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1254 episodes transcribedWe are back in Jackson Hole! And this year's Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium on monetary policy might be one of the most interesting edi...
Earlier in August, it was reported that Nigeria's Dangote Refinery secured a $1 billion underwriting for its upcoming stock market listing, which is s...
Within the AI industry, even the builders of it have been very anxious about the technology. They've talked for years about its potential to create de...
The philosopher Nick Bostrom was one of the first thinkers who mapped out the existential risk of AI. In his 2014 book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dang...
Scenarios that used to be the domain of sci-fi writers are coming true. We have machines that can talk. We have machines that are capable of ignoring...
Every few years, weather nerds and agriculture analysts will talk about an upcoming El Niño, and then they mostly pass by with relatively few h...
In the last year, freight companies have seen a significant upturn in the business. Volumes are up. Billing is up. And in addition to growing demand,...
In the last decade, the New York Times has remade itself many times over. It has done that through acquisitions (The Athletic, Wirecutter, and the eve...
Our Town from Bloomberg’s Big Take podcast follows residents of Gainesboro, Tennessee, after a group of far-right Christians moves in with plans...
Just a decade ago, tinned fish was hardly a premium product. Most Americans likely associated cans of tuna with thrift. But that has changed a lot in...
Last week, the US joined forces with Japan to try to stop the yen’s slide. It’s the first time the two sides have intervened in the Japane...
Bloomberg Opinion columnist David Fickling tells us you can think of tungsten mining as “a century old prediction market for war.” As he w...
Insurers have quietly become a major driver of the private credit boom, with numerous private equity shops striking deals with insurance companies or...
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the country's new leaders — religious and political — promised to redistribute the country's wealth...
It's pretty obvious by now that globalization has fallen out of favor. And while many pundits have deemed economic globalism dead, we are still figuri...
Over the next two decades, more than $100 trillion will change hands in the greatest wealth transfer in history. This is a massive opportunity for fin...
When the fast food industry began booming in the 1950s, it did so via a new business model known as the franchise. This model allowed independent oper...
There used to be a time when the latest product release from Apple was a huge deal. But lately, it's been kind of 'meh,' and a lot of the hype in the...
2026 has been, in terms of software, the year everyone is talking about Claude Code. Indeed, Anthropic's coding agent incited a market scare — a...
Last August, President Trump made the unprecedented choice of moving to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook. The administration claimed she was being terminat...
