The CME's Terry Duffy on the Big Risks He's Seeing Now
Terry Duffy is the chairman and CEO of CME Group, the world's biggest derivatives exchange and a trading behemoth whose name is synonymous with Chicago's financial industry. In this wide-ranging inter...
15 Maj 202351min
Introducing - Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Coming soon: When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes. But then his crypto exchange FTX collapsed Billio...
12 Maj 20232min
Ben Smith on the End of an Era for Digital Media
The 2010s saw the rise of a number of digital media startups like BuzzFeed News, Gawker Media, Vice, Business Insider and others who were set to usher in a new era of news consumption, displacing lega...
12 Maj 202349min
The Fed Hiked Rates Rapidly and Housing Is as Broken as Ever
The Federal Reserve has hiked rates rapidly over the last 18 months, and yet inflation remains surprisingly high. Perhaps what's most surprising is that even in the most rate sensitive area of the eco...
11 Maj 202347min
Inside the Battle for Chips That Will Power Artificial Intelligence
Nobody knows for sure who is going to make all the money when it comes to artificial intelligence. Will it be the incumbent tech giants? Will it be startups? What will the business models look like? I...
8 Maj 202358min
Care Work in the United States Has Been Broken for Years
Disruptions caused by the pandemic have revealed deep flaws in our supply chain for physical goods. Certain market failures that have been left to fester for years were suddenly exposed. But some part...
4 Maj 202349min
The White Oak Shortage That Could Ruin the Bourbon Industry
Some supply chain crises are acute. A bottleneck at the ports. A shortage of semiconductors. These can get fixed, to some extent, with concerted policy choices. But other crises are slower moving and ...
1 Maj 202347min
Why the Desire to Move Away From the Dollar Is Getting Real
There's been a lot of discussion about the possibility of "de-dollarization," or the idea that the world could move away from using the dollar as the de facto global reserve currency. Some of this des...
27 Apr 202338min
