Ep.7 - Federico Caffè and the Ghosts of Keynes

Ep.7 - Federico Caffè and the Ghosts of Keynes

30th of October 1998, the Court of Rome officially declares the presumed death of Federico Caffè – the economist who disappeared without a trace one morning in April 1987. Professor of Economic and Financial Policies at the University of Rome, uncompromising Keynesian. Caffé literally vanished after his school of thought was defeated by the Conservative revolution of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Thirty-seven years later, many things have changed. The State is once again guiding the economy through the many systemic crises of our time – from the pandemic to wars. The ghosts of John Maynard Keynes have returned to the West, but the meaning of these apparitions is still unclear.

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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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