Ep.2 - The United States are a wounded giant

Ep.2 - The United States are a wounded giant

The United States are apparently in turmoil. While the American public debt is growing at a frightening pace, and the dollar’s supremacy as currency of the world reserve is in doubt, a dark sickness grips its people. In 2022, the United States saw a record 50,000 suicides. Never before, in the last fifteen years, did so many people decide to take their own lives. Despite these weaknesses, the USA is still unparalleled in its capacity to attract and utilize talent. Also in 2022, American startups managed to collect 245 billion dollars in venture capital financing. This number alone equals that of the rest of the entire world. When it comes to the decisive game of scientific progress and technological innovation, the new frontier is right there where we left it. Trailing across the wild and undiscovered country of the deep West.

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Ep.37 - Roger Federer and high finance

Ep.37 - Roger Federer and high finance

If tennis is a metaphor of life, then it’s also a metaphor of finance – seeing as finance determines every aspect of life itself. There’s a strong connection between the trajectories impressed onto a ...

19 Jun 202414min

Ep.36 - What separates us from machines

Ep.36 - What separates us from machines

There’s something in common between Soviet Lieutenant Stanislav Petrov, American activist Aaron Swartz and the co-founder of OpenAI Ilya Sutskever. In different times and ways, all three of them have ...

12 Jun 202411min

Ep.35 - A bitcoin a day / Part two

Ep.35 - A bitcoin a day / Part two

Since June 2019, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez has been the President of the Republic of El Salvador. Bukele hasn’t just freed the country from the throttle of drug gangs, but also started an unexpected ...

5 Jun 202413min

Ep.34 - A bitcoin a day / Part one

Ep.34 - A bitcoin a day / Part one

Leather jacket, mirror shades, a neatly trimmed beard and slick hair, Nayib Bukele has been the President of the Republic of El Salvador since 2019. Following his election, he’s repressed the drug gan...

29 Mai 202411min

Ep.33 - J.H. Simons, the mathematician who conquered markets

Ep.33 - J.H. Simons, the mathematician who conquered markets

This May 10 we lost James Harris Simons, a legend of high finance, the so-called “King of Quants”, the mathematician who left university and conquered the markets. In 1982, he founded the New York Ren...

22 Mai 202410min

Ep.32 - The bunker: the dream of the West

Ep.32 - The bunker: the dream of the West

We live in an age of permanent catastrophes: viruses and wars, nuclear threats and climate crises. If danger is everywhere, then it’s necessary to seek protection in closed up and impenetrable spaces:...

15 Mai 202411min

Ep.31 - The American civil war

Ep.31 - The American civil war

Theatres are seeing the release of Civil War, by British director Alex Garland, and in the meanwhile the United States truly seem to be under the influence of irreconcilable differences. If we look to...

8 Mai 202411min

Ep.30 - The carnage of Rana Plaza

Ep.30 - The carnage of Rana Plaza

On April 24th 2013, at 8.45. Rana Plaza – an eight-story building which houses several activities including some textile factories, at Savar near Dacca in Bangladesh – collapses upon itself. 1,134 peo...

24 Apr 202413min

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