Modern Bucket Shops

<p>Don and Tom kick things off with a colorful history lesson on 19th-century “bucket shops,” drawing a sharp parallel to today’s emerging world of tokenized securities—digital representations of stocks traded on blockchain platforms. While proponents tout 24/7 trading and faster settlement, the hosts question the real value, highlighting added complexity, thin trading, pricing deviations, and unclear ownership structures. They frame tokenized investing as a solution in search of a problem—one that primarily serves speculators rather than long-term investors. The episode …