October 23, 2017· 25 min
ETFs Are Eating the Financial World and They're Not Done Yet
Orality
Model
57%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,550 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(564 words)
M:29%
GuestEric Balchunas(2,473 words)
M:29%
GuestJoel Weber(137 words)
M:25%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic48%
literally, completely, terrible
Engagement62%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
like (60x), know (43x), it's (40x)
Parallelism94%
So I'm already starting the ep..., So there is literally an endle..., And to do that, we have two gr...
Sound Patterns56%
28 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases16%
at the end of the day, you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging10%
probably, seemingly, quite
Passive Voice3%
been been, be compared, be packaged
Abstract Nouns21%
investment, recommendation, capitalism
Subordination16%
nonetheless, because, since
Sentence Length34%
Avg: 13.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity45%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style38%
307 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style98%
literally, completely, unfortunately
Description
By now, almost everyone in financial markets is familiar with ETFs (exchange-traded funds), and how they allow investors to move quickly in and out of a basket of stocks with a few clicks. But perhaps people don't realize quite how revolutionary they are, and how much of an impact they've had on the financial system. On this week's episode we talk to Eric Balchunas, an ETFs analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence and Joel Weber, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Markets magazine about how extraordinary ETFs are, how far they've come, and how they're about to evolve and get even more gigantic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.