James van Geelen on Thematic Investing Right Now
James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research, scored big when he made his weight loss drug-related investments last year. He was also early into artificial intelligence investments, making bets on pi...
12 Juli 202447min
Joseph Stiglitz on How to Build Shock-Proof Supply Chains
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his groundbreaking work on information gaps and risk-taking in markets. But he's recently turned his attention to supply chains and how to ...
11 Juli 202456min
MMT's Godfather Says the US Government Is Spending Like a Drunken Sailor
Modern Monetary Theory has gained prominence over the last several years by offering an alternative view on the constraints to fiscal policy. The basic gist is that the size of the deficit is not per ...
8 Juli 202450min
Lots More With Stinson Dean on Crashing Lumber Prices
Lumber prices have tumbled dramatically in recent weeks, with benchmark futures falling about 20% in the past four months alone. What's more, this is happening at the height of the summer homebuilding...
5 Juli 202427min
How Brazil Gave Birth to One of the World's Greatest Jet Makers
There aren't many advanced manufacturing success stories in Latin America. And globally, there aren't many companies that can build commercial planes at scale. Yet somehow, one of the world's leading ...
4 Juli 202457min
How Brad Jacobs Will Invest $4.5 Billion to Reshape Building Supplies
Brad Jacobs has made a career of starting, consolidating, and growing whole industries. He did a trucking company. He did a warehouse company. He has a freight brokerage. He created an equipment renta...
2 Juli 202448min
The Theory That Explains Why Everyone Went Crazy
Does it feel to you like society has gone crazy? Well, you're not alone. There's a general view that all around the world, in the realms of politics, culture, business, and so forth, a lot of people a...
1 Juli 202450min
Lots More With Neil Dutta on a Looming Fed Policy Error
Neil Dutta, the top economist over at Renaissance Macro, has generally been sunny and optimistic about the economy over the last four years or so. But now he's warning of a possible mistake by the Fed...
28 Juni 202424min
