The Ex-Jane Street Trader Who's Building a Multi-Billion Crypto Empire
The crypto market has come a long way in recent years. But it's still far less efficient than your typical established market. To understand more about crypto market structure, we spoke with Sam Bankm...
1 Apr 20211h 6min
How Gigantic Ships Are Creating Global Supply Chain Havoc
The Ever Given has been freed from the Suez Canal. But the whole situation was indicative of a broader issue in global supply chains: increasingly large ships are contributing to logistical bottleneck...
31 Mar 202131min
Virtu CEO Doug Cifu Explains Payment for Order Flow and the Future of HFT
When the GameStop and Robinhood story exploded at the end of January, suddenly everyone took an interest in market structure and things like payment for order flow, as well as the role that high-frequ...
29 Mar 20211h 5min
Josh Younger on the Soaring Cost of Climate Change and Understanding the SLR
What is the connection between the big trend in interest rates over the last several years and the cost of climate change mitigation? This is a question that's been analyzed by Josh Younger, a rates d...
25 Mar 20211h 4min
Luke Kawa on the Macro Situation Right Now
Over the last several weeks, we've seen major developments in the macro situation. The vaccine rollout has accelerated. We've gotten a stimulus. The economic outlook has improved. And rates have risen...
22 Mar 202149min
Stephanie Kelton on How MMT Won the Fiscal Policy Debate
In a sense, Modern Monetary Theory has won. This is not because policy measures are necessarily in line with what MMT adherents would prescribe. Rather, the debate over economic policy, in particular ...
18 Mar 202153min
Did We Just Experience a Break in the Neoliberal Consensus?
For decades, the dominant economic philosophy of the United States has been that fiscal policy should be relatively inert, and that the Fed should be the primary driver of macroeconomic stabilization....
15 Mar 202158min
Introducing: Doubt
A few decades ago, nobody really questioned vaccines. They were viewed as a standard part of staying healthy and safe. Today, the number of people questioning vaccines risks prolonging a pandemic that...
12 Mar 20212min
