What's Really Standing in the Way of a Nuclear Renaissance?
The US is taking a fresh look at nuclear power. After a dearth of construction, and de-commissioning of working nuclear plants, people are talking, yet again, about it as a source of steady, affordabl...
23 Okt 202348min
Lots More with Gregory Brew
So far, the war between Israel and Hamas has had only a mild impact on world markets. Oil prices are higher than they were prior to the terrorist attack on October 7, but the link between the war and ...
20 Okt 202329min
This Is What an 8% Mortgage Means For the Housing Market
Mortgage rates have surged over the last couple of years. But surprisingly to some, actual home prices in the US have been resilient. This has created a historic shock to affordability, with a typical...
19 Okt 202341min
How An Old Banking Regulation May Have Driven The 1970s Inflation
There remains a lot of anxiety over whether inflation in the US will gather steam all over again. Part of this worry stems from the fact that there were multiple bouts of inflation in the 1970s, which...
16 Okt 202348min
NY's Cannabis Rollout Could Destroy a Legal Entrepreneur
When New York legalized recreational cannabis for adults, it didn't just want to fling the gates wide open for anyone to take part. Instead it specifically aimed to help out and give priority to indiv...
11 Okt 202333min
JPMorgan's Jay Barry on the Big Selloff in Bonds
In the past week, the bond market has experienced a historic selloff. Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries soared towards 4.9% while those on 30-year debt reached the highest since 2007. But the ...
11 Okt 202332min
Jigar Shah on the Pathway to Clean, Cheap, and Abundant Energy
Jigar Shah is the head of the Loan Programs Office at the Department of Energy and thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, he has hundreds of billions of dollars to lend to companies to accelerate the ...
6 Okt 20231h 2min
Austan Goolsbee on the 'Golden Path' to a Soft Landing
Can a soft landing be achieved? This is still a wide open question, given the highly uncertain macro environment. On the one hand, you have had a continued deceleration is most US inflation measures a...
4 Okt 202358min
