Guests: Kevin O'Neill
Joey: The Up-and-Coming Economist
December 10, 2015
Kevin O’Neill and Fari Hamzei join the Chief to start off the show discussing oil, football, and monopolies. Then Stocks and Jocks is joined by a very special guest, Joey Gillespie, a young aspiring economist who has some tough questions for Fari and The Chief. Joey wants to know why they love trading, what they would do for the economy if they were president, and how long Patrick Kane’s hot streak will last. In the later hour Joey packs up for school and leaves the Chief with Fari and the new woman in Fari’s life, Alexa (the voice of Amazon’s new Echo home service technology) to discuss the fate of trend brands including Chipotle, Amazon, Netiflix, and Apple.
What a Downer
December 3, 2015
Kevin O’Neill makes his weekly Thursday appearance and discusses the massacre in San Bernadino, governmental waste and conference championship week in college football. Fari Hamzei of Hamzei Analytics talks markets, Federal Reserve and much more.
This Business Will Get Out of Control
November 24, 2015
The Chief and Matty Weber discuss the Russian plane going down in Syria, Donald Trump, the Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago and much more. Joel Elconin of Benzinga talks college football. Finally, Kevin O’Neill recaps the morning’s events.
ISIS Oil Economics
November 19, 2015
Author and Columbia College professor Eric Charles May joins the Chief at the start of the show to talk about the Cubs and the physical demands of professional baseball. Kevin O’Neill joins later in the hour for a discussion of ISIS and what the Chief calls “the economics of terrorism.” May and the Chief continue the discussion of ISIS into the later hour touching on how the terrorist organization is capable of recruiting young Americans. For the remainder of the show the two talk about the gentrification of Armitage Avenue in Lincoln Park, changes in the publishing industry, and question who in the FED really knows what they’re doing.
Fed Speak
November 12, 2015
Fari Hamzei of Hamzei Analytics is in-studio talking markets, the Federal Reserve and much more. Kevin O’Neill chimes in to discuss healthcare rates, the Missouri University situation and the College Football Playoff rankings.