Scott Kupor's New Plan to Bring Tech Workers Into the Federal Government
If you're a high-skilled tech worker, then potentially huge fortunes await you working for a startup or one of our booming AI giants. But the government needs these types of workers too. And the gover...
25 Dec 202559min
Why Americans Are Falling Behind on Auto Loans At Their Highest Level Ever
By and large, American households are in a healthy economic position. Yes, unemployment has been rising, but it's still at fairly low levels. Consumer spending has held up well despite terrible sentim...
22 Dec 202550min
The Booming Business of Chinese Peptides
You probably already know someone doing peptides — the amino acids that form the basis of popular new drug treatments like Ozempic and Wegovy. Today there are peptides meant to help with everything fr...
19 Dec 202548min
Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop
The politics of AI are already exploding. Whether we're talking about data centers, electricity prices, labor displacement, water consumption, competition with China, or users of chatbots becoming psy...
18 Dec 202547min
MeatEater's Steven Rinella on the Economic History of Hunting
When we think about America’s economic rise, we usually point to agriculture or the industrial revolution. But in the early days of colonization, one of the biggest economic drivers wasn’t crops or fa...
15 Dec 202554min
D.A. Wallach Explains Why Biotech VC Is So Different
Most people think of venture capital as funding software startups or, these days, some new AI tool. But VC also plays a major role in developing new medicines and treatments. That’s the world of D.A. ...
12 Dec 202550min
This Is What It Takes to Get a Data Center Financed
Data centers are weird things. They're partly real estate assets. They're partly extremely advanced technological products. And they have to find a way to consume a tremendous amount of electricity fr...
11 Dec 202545min
Dan Ivascyn Is Excited About a New Era in Fixed Income
In the years since the financial crisis, bond investors didn't get much return for taking on risk. With low interest rates and little sign of inflation, investors had to accept lower-quality assets to...
8 Dec 202557min
