Neel Kashkari on the Fed’s Quest To Get To Full Employment
The last two jobs reports have been strong, but the unemployment rate remains over 5%. And by some estimates, the economy is still 8 million jobs shy of where it would have been had it not been for th...
16 Aug 202146min
Brent Donnelly on What It Takes To Be a Winning Trader
The last 18 months has seen an incredible influx of people getting into trading. Thanks to a combination of Robinhood, a bull market, and perhaps more free time, trading is part of popular culture to ...
12 Aug 202151min
Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on the Economy and Monetary Policy Right Now
The economy is in uncharted territory in more ways that one right now. Coming out of the worst of the pandemic, we're seeing a rapid pace of GDP growth, along with elevated inflation readings the like...
9 Aug 202152min
Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How the Crypto Market Really Works
Sam Bankman-Fried is arguably the most important and powerful person in crypto. His crypto exchange FTX just raised $900 million and is growing like crazy. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Matt ...
5 Aug 20211h 9min
Gene Seroka on the Logistical Logjam at the Port of LA
America's ports are a key source of congestion contributing to supply chain disruptions rippling through the economy. Things have gotten a little better, but very slowly. And the disruptions are expec...
2 Aug 202156min
The Bathtub Episode: How the Pandemic Disrupted Plumbing
When you think about building a new home, obviously you think of various constraints regarding land, labor, and raw materials. But, of course, you can't build a new home without other basics, like win...
29 Juli 202150min
GXO's CIO on the Past, Present, and Future of Warehouses
You can't talk about supply chains without talking about warehouses. Basically everything we buy at some point eventually sits in a warehouse. But warehouses themselves are changing. Whereas at one po...
26 Juli 202149min
What Complexity Economics Can Add to Our View of the World
Over the past year it's become clear that traditional economics doesn't necessarily do a great job of accounting for real world problems like transport gridlock or irrational decision makers. For inst...
22 Juli 202149min
