This week we discuss some exciting news around the state of vaccinations across the world. We are slowly but surely getting back to a normal future. We see Biden starting to deliver on his promises by raising tax mostly for the rich. Huge acquisition in the Canadian telecommunications market with Rogers acquiring Shaw for $26 billion while NFL is assignment new exclusive broadcasting rights to a familiar company - Amazon. We cap off the episode talking about some of the practical and potentially unethical implications of instating a digital vaccine passport. Are certifications of vaccinations inevitable as we move towards a different future? Let us know what you think in the comments below. Follow Jonny on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Follow Brady on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

This is another special edition of Thought Bubble - we spend the entire episode breaking down what non-fungible tokens (NFT's) are. We brought on a special guest as well, a name that might be familiar to OG listeners: Kaito Cunningham. Kaito has been on the podcast before talking about his entrepreneurial adventures but today he's back to discuss the topics of NFT's with us. Learn more about what NBA Top Shot is, the premise of how NFT's work and also potential future applications of blockchain and NFT's. We even discuss the possibility for startups raising funds through issuing various forms of NFT's instead of giving up equity. You can keep up with what Kaito is doing through his Twitter and Blog site: Kaito's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cunninghamkaito Kaito's Website: https://www.kaito.so/ Follow Brady and Jonny: Jonny: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Brady: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

Welcome back to Thought Bubble where Brady and Jonny break down what's happening around the world in Politics/Global News, Finance and have some friendly debates. This week we talked about Texas lifting all COVID restrictions by March 10th and an Israel study showing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is more effective in preventing transmission then we thought it would. We chat about the implications behind the unprecedented battle of Australia vs. Facebook and Google and what that might mean for our digital future. We cap off the episode briefly having a discussion around the new hot topic: non-fungible tokens (NFT's). You can follow us on Instagram here: Jonny: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Brady: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

Welcome back to another week of Thought Bubble with Brady and Jonny! This week we talked about the implication of Uber's biggest competitor in China - Didi, Robinhood hearing in front of congress and if anything came out of that hearing. We also discussed the Texas power grid shutdown due to a major winter storm and how it happened in Texas and not anywhere else. For the debate topic this week, we chatted about the education sector, and questioned the needs and uses of professional schools in our society and whether or not self-studied professions could be viable across all occupations. If you like the podcast, hit the follow button and get weekly episode updates! Follow Brady on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/ Follow Jonny on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/

In this episode, we spend some time quickly going over Trump and his impeachment trial results due to his role in inciting the Capitol attack, interesting stats for Black History Month and Bumble's IPO. Most of the episode is spent briefly explaining Bitcoin and running over some of our opinions on advantages, disadvantages and use cases of bitcoin in the future.  Follow Jonny on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Follow Brady on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

This episode we cover the largest IPO since Uber back in 2019, another Chinese social media app called Kuaishou completes a $5+ billion IPO in Hong Kong. More news in China and their insane rate of house building which is approximately 5 times more houses being built than America and Europe combined. Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia shut down their internet country wide to prevent protestors from communicating. We cap it off with a hearty discussion of censorship - what are the implications of Donald Trump getting banned on Twitter? Follow Jonny on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Follow Brady on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

Brady and Jonny are back after a restful New Years/Holidays break. We spend the full episode breaking down what's been happening with GameStop, from the eyes of 2 university students. What's a "short squeeze"? Why did Robinhood stop GME trades? Who is Melvin Capital? What role does Citadel play in all of this? And how are we going to define market manipulation and stock targeting?  Tune in to find out.  Follow us on Instagram:  Brady - https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/ Jonny - https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/

Hello and welcome back to ThoughtBubble where Jonny and Brady, two University students, break down some highlights on what's going on around the world. We talk politics/global news, business finance and spend some time debating over controversial questions. Apparently it is now illegal to share photographs of police in France anymore. Protests have erupted in France in response to the passing of this new security bill. Janet Yellen was appointed America's next treasury secretary, making her arguably one of the most powerful women in the world. Salesforce looks to acquire Slack, Palantir shares soar up early this week, and we look at the curious case of credit card fraud. With e-commerce on the rise, credit card frauds are going up too. In Q1 2020, credit card fraud reports were up 104% from 2019. (From Q1 2018 to 2019, reports rose just 25%.) Follow Jonny on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Follow Brady on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

Welcome back to Episode 10 of Thought Bubble, we've finally hit double digits! Thank you for continuing to tune in and support this podcast. In this weeks episode we take a look at the new vaccine that was announced by Pfizer and BioNTech. With 90% effectiveness, will this be the vaccine that lifts us out of this pandemic? Probably not, tune in to hear more. In news of the promising vaccine, financial markets were soaring early on throughout the week as tech stocks took a tumble. Alibaba Singles Day sales hit over 100 billion dollars through the course of 11 days. We cap off the episode with some debate topics around whether or not re-selling is ethical and if it's good or bad for us to see aliens. Connect with Jonny: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Connect with Brady: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/

Hello everyone, welcome back to episode 9 of thought bubble, join us next week as we celebrate the 10th episode milestone of this amazing podcast. We hope you guys are enjoying listening to these episodes as much as we enjoy making them for you guys. This week, we talked about the final conclusion of the week long US election ballot counting and congratulated the 46th president of the United States: Joe Biden! in Business Finance, we discussed the new hype stock - NIO and XPEV, Tesla now selling Tequilas and Ant Financial IPO getting delayed by the Chinese government. Let us know what topic you want us to talk about next week on our Instagram story poll this week. See you guys then! Connect with Jonny: https://www.instagram.com/jonny_hsu/ Connect with Brady: https://www.instagram.com/brady_liu/