This Stove Company Wants to Change How the World Uses Energy
One of the minor culture wars in America has to do with electric stoves. To some, they're more energy efficient and better for air quality. To others, electric stove requirements represent government ...
16 Dec 202451min
Tim Latimer on Solving the Financing Problem for Geothermal
Geothermal is a promising technology to provide clean, low-cost, baseload power to the electricity grid. It works by getting heat from deep in the ground, using technology that is similar to that used...
13 Dec 202440min
Why You Can't Get a One-Click Mortgage Refi
You can do a lot of things with the click of a button nowadays. You can get insurance, open a bank account, or trade 347 different stocks all at once via an ETF. But one thing you definitely can't do ...
12 Dec 202444min
How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom
AI software and the hardware that enables it have been hugely popular investments this year. But there have still been limiting factors on the sector, including a shortage of compute to power so many ...
9 Dec 202449min
Ethan Kurzweil on Venture Investing in the Post-ZIRP, AI Era
In the 2010s, we saw an incredible boom in the venture capital space, fueled in part by cheap capital as well as cheap compute. Fast forward to today, and many things look very different. We're not in...
6 Dec 202446min
Nouriel Roubini's Vision for a New Safe Haven Asset
For years, investors have relied on the classic 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds. The idea behind this was simple: bonds tend to go up when stocks go down, so the two things should act as a natural...
5 Dec 202445min
Goldman's Hatzius and Kostin on Markets and Macro in 2025
It's trite to say that there is a high degree of uncertainty right now, for macro forecasters and investors. It also happens to be true. The new administration is promising major policy changes in are...
2 Dec 202453min
Lots More on the Coming 20-Year Storm with Viktor Shvets
The election of Donald Trump, with his promise of more tariffs and a much tighter stance on immigration is a source of major macro uncertainty. To some it marks the end of a certain neoliberal consens...
29 Nov 202427min
