Aaron Lammer on Yield Farming and Trading in the World of DeFi
"Decentralized Finance," "Yield farming"... you've probably heard these terms before, but have very little idea about how they all work. On a recent episode, we spoke with one of the creators of the l...
20 Mai 20211h 5min
How the World's Companies Wound Up in a Deepening Supply Chain Nightmare
By now, everybody knows that global supply chains are a mess. Not a day goes by where there isn't news of some shortage or bottleneck. Chips, shipping containers, lumber, you name it. So how did it ha...
17 Mai 202149min
Jared Bernstein on Taxes, Spending, and Why President Biden Wants to 'Pay for It'
Jared Bernstein has been a longtime advisor to President Joe Biden. He was his advisor while Biden was Vice President, and today he serves on the Council of Economic Advisors. On the latest Odd Lots, ...
13 Mai 202154min
Viktor Shvets on Inflation and How Crypto Could Cause the Next Financial Crisis
What will the economy really look like when things normalize? Lots of people are, of course, anticipating a sustained rise in inflation, even beyond this burst in prices right now. Our guest this week...
10 Mai 202139min
Hayden Adams Explains Uniswap and the Rise of DeFi
There's an irony with crypto. While so much of it is ostensibly about circumventing legacy finance, many of the most important pieces of crypto infrastructure are centralized financial entities. For e...
6 Mai 202155min
How to Make the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Boom Again
This year, everyone's become aware of the hollowing out of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Whether it's the rise of TSMC, the stumbles at Intel, or the inability of car companies to acquire...
3 Mai 202151min
What Adam Tooze Learned About the World Last Year
There's probably nobody better at synthesizing massive events like Columbia professor Adam Tooze. His book Crashed, which came out in 2018, was probably the definitive take on the Great Financial Cris...
29 Apr 202152min
Why the Price of Lumber Has Soared Day After Day After Day
It's not often that lumber becomes a national obsession. But this year it has. Thanks to a combination of factors, including diminished sawmill capacity, a renovation boom, and then a homebuilding boo...
26 Apr 202159min
