Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots
Today's guest Mariana Mazzucato is one of our most requested. Mazzucato, a professor of economics at University College London and the founding director of its Institute for Innovation and Public Purp...
8 Maj 55min
How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub
The residents of Allentown are still sore about that Billy Joel song. While it's true the Pennsylvania city became synonymous with deindustrialization after the US steel industry began its decline in ...
7 Maj 52min
How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis
Since Mayor Brandon Scott took office in 2020, he's fixated on a very visible problem in Baltimore: the tens of thousands of vacant homes that dot the city. It's hard to build new houses when there ar...
4 Maj 49min
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils
Two years ago, Citadel's Ken Griffin paid almost $45 million for a stegosaurus skeleton, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. So why are dinosaur bones joining the collections of ...
2 Maj 48min
How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has highlighted the potential for long-running theoretical chokepoints to turn into reality, with dramatic results for both geopolitics and the global economy. But ...
1 Maj 56min
BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance
The last few decades have been marked by a number of megatrends in finance including the extraordinary growth of asset managers, the rising importance of technology, and the ascent of private markets....
30 Apr 56min
What's Actually Going On With Private Credit
The private credit market has grown enormously fast in recent years — so much so that by some estimates it's now bigger than the market for junk-rated corporate bonds. So what's driven all that growth...
27 Apr 50min
Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence
We live in an era of charts that are going up and to the right. This image obviously describes the stock market, particularly any company whose business is adjacent to artificial intelligence. But bey...
25 Apr 56min
