Fintech Beat: Blockchains as "Last Mile" Infrastructure in the Global South
Robby Greenfield shares how Umoja Labs are leveraging blockchain-based tools to deliver financial inclusion in Africa and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Juli 202234min
CQ Budget: Crunch time for Democratic agenda
Senate Democrats want to pass a downsized "Build Back Better" reconciliation package before the August recess despite a threat from the Republican leader to hold up a bipartisan chip manufacturing and...
8 Juli 202226min
Political Theater: Cruel summer: The Supreme Court’s lengthy break in the spotlight
Supreme Court justices have it made: Not only do they get to remake American society with a few opinions, they get to take three months off afterward! Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has joked that ”on...
7 Juli 202223min
Fintech Beat: The "How" of the Global Economy
Author of “The Field Guide to Global Payments, Sophia Goldberg, joins Amias Gerety to answer the age old question: Are payments companies getting paid too much (or too little) for the value they provi...
6 Juli 202226min
Political Theater: It’s a small White House after all
The walls sure are thin in the West Wing. That is just one takeaway from the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack...
30 Juni 202219min
Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: For Pride Month, reflecting on progress and the road ahead
As Pride Month ends, celebration is tempered by setbacks across the country, from laws that ban transgender athletes from competing in school sports to efforts to remove books on the LGBTQ experience ...
30 Juni 202252min
Fintech Beat: BIS's Hyun Song Shin on Crypto, CBDCs, and Designing Money
Hyun Song Shin, the BIS economic advisor, joins the show to talk about recent disruptions in crypto markets, and the advantages of CBDCs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 Juni 202235min
Political Theater: Send lawyers, footballs and money: the strange twists and turns of Washington's football team
Washington's professional football team has a long history of controversy, and Congress and local governments spend a lot of time picking apart its foibles. Would this happen in Jacksonville, though? ...
24 Juni 202220min
