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In The News 2025
April 15, 2025 | Crain's Chicago Business
University of Chicago's Stigler Center. Doha Mekki, who served as the principal deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust during the Biden ...
April 10, 2025 | U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, keynote speaker at the Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference.
March 2, 2025 | Econofact Podcast
Luigi joins EconoFact Chats to discuss these issues.
February 16, 2025 | CNBCTV18
Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama, widely known as the 'Father of Modern Finance', predicts that Bitcoin will be worthless in a few years. Latha Venkatesh speaks to Professor Luigi Zingales, the interviewer speaking to whom Eugene Fama made this comment.
February 14, 2025 | The Street
"It's only digital gold if it has a use," Eugene F. Fama said in a podcast. "If it doesn鈥檛 have a use, it's just paper. Not paper, it's air, not even air."
February 10, 2025 | TechCentral.ie
Cryptocurrencies slammed as a risky investment on podcast
February 9, 2025 | The Indian Express
Nobel laureate Eugene F. Fama, in a recent podcast, revealed that Bitcoin as a medium of exchange may not survive.
February 7, 2025 | FirstPost
During a recent episode of the podcast Capitalisn鈥檛, Fama explained why he believes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies defy the core principles of a reliable medium of exchange.
Is Bitcoin on the brink of collapse? Nobel laureate issues dire warning
February 7, 2025 | The Economic Times
Speaking on the Capitalisn鈥檛 podcast with hosts Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean, Fama didn鈥檛 mince words about why Bitcoin鈥攁nd all cryptocurrencies鈥攁re fundamentally unsustainable.
February 7, 2025 | GulfNews
Economist Eugene Fama, 'father of modern finance', cites Bitcoin鈥檚 biggest flaws
February 4, 2025 | NewsMax
Eugene Fama, a Nobel Prize winner known as the 鈥淔ather of Modern Finance,鈥� thinks bitcoin will be worth nothing within 10 years, Bitcoinist reports.
February 2, 2025 | Benzinga Crypto
During an interview on the Capitalisn't podcast, the 鈥渇ather of modern finance鈥� was asked about the likelihood of Bitcoin鈥檚 value plummeting to zero in the next 10 years, to which he replied, 鈥淚 would say it鈥檚 close to one.鈥�
February 2, 2025 | Equifi
During a recent appearance on the Capitalisn鈥檛 podcast, Fama highlighted fundamental flaws in Bitcoin鈥檚 design, which, according to him, prevent it from being a sustainable medium of exchange.
February 2, 2025 | Africa Logistics
In a bold and thought-provoking statement, Nobel laureate Eugene Fama has predicted that Bitcoin, the world鈥檚 most prominent cryptocurrency, is destined to become worthless within the next decade.
February 2, 2025 | Bloomingbit
According to crypto-focused media outlets Crypto News and ProMarket on the 2nd (local time), Professor Fama stated on the podcast 'Capitalisn't' on the 30th of last month that Bitcoin cannot fulfill the role of currency, asserting that "the probability of Bitcoin's value dropping to $0 within 10 years is almost 100%."
February 1, 2025 | Crypto.news
Why? Cryptocurrencies 鈥渧iolate all the rules of a medium of exchange,鈥� Fama said on the Jan. 30 episode of Capitalisn't. 鈥淭hey don鈥檛 have a stable real value. You know, they have highly variable real value. That kind of medium of exchange is not supposed to survive.鈥�
January 30, 2025 | Startups.br
Em conversa com o economista Luigi Zingales e a jornalista Bethany McLean no podcast Capitalisn't (gostaram do trocadilho?), Gene Fama reconhece a dificuldade de fazer previs玫es e diz que os modelos econ么micos n茫o s茫o uma verdade absoluta.
Trump 2025 Versus Trump 2016
January 15, 2025 | Chicago Booth Review Podcast
As we prepare for another Trump inauguration, we鈥檙e digging into the CBR archives to revisit a conversation between Chicago Booth鈥檚 Luigi Zingales and Amir Sufi about the fundamentals behind Trump鈥檚 appeal. The conversation was filmed in May 2016 as part of our Big Question video series, which brings together Booth faculty for in-depth discussions. We wanted to bring it back because we were struck more by a sense of continuity than change.