The Hidden Plumbing of Commodity Finance
We talk about the commodity supply chain all the time. We talk about the ports and the trucks and the ships and all of that. But there's another dimension to moving commodities all around the world, w...
1 Kesä 46min
How the Invention of Rope Gave Us Modern Civilization
Rope is easy to take for granted. It seems obvious and straightforward. But of course, it had to be invented. Early humans discovered that by twisting fibers around each other, the resulting structure...
30 Touko 36min
Gita Gopinath on Why Interest Rates Have Surged All Around the World
There's been a massive selloff in the bond market and rates are rising all around the world. Japan, Korea, the UK... You name it. Gita Gopinath, Harvard economics professor and the former first deputy...
29 Touko 51min
Brendan Greeley on the Real 500-Year History of the Dollar
We love talking about money. And of course, we love talking about the dollar, in all its varieties — from bank deposits to eurodollars to stablecoins. But what fundamentally is a dollar and who actual...
28 Touko 55min
What It Takes to Run One of London's Most Popular Pubs
As our listeners know, restaurants are great microcosms for macro-economic trends. They sit at the intersection of everything from consumer confidence to commodity costs to the labor market. So on our...
25 Touko 1h 8min
Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big
Not many people think of designing buildings as an exercise in economics, but the entire process is defined by constraints around resources (both physical and financial), and an iconic building can al...
23 Touko 54min
'The Assassin' Fahmi Quadir on How to Survive as a Short-Seller
A short seller is a gumshoe who roots out a particular story about a specific company and brings it to light. And Fahmi Quadir, the founder and CIO of Safkhet Capital, has been labeled "The Assassin" ...
22 Touko 31min
Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip
Size is the name of the game for the AI chipmaker Cerebras: Their chips are truly massive, about the size of a dinner plate. According to Andrew Feldman, CEO and founder of Cerebras, that is about 58 ...
21 Touko 51min
