The Great Jones Act Debate
We finally did it. We finally did an episode on the Jones Act. For years on the podcast, we've been referencing this controversial law from 1920, which places restrictions on domestic port-to-port tra...
20 Mar 202533min
FTC Chief Andrew Ferguson on the Trump Vision for Antitrust
When Donald Trump won in November, one of the things that Wall Street was excited about was an expected liberalization of merger rules. There was a popular view that under Chair Lina Khan, the Biden F...
17 Mar 202547min
The Original Prediction Market Was Betting on the Pope
Prediction markets are everywhere nowadays. You can go online and bet on political outcomes, or the weather, or how long Taylor Swift will stay together with Travis Kelce. But prediction markets have ...
14 Mar 202541min
Is There an Extremely Simple Fix for Affordable Housing?
Housing affordability remains one of the single greatest sources of economic stress. Even if inflation measures were to come down, the simple cost of shelter is a huge burden on a wide swathe of the p...
13 Mar 202540min
Cathie Wood on What Comes Next in AI and Big Tech
Markets have been selling off, with shares of tech companies like Nvidia down almost 20% so far this year. But even before the recent selloff, DeepSeek rattled the AI market and sparked questions over...
11 Mar 202534min
Here Comes the Booming Chinese Biotech Sector
You’ve heard about Chinese EVs. You’ve heard about Chinese batteries and solar panels. And recently you learned that China is near the cutting edge of AI research. Here’s another category: biotech. In...
10 Mar 202543min
Trump's NIH Cuts Send Shockwaves Through the Science World
One of the first moves made by the Trump administration was to change the nature of grants made by the National Institutes of Health. Under the new policy, there's a 15% cap on "indirect costs" associ...
8 Mar 202544min
We Just Saw Europe's Biggest Week in Decades
This week was a busy one and some of the most interesting things that happened came out of Europe, where policymakers announced up to €800 billion of additional defense spending and an easing of Germa...
7 Mar 202530min
