How Insurance Costs Make NYC Construction So Expensive
It's hard to imagine New York City becoming significantly more affordable as long as it remains so expensive to build things. Whether we're talking about new housing or transportation, the city is a f...
26 Feb 47min
Alison Roman's Plan to Conquer the Tomato Sauce Market
Alison Roman is a cult figure in the world of food media. She's written multiple hit cookbooks and several of her recipes have gone viral. And her newsletter is incredibly popular. Now, she's putting ...
23 Feb 53min
Jamee Moudud on the Intellectual Roots of Zohranomics
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has certain ideas that make mainstream economists' head explode. Anything in the ballpark of rent control, specifically, is widely derided by defenders of the orthodoxy. But h...
21 Feb 55min
A16Z's David George on How Private and Public Markets Fused Into One
This year could be a big one for IPOs. From Anthropic to SpaceX to OpenAI, we could see some gigantic companies hit the public market. But of course, the big story is that big, thriving companies feel...
20 Feb 48min
Jared Sleeper on Which Software Companies Will Survive the "SaaSpocalypse"
The start of the year has been an absolutely brutal one for software companies. There’s a big fear that the rise of AI and advanced coding models will pull the rug out from this industry. But even bef...
19 Feb 49min
Ray Wang on How AI Is Causing DRAM Prices to Surge
For years, DRAM -- or Dynamic Random Access Memory -- was kind of a sleepy, commoditized aspect of chip industry. Growth was steady, but modest, and prices just generally drifted lower. Suddenly all t...
16 Feb 45min
The Sixth Bureau, Episode 1: Your Friend From Nanjing
It’s an open secret that the Chinese government has engaged in a global campaign to acquire intellectual property from foreign rivals. At the center of that campaign is the Ministry of State Security,...
15 Feb 12min
Why Adam Posen Thinks Inflation Will Surge Back to 4%
The future is always tough to predict, but generally when it comes to inflation, a lot of the debate is about how long it will take the Federal Reserve to get back to its 2% target. In other words, pe...
13 Feb 56min
