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1243 episodes transcribedBloomberg 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...
American sports fans have long been comfortable talking in the language of stats and analytics. Soccer embraced the 'moneyball' revolution later; the...
On July 14, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on new large data center projects in the state. It's the nation's first suc...
It seems obvious that among the many industries that AI might disrupt, the legal profession might face some of the most adverse outcomes. When clerica...
Retail participation in the stock market is booming. And of course the biggest story in markets is the AI trade, which has created an incredible amoun...
We've gone through a number of a technological revolutions in investing, whether it was the dawn of the high frequency trading era or the introduction...
Here's a couple things about prediction markets. A lot of it is pure gambling and speculation, much of it on things with very little economic relevanc...
In June, grocery giant Aldi opened a store just off of Times Square in Manhattan. It's the company's first location in Midtown and, according to their...
There's this weird contradiction that hovers almost all conversations regarding the Chinese economy. On the one hand, the growth and rising material p...
In the China tech space, Baidu is now a full-stack player in the AI industry. The company makes its own chips, has its own AI models (Ernie), its own...
We know that companies around the world are investing heavily in AI. So intense is the race to win the AI battle, that it feels like there's almost no...
The Strait of Hormuz has (mostly) re-opened! Crude prices are still up since the start of the war with Iran, but popular predictions earlier this year...
