The Truth About Money No One Taught You - Marcia Dawood
Marcia Dawood is an early-stage investor, serves on the SEC's Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, is a venture partner with Mindshift Capital, and is a member of Golden Seeds. She is ...
27 Jan 28min
How America Lost Its Edge And China Took Over - Dan Wang
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab. Previously, he was a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, ...
22 Jan 31min
World Economic Forum Founder: This Is the Most Disruptive Moment in Human History - Klaus Schwab
Professor Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971 as an independent platform for dialogue among business, government, academia, and civil society. Under his leadership, it became a key g...
20 Jan 33min
January 2026 Q&A: Who Comes After Trump, My Favorite Books, Life After Death, and More...
Welcome back to Open Book—happy new year. This episode is a rapid-fire Q&A, where I tackle everything from books and Bitcoin to Trump, AI, legacy, and what actually matters in a complicated, noisy wor...
15 Jan 24min
America's Inequality Crisis, Trump v Powell, Global Instability, Venezuelan Oil & Bitcoin?
In this conversation, Michael and I dig into a world that feels like it’s coming unglued—regime change risks abroad, populism at home, and a Federal Reserve under political pressure. We discuss inequa...
14 Jan 34min
America’s Power Problem: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Today
Edward Luce is the Financial Times’s chief US commentator and columnist. He is the author of three acclaimed books: The Retreat of Western Liberalism (2017), Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age...
13 Jan 28min
The Man Who Changed Youth Culture - Tom Freston
Tom Freston is a cofounder of MTV and the former CEO of Viacom, where he oversaw Paramount Pictures. Before his Viacom roles, he ran MTV Networks for seventeen years, overseeing Nickelodeon, VH1, Come...
8 Jan 34min
