Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum
“Homeownership is the American Dream.” This saying is so ingrained in our zeitgeist that most Americans don't even pause to question it. However, according to the Black Knights Home Price Index, the a...
20 Feb 202544min
Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan
This week, Elon Musk—amidst his other duties of gutting United States federal government agencies as head of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)—announced a hostile bid alongside a consor...
13 Feb 202549min
Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama
In December 2024, Bitcoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrencies and undoubtedly the most famous, hit $2 trillion in market capitalization, bigger than Tesla, Meta, and Saudi Aramco. In this episode, N...
30 Jan 202545min
Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay
The public often imagines corporations as self-contained actors that provide a set of goods and services to consumers. Underpinning this image have been ideas of ownership, rights to capital and intel...
16 Jan 202547min
How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt is an American political scientist, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, and the co-author (with Steven Levitsky) of several bestselling books, including ...
2 Jan 202549min
America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma
Are bailouts the new “trickle-down” economics? Have government debt and deficits caused capitalism’s collapse—thus ending the American Dream?Ruchir Sharma is a well-known columnist for the Financial T...
19 Dec 202449min
The Argentinian DOGE
A new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Its goals include administrative reductions, cost savings, regulatory cutbacks, and reducing federal s...
5 Dec 202447min
The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson
For years, the world worried about overpopulation and our capacity to sustain ever-increasing numbers of people. Now, the worry is underpopulation—and recent numbers are stunning. Fertility rate is th...
21 Nov 202445min
