Tackling the housing 'trilemma', and the business of MMA
What are the economic and social tradeoffs of deciding where to live and how can one measure these? An economist at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis joins Cardiff Garcia and Kara Scannell to dis...
22 Juli 201648min
With all eyes on Brexit, what aren't we seeing?
Economists, analysts and bloggers in attendance at the FT's Festival of Finance weigh in on the global economic activity we might be missing because of Brexit-myopia. Then Cardiff Garcia quizzes Tyler...
15 Juli 201629min
Fact-checking Brexit claims with Tim Harford
Tim Harford joins host Cardiff Garcia to discuss the potential economic effects of the UK leaving the EU. The referendum campaigns that preceded Brexit included a number of exaggerations and, in some ...
1 Juli 201626min
Credit and crises, and the economic shocks of 2016 thus far
During normal economic cycles, increasing credit hides an economy's deeper problems, but when a financial crisis hits, all of that credit flips from shock absorber to shock multiplier. Professor of ec...
24 Juni 201639min
Social bonds served up at McDonald's, the US education divide, and a look at Wall St post-crisis
Across the US, McDonald's restaurants serve an underappreciated role: as defacto community centres for people at the margins of society. It's a story chronicled by bond trader-turned-journalist Chris ...
17 Juni 201645min
The economics of striking a work-life balance
Finding a balance between work and your personal life matters not just to you and your family; it can also make companies and the economy in general more productive. Economist and author Heather Boush...
10 Juni 201639min
Maria Konnikova on psychology, work, and why we all get conned
Maria Konnikova, a writer and author of “The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It… Every Time” talks to host Cardiff Garcia about her work and the challenge of judging the quality of social-science res...
6 Juni 20161h 12min
What's going on in hedge fund land?
Many investors are questioning the benefit of allocating chunks of their money to hedge funds after recent bouts of financial market turbulence and poor performance. The FT's US financial corresponden...
3 Juni 201637min
