwest: Is CNN buying Mashable? - Felix TV | Breaking News from SXSW: Reuters blogger Felix Salmon has learned from an unnamed source that CNN will buy social media website Mashable for more than $200 million. The source says an announcement is expected for Tuesday. (March 12, 2012) | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoDebate: iTunes pricing a model for journalism? - Felix Salmon | Journalism start-ups, such as Matter, are causing a stir with their pay-as-you-go business models. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon and CUNY Fellow Stephen Morse duke it out over whether readers will pay per piece for long-form journalism. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoBanks now following art like stocks: Is Gerhard Richter an asset class? -- Felix TV | Citi Private Bank is now producing analyst reports on artists as it does for stocks. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon and Citi Private Bank Art Advisor Jonathan Binstock debate whether artists should be treated like stocks and if this will cheapen the art world. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoCredit-default swaps: Felix Salmon and Peter Eavis on why the EU is scared - Felix TV | Who wins and loses if credit-default swaps are triggered by a Greek default? Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon and the New York Times’ Peter Eavis debate why the European Union is afraid of credit-default swaps and wants them eliminated. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoOpen Table: Why don't diners reserve online? - Felix TV | The whole world is going digital, so why aren't restaurant-goers clicking to book a table? Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon visits a swank Manhattan restaurant with OpenTable CEO Matt Roberts to discuss why so many diners are still using the phone. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoBetterment, Vanguard or savings account: Which is best for you? - Felix TV | Betterment CEO Jon Stein defends the investment website's fees, services and advertising claims. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon examines which - Betterment, Vanguard or a savings account - works best for different types of investors. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoThe Occupy movement gets sophisticated - Felix TV | In an answer to critics who say the Occupy movement is unorganized and directionless, Occupy the SEC has formed. In a 325 page letter it outlines changes needed to the Volcker Rule. But, as Felix Salmon points out, even if those demands are met, they mean nothing if regulators fail to enforce changes. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoOccupy the SEC: Proprietary Trading from the Discount Window - Felix TV | In our second installment, Felix Salmon talks about proprietary trading and hedge funds with a few of the authors of Occupy the SEC's comment letter on the Volcker rule. | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
