The CEO of a $1.4 Billion REIT Explains The Surprising Year In Housing
When COVID hit, people had visions of a plunge in home prices and a massive wave of evictions. So far, that largely hasn’t played out. On this episode, we speak with Ivan Kaufman, the CEO of Arbor Rea...
24 Elo 202034min
Rep. Ayanna Pressley On How The Fed Can Fight Racial Inequality
In the United States, Black Americans have experienced persistently higher levels of unemployment than their White counterparts. While the Fed has focused on aggregate unemployment levels, racial disp...
20 Elo 202030min
How To Run A Bowling Alley-Arcade-Restaurant-Bar In The Middle Of A Pandemic
The pandemic has been brutal for restaurants and other indoor entertainment venues. So imagine running a space that's a restaurant, a bowling alley, an arcade, and bar all in one. Our guest on this ep...
17 Elo 202051min
The ECB’s Former Vice-President Explains The Historic Step That Europe Just Took
For years, people have identified the lack of fiscal transfers and fiscal burden sharing as one of the glaring architectural flaws of the European economy (particularly within the eurozone). One posit...
10 Elo 202057min
Viktor Shvets On Why There’s No Going Back To Pre-COVID Capitalism
In light of the massive disruption to the economy, there’s a widespread view that things have been permanently altered, that fiscal policy must take a more active role in economic stabilization, and t...
6 Elo 202047min
Why Investors Keep Losing Money Betting Against The Hong Kong Dollar Peg
For years, macro hedge fund managers have been stalking the Hong Kong Dollar. Since 1983, the currency has been pegged at around 7.75 per US dollar, and it basically has never budged from that. But th...
3 Elo 202041min
How They’re Really Making Money On Your Free Robinhood Trades
With so many people working at home, bored, and with no sports to bet on, there’s been an incredible explosion of retail stock market trading. One service, Robinhood, in particular has gotten a lot of...
30 Heinä 202042min
Introducing: Blood River
The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed in the previous five years, yet almost no ...
28 Heinä 20203min
