Lots More With Isabella Weber on Draghi's EU Competitiveness Report
This week, former European Central Bank President and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi published a long-awaited report examining ways to make the European economy more competitive. The report comes...
13 Sep 202431min
Adam Tooze on the Big Misconceptions of the Chinese Economy
One of the big buzzwords over the last year or so has been "overcapacity." There's a constant line of argument that China is unfairly flooding the world with unprofitable goods and creating huge, unsu...
12 Sep 202449min
US Trade Rep Katherine Tai Describes the New Era of Globalization
One of the rare areas of bipartisan consensus in the US right now, is on the need to change our trading relationship with China. Former President Donald Trump started a process of putting tariffs on C...
9 Sep 202456min
The Booming Crypto Use Case That's Happening Right Now
Pretty much since the moment that cryptocurrencies came into existence, there's been a chorus of skeptics who argue that they solve no real world use cases, except for gambling and speculation. For a ...
6 Sep 202451min
How Hedge Funds Discover the Next Superstar Trader
One of the problems in investing or trading is that — to use a common disclaimer — past results are no guarantee of future success. Someone can have a great track record in their stock picks, but mayb...
5 Sep 202454min
The Black Hole of Private Credit That's Swallowing the Economy
There's been a lot of talk about private credit in recent years. The market has exploded in size, and there are worries that it could be a bubble that eventually bursts and sparks disaster. But there ...
2 Sep 202454min
Adam Posen on the Dangers of Jerome Powell's 'Rifle Shot' Jackson Hole Speech
Last week at Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a short and powerful speech indicating that it's time for a policy pivot. The goal now, from his perspective, is to prevent fur...
30 Aug 202434min
Hyun Song Shin on How Big the Yen Carry Trade Really Is
Remember August 5th? That was the day that markets around the world plunged in historic fashion and everyone became an overnight expert on the yen carry trade. But what really is the yen carry trade? ...
29 Aug 202438min
