The AFR launches true crime podcast, The Sure Thing
The Australian Financial Review.
The Sure Thing explores how $10,000 of seed money was turned into $7.8 million in just nine months.
The AFR said the podcast delves into temptation, greed, betrayal and a dream of creating Australia’s Wolf of Wall Street,
The series is hosted by two-time Walkley Award winner, Angus Grigg, who is
The AFR’s investigative reporter.
The six-part podcast is sponsored by McGrath Nicol.
“When university friends Christopher Hill and Lukas Kamay caught up during a ‘two-day piss-up’ in 2013, they hatched a near perfect plan to commit under-the-radar insider trading, agreeing to work towards the relatively modest profit of $200,000.
By Jessie Tu, February 4, 2021 He has been called “truth-telling hero”, “evil and perverted traitor”, “heroic, trickster, mythical – reviled”. Robert Manne called him the “most consequential Australian of the present time”. The new US President has called him a “high-tech terrorist”.
The protean narratives of Julian Assange, who will be 50 in July, have been brewing since 2010, when his website published “The Afghan War Diaries”, “Iraq War Logs” and “Collateral Murder”, a video showing the US military killing two Reuters employees in Iraq.
December marked 10 years since Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” in Britain, according to Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau in their introduction to
Wolves in fleece jackets: Gen Z faces dark side of Reddit rebellion
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Day trader and freelance writer Will Bennett might not look like a rebel, but he is part of an army of Gen Z retail investors shaping markets and rocking hedge funds.
Bennett, 26, is one of the thousands of younger traders who have banded together in recent weeks to storm the “Bastille of Wall Street”, as he puts it, and put a stop to short sellers preying on companies and retail investors.
Will Bennett helps moderate a popular Facebook trading forum.
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“The people who run the world are having a taste of their own medicine now,” he says. “It’s not such a closed game any more. It’s the democratisation of the markets.”