Transcript
Introduction
Eric
My guest this week is David Nadig. David is the financial futurist for ETF trends and ETF database and has had over 25 years of ETF experience. We start off by acknowledging the debate over active and passive investing. David and I discuss the potential dangers of passive funds on market discovery, the inelastic market hypothesis and the effects of massive inflows into index funds.
This episode explores how leverage and options trading interact with these market dynamics and the broader implications on capitalism and market structures. Please enjoy my conversation with David Nadig.
Eric
David, I’m excited to do this finally. I think a great place to start would be a Twitter fight because what's more fun than people yelling at each other on the Internet. And recently, Professor Plum -- I think he called it, what was the word, acerbic?