San Francisco's New Mayor on Homelessness, Unaffordability, and AI
New York City is about to elect a new mayor, and whoever it is will have to address growing challenges like unaffordability, homelessness, and other basic quality-of-life challenges. Very few of these...
3 Nov 202536min
How Hudson River Trading Actually Uses AI
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though you can get great stock picks just by going to ChatGPT and asking it to recommend some investments. And yet financial firms of all sorts — including trading fi...
31 Okt 202555min
The Movement That Wants Us to Care About AI Model Welfare
You hear a lot about AI safety, and this idea that sufficiently advanced AI could pose some kind of threat to humans. So people are always talking about and researching "alignment" to ensure that new ...
30 Okt 202550min
Why It's Still So Expensive to Build Homes in America
Everyone has an opinion on why housing is so expensive in America -- and to be fair, there are probably a lot of reasons for it. But one simple factor is that homes are expensive to build. Unlike many...
27 Okt 202546min
The Hidden Supply Chain Making Every Menu Feel Familiar
If you go out to eat at a restaurant, whether it's a fast food chain or a Michelin-starred bistro, there's a good chance the ingredients on your plate came from the same source. Sysco is the dominant ...
25 Okt 202540min
Daniel Yergin on What Happened to the Energy Transition
A few years ago, governments and corporations were brimming with optimism about the prospect of getting to net-zero in the efforts against climate change. Today, you hear a lot less about that. And wh...
24 Okt 202544min
Why The World Started Hedging Its US Dollar Exposure
Some economists expected that the dollar would strengthen when the tariffs were imposed. Instead, the opposite happened. The dollar fell sharply and it's been a poor performer all year. Concurrently, ...
23 Okt 202546min
Olli Rehn on the Big Competitiveness Challenge Facing Europe
The 2010s saw economic weakness across Europe's periphery. Countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, and so forth were the sites of so much stress. In the 2020s, however, it's reversed. The periphery is ho...
22 Okt 202541min
