The Company That Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Jet Travel
We talk all the time about the US attempting to become a powerhouse in advanced manufacturing, but a lot of it just sounds like talk that's not going anywhere. But some companies are trying. Boom Supe...
26 Jun 202550min
Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist Who Could Be NYC's New Mayor (Rerelease)
Today's episode is a re-run of our interview from last month with Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. On June 24, Mamdani won the first round of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, makin...
25 Jun 202547min
The Chinese Chip Giant That Could Be Nvidia's Biggest Threat
Right now, Nvidia stock is back near its all-time highs, thanks to seemingly unquenchable demand for its AI chips. When it comes to profiting off of this boom, Nvidia's lead and lock-in looks almost u...
23 Jun 202539min
Targeting Type 1 Diabetes (Sponsored Content)
Madison Carter is a fearless investigative reporter. She takes no day for granted because she lives with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Dr. Doug Melton is a world-renowned stem cell researcher and distinguish...
22 Jun 202517min
Giuseppe Paleologo on Quant Investing at Multi-Strat Hedge Funds
Quantitative investing is one of those terms that you hear all the time, but there's various explanations of what it actually means, or how quants actually make money. And of course, the term means di...
21 Jun 202529min
Zichen Wang's Exit Interview From America
Zichen Wang is the writer of the Pekingnology newsletter, which translates important speeches and articles from China into English, and contextualizes them for Western readers. Over the past year, he...
20 Jun 202546min
Gillian Tett on Complex Derivatives and the Fifth Stage of Capitalism
After the GFC, there was a lot of angst over the fact that so much effort and brainpower went into designing complex derivatives, and other financial instruments. Not only was this seen as wasteful, t...
19 Jun 202547min
Jim Egan on the Mortgage Gap That's Dividing America
Somehow, the American consumer remains quite strong. Despite higher interest rates, tariffs, general economic uncertainty and so forth, people are continuing to spend. And yet there are some pockets o...
16 Jun 202535min
