San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly Explains the 'Hawkish Cut'
Last week, the Federal Reserve cut benchmark rates by 25 basis points, but simultaneously signaled a slower pace of cuts for next year. The guidance surprised markets and sparked a selloff in both sto...
23 Joulu 202450min
Jim Caron on the Market Selloff and the Fed's Historic Adjustment
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points as expected. But it also raised its inflation outlook for 2025, and sees just two more cuts next year. The markets reacted viole...
20 Joulu 202427min
Nina Achadjian on What It Takes to Win in VC Right Now
The world of startup investing has undergone massive transformations amid the AI boom, changing capital markets, and an intense degree of competition from new entrants into the space. So what does it ...
19 Joulu 202442min
This Stove Company Wants to Change How the World Uses Energy
One of the minor culture wars in America has to do with electric stoves. To some, they're more energy efficient and better for air quality. To others, electric stove requirements represent government ...
16 Joulu 202451min
Tim Latimer on Solving the Financing Problem for Geothermal
Geothermal is a promising technology to provide clean, low-cost, baseload power to the electricity grid. It works by getting heat from deep in the ground, using technology that is similar to that used...
13 Joulu 202440min
Why You Can't Get a One-Click Mortgage Refi
You can do a lot of things with the click of a button nowadays. You can get insurance, open a bank account, or trade 347 different stocks all at once via an ETF. But one thing you definitely can't do ...
12 Joulu 202444min
How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom
AI software and the hardware that enables it have been hugely popular investments this year. But there have still been limiting factors on the sector, including a shortage of compute to power so many ...
9 Joulu 202449min
Ethan Kurzweil on Venture Investing in the Post-ZIRP, AI Era
In the 2010s, we saw an incredible boom in the venture capital space, fueled in part by cheap capital as well as cheap compute. Fast forward to today, and many things look very different. We're not in...
6 Joulu 202446min
