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Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks
May 19, 2026
It is hard to have a markets conversation that isn't out of date within a minute or two. But we think this one, with Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal of Deutsche Bank, is basically evergreen. This…
Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense
May 18, 2026
Whether it's the price of a barrel of Brent crude or a pound of beef, it's clear prices are skyrocketing for all kinds of goods and commodities. Price shocks and shortages are, if anything, the way…
Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet
May 16, 2026
The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce…
Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back
May 15, 2026
Making a long career as a bear at a sell-side institution is tough. Generally financial markets have done quite well which means forecasting doom and gloom is, usually, only tenable for so long…
Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields
May 14, 2026
Last year, when we talked to Martin Wolf, the global order seemed like it was being upended after President Trump unveiled his sweeping tariffs against nearly every US trading partner. A lot has…
Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive
May 13, 2026
In 2006, then-Senator Ted Stevens coined an infamous term for how to understand the internet: It's a "series of tubes." The funny thing is, that's a fairly accurate description. Underneath the…
The Bank of England's Megan Greene on Monetary Policy in a World of Supply Shocks
May 11, 2026
Ever since Covid, central banks around the world have had the same problem. They have tools that are designed to modulate demand, but so many challenges have involved the supply side of the economy…
Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots
May 08, 2026
Today's guest Mariana Mazzucato is one of our most requested. Mazzucato, a professor of economics at University College London and the founding director of its Institute for Innovation and Public…
How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub
May 07, 2026
The residents of Allentown are still sore about that Billy Joel song. While it's true the Pennsylvania city became synonymous with deindustrialization after the US steel industry began its decline in…
How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis
May 04, 2026
Since Mayor Brandon Scott took office in 2020, he's fixated on a very visible problem in Baltimore: the tens of thousands of vacant homes that dot the city. It's hard to build new houses when there…
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils
May 02, 2026
Two years ago, Citadel's Ken Griffin paid almost $45 million for a stegosaurus skeleton, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. So why are dinosaur bones joining the collections of…
How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint
May 01, 2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has highlighted the potential for long-running theoretical chokepoints to turn into reality, with dramatic results for both geopolitics and the global economy. But…
BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance
Apr 30, 2026
The last few decades have been marked by a number of megatrends in finance including the extraordinary growth of asset managers, the rising importance of technology, and the ascent of private…
What's Actually Going On With Private Credit
Apr 27, 2026
The private credit market has grown enormously fast in recent years — so much so that by some estimates it's now bigger than the market for junk-rated corporate bonds. So what's driven all that…
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Presenting Foundering Season 6: The Killing of Bob Lee, Part 1
Apr 26, 2026
The Killing of Bob Lee, Part 1: San Francisco Has Blood On Its Hands Three years ago, Bob Lee, a tech executive famous for creating Cash App, was found stabbed in San Francisco. His killing set off a…
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Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence
Apr 25, 2026
We live in an era of charts that are going up and to the right. This image obviously describes the stock market, particularly any company whose business is adjacent to artificial intelligence. But…
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James Bosworth on the "Orange Wave" Happening Across Latin America
Apr 24, 2026
We're living in an extraordinary moment for Latin American politics. From the ousting of Maduro to the ongoing oil blockade of Cuba to Javier Milei revving up a chainsaw at CPAC. Various leaders in…
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Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI
Apr 23, 2026
Not too long ago, search engines were the dominant form of querying the internet. But that's changing since the rise of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's Gemini. More and more…
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Daniel Yergin Sees a 'Different World' Emerging After the Hormuz Crisis
Apr 22, 2026
When it comes to the history of oil and energy, nobody is more famous or well respected than Daniel Yergin. He is the Vice Chairman of S&P Global, and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of both The…
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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation
Apr 21, 2026
He's done it again. On Sunday night, building supply company QXO announced that it would be acquiring TopBuild for $17 billion. TopBuild sells and installs insulation for both the residential and…
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Jack McClendon on Why It's So Hard to Create a New American Oil Boom
Apr 20, 2026
The White House wants gasoline prices to be lower, and it wants to see American oil companies drill for more oil. But of course, these ideas are in tension. If prices are going lower, why drill more?…
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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong
Apr 18, 2026
Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with…
Planet Money Turned Everyday Annoyances Into an Economics Book
Apr 17, 2026
There are a lot of things to be annoyed about in modern life. The high cost of food and housing and childcare. Dating apps that don't seem to work. The fear of AI replacing you at your job. These are…
Brad Setser on the War in Iran and the Future of the US Dollar
Apr 16, 2026
It's possible that the war in Iran could reshape financial flows in significant ways. Perhaps the Gulf states will end up as less desirable places to do business. Perhaps Iran will have a tollbooth…
War in Iran Is Already Reshaping East Asia's Energy Future
Apr 15, 2026
The war in Iran has caused the price of all kinds of commodities to surge, and that has a negative economic impact almost everywhere. But the squeeze is really being felt hard in East Asia, which is…
Presenting What Next TBD: Why Everyone is Freaking out About Private Credit
Apr 14, 2026
It's fueling the A.I. bubble, it's coming to your retirement portfolio—and it's flashing a lot of warning signs right now. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, private credit or “shadow banking”…
Ziad Daoud Explains How War with Iran Will Reshape the Gulf
Apr 13, 2026
Regardless of whether the war with Iran continues, it seems likely to have a lasting impact on the Gulf states. They may have to rebuild damaged pipelines and other infrastructure, or create new ones…
The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years
Apr 11, 2026
Stocks have gone up over the years because corporate earnings continue to grow. That part is straightforward. But in addition to rising stock prices, we've also seen rising stock market valuations…
How Shipping Insurance Really Works During a War
Apr 10, 2026
When the conflict with Iran started, some of the first headlines we saw had to do with shipping insurance. Marine insurers were said to be canceling war risk coverage for vessels going through the…
Thomas Peterffy on Interactive Brokers' Plan to Professionalize Prediction Markets
Apr 09, 2026
Right now, when you think about prediction markets, you basically think about two main companies: Polymarket and Kalshi. And then when you think of what's being traded on those platforms, there's a…