Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence
We live in an era of charts that are going up and to the right. This image obviously describes the stock market, particularly any company whose business is adjacent to artificial intelligence. But bey...
25 Apr 56min
James Bosworth on the "Orange Wave" Happening Across Latin America
We're living in an extraordinary moment for Latin American politics. From the ousting of Maduro to the ongoing oil blockade of Cuba to Javier Milei revving up a chainsaw at CPAC. Various leaders in di...
24 Apr 50min
Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI
Not too long ago, search engines were the dominant form of querying the internet. But that's changing since the rise of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's Gemini. More and more p...
23 Apr 51min
Daniel Yergin Sees a 'Different World' Emerging After the Hormuz Crisis
When it comes to the history of oil and energy, nobody is more famous or well respected than Daniel Yergin. He is the Vice Chairman of S&P Global, and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of both The Pri...
22 Apr 45min
Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation
He's done it again. On Sunday night, building supply company QXO announced that it would be acquiring TopBuild for $17 billion. TopBuild sells and installs insulation for both the residential and comm...
21 Apr 40min
Jack McClendon on Why It's So Hard to Create a New American Oil Boom
The White House wants gasoline prices to be lower, and it wants to see American oil companies drill for more oil. But of course, these ideas are in tension. If prices are going lower, why drill more? ...
20 Apr 46min
Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong
Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with the...
18 Apr 47min
Planet Money Turned Everyday Annoyances Into an Economics Book
There are a lot of things to be annoyed about in modern life. The high cost of food and housing and childcare. Dating apps that don't seem to work. The fear of AI replacing you at your job. These are ...
17 Apr 39min
