The $300 Billion Structured Notes Market Is Booming
The structured products business in the US has gotten very large recently — on track to hit $300 billion in sales this year. That they are all the rage means a once opaque financial product is getting...
2 Nov 51min
PHP2Shell Won't Be the Last Big AI Cybersecurity Risk
Earlier this year, cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in PHP, an open-source coding language used in roughly 70% of the world's websites, that had been lying dormant for a long time,...
30 Okt 49min
What Wall Street Really Thinks About the AI Trade Now
It has been a big week for the AI trade — we've seen wobbles in the market, many of them in response to headlines like the Anthropic S-1 and earnings from the hyperscalers (Oracle, Microsoft, etc.). S...
29 Okt 41min
AI Agents Are Already Changing the Price of Goods
It's obvious that things are getting more expensive, and there are plenty of reasons behind the surge in prices — whether it's wars or inflation or companies padding their profit margins. But with the...
26 Okt 50min
How a Chicago Restaurant Has Stayed Open For Nearly Three Decades
Richard Mott's first foray into hospitality was in the 1980s at the University of Chicago, where he started running a coffee shop in the basement of the business school when he was a grad student. By ...
24 Okt 48min
The Forgotten Godmother of Economic Literature
In 1776, the field of economics was born with the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. And among the book's earliest readers, and most ardent advocates, was a Regency-era novelist named ...
23 Okt 43min
Bhaskar Sunkara Thinks the Market Has a Place Under Socialism
In September, Gallup released a poll that showed that 43% percent of Americans viewed socialism positively, the highest approval since Gallup began the poll back in 2010. Since Zohran Mamdani won the ...
22 Okt 53min
James Robinson on What It Looks Like When a State is Failing
The third and last episode from our Chicago live show is with James Robinson, a professor at the University of Chicago and a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics (which he shared with Daron ...
21 Okt 37min
