Why the Question "Are We in a Recession?" Is Impossible to Answer
On Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that GDP dropped for the second consecutive quarter, fueling fears that the economy is in a recession. Today's guest is Austan Goolsbee, a profes...
29 Jul 202239min
Crypto Crash, Part II: A Debate About the Future of Web3
Today is the second half of our special two-parter on the state of crypto. Yesterday’s theme was the case against. Today we debate the case for. In the last few weeks, use-cases have become a popular ...
26 Jul 202254min
Crypto Crash Part I: The Case Against Crypto
Today, we have the first in a two-part series on lessons from the crypto crash. Crypto, also known as Web3, also known as blockchain-based technologies, remains the weirdest space I’ve ever reported o...
25 Jul 202249min
Why It Seems Like So Many Countries Are Falling Apart
The world is kind of a mess right now. There is a big, bloody, awful war between Russia and Ukraine, which has hugely disrupted global trade, especially in commodities like oil, wheat, and natural gas...
22 Jul 202253min
The World Is on Fire. Here’s a Realistic Plan to Save Humanity.
The world is on fire. In southern Europe, wildfires are streaking from Portugal to Greece. In the U.K., airport runways melted as temperatures exceeded 103 degrees for the first time on record. In the...
19 Jul 20221h 2min
Three Ways the Elon Musk–Twitter Showdown Could End
Well, that escalated quickly. Let's review, shall we? In January, Elon Musk started buying a bunch of Twitter stock. In February, he kept buying. In March, he owned about 5 percent of the company. In ...
14 Jul 202241min
Burning Questions About the Future of Media: Netflix vs. Disney, TikTok vs. Everyone, and the Metaverse
Will Netflix be the king of streaming in five years? What's the biggest threat to dethrone it: Apple, Disney, or HBO? Are movie theaters back for real? How has the pandemic changed the film industry? ...
12 Jul 20221h 12min
Musk Meltdown: Elon’s Breakup With Twitter Is Going to Be Very Messy
Derek has so many thoughts on Elon Musk's bizarre attempted breakup with Twitter—and what comes next—that he has to enumerate them. In this episode, he goes through five reasons Elon is trying to wrig...
10 Jul 202217min
