Omair Sharif Explains How Inflation Measures Really Work
When people think about what inflation is, they might first think about some broad index like the CPI. What does the the CPI really tell us? And how is it constructed? And how much does its rise and f...
2 Sep 202158min
How Solana and Pyth Aim To Take DeFi to the Next Level
There's obviously a lot of interest in crypto and DeFi these days. And while it's growing rapidly, it's still not cutting much into traditional finance business lines. For the most part, trading on bl...
30 Aug 202158min
Mitu Gulati and Ugo Panizza on Haiti’s Odious Post-Colonial Debt
Nearly 200 years ago, the colonialist French power granted independence to Haiti. But it did so under the brutal condition that it pay 150 million francs in exchange for its freedom. This was a stagge...
26 Aug 202143min
A Conversation With Ajmal Ahmady, Afghanistan’s Former Central Bank Chief
Over the last week and a half, the world has watched in shock at the dizzying speed of the collapse in Afghanistan. Events are still unfolding, so the future remains extremely uncertain. One former of...
23 Aug 202147min
David Woo on What the Economists Got Wrong About the Stimulus
David Woo has always been one of the most outspoken voices on the street. A former top strategist at Bank of America, he is now publishing independently at his new site David Woo Unbound. On this epis...
19 Aug 202156min
Neel Kashkari on the Fed’s Quest To Get To Full Employment
The last two jobs reports have been strong, but the unemployment rate remains over 5%. And by some estimates, the economy is still 8 million jobs shy of where it would have been had it not been for th...
16 Aug 202146min
Brent Donnelly on What It Takes To Be a Winning Trader
The last 18 months has seen an incredible influx of people getting into trading. Thanks to a combination of Robinhood, a bull market, and perhaps more free time, trading is part of popular culture to ...
12 Aug 202151min
Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on the Economy and Monetary Policy Right Now
The economy is in uncharted territory in more ways that one right now. Coming out of the worst of the pandemic, we're seeing a rapid pace of GDP growth, along with elevated inflation readings the like...
9 Aug 202152min
