The Sixth Bureau, Episode 1: Your Friend From Nanjing
It’s an open secret that the Chinese government has engaged in a global campaign to acquire intellectual property from foreign rivals. At the center of that campaign is the Ministry of State Security,...
15 Feb 12min
Why Adam Posen Thinks Inflation Will Surge Back to 4%
The future is always tough to predict, but generally when it comes to inflation, a lot of the debate is about how long it will take the Federal Reserve to get back to its 2% target. In other words, pe...
13 Feb 56min
New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig on How to Regulate Prediction Markets
We are rapidly entering a world in which there are odds on virtually everything. During the recent Super Bowl, the big prediction market platforms didn't just offer bets on the game itself, but also o...
12 Feb 49min
Ricardo Hausmann Explains How the Venezuelan Economy Collapsed
Ricardo Hausmann is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of Harvard's Growth Lab. We've talked to him multiple times in the past about the necessary preconditions for economies t...
9 Feb 49min
Evolving Money: The Tokenization Tipping Point (Sponsored Content)
In less than three years, the amount of tokenized real-world assets has grown eightfold, to more than $30 billion across equities, fixed income, private assets, real estate and more. And that’s just t...
8 Feb 22min
Lots More With Charlie McElligott on This Week's SaaSpocalypse
This week has been a pretty wild one in markets. Some of the most popular trades of recent years — like going long software, crypto, or gold — suddenly collapsed. Of course, there are plenty of things...
6 Feb 33min
How a Former Fed Vice-Chair Is thinking About the Next Fed Chair
The nomination of Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve obviously has big implications for markets. But it also comes with some interesting sociological questions too. What role does...
6 Feb 50min
This Is How The US Can Become a Player in Rare Earth Metals
China's dominance of the rare earths market is well known. This not only creates potential vulnerabilities for companies, should access to those rare earths ever get cut off, it also gives China signi...
5 Feb 41min
