Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense
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 co...
18 Touko 30min
Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet
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 ...
16 Touko 47min
Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back
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. Which...
15 Touko 53min
Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields
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 happe...
14 Touko 1h 5min
Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive
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 world's...
13 Touko 42min
The Bank of England's Megan Greene on Monetary Policy in a World of Supply Shocks
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. W...
11 Touko 52min
Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots
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 Purp...
8 Touko 55min
How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub
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 ...
7 Touko 52min
