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1219 episodes transcribedJared Bernstein has been a longtime advisor to President Joe Biden. He was his advisor while Biden was Vice President, and today he serves on the Coun...
What will the economy really look like when things normalize? Lots of people are, of course, anticipating a sustained rise in inflation, even beyond t...
There's an irony with crypto. While so much of it is ostensibly about circumventing legacy finance, many of the most important pieces of crypto infras...
This year, everyone's become aware of the hollowing out of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Whether it's the rise of TSMC, the stumbles at I...
There's probably nobody better at synthesizing massive events like Columbia professor Adam Tooze. His book Crashed, which came out in 2018, was probab...
It's not often that lumber becomes a national obsession. But this year it has. Thanks to a combination of factors, including diminished sawmill capaci...
There's a huge question mark at the moment about whether markets are at some sort of important turning point. For instance, we've seen big amounts of...
It's a weird moment for the markets. The big stock indices are near all time highs. And yet there have been some high profile meltdowns and blowups. T...
Whenever the government is engaging in fiscal or monetary expansion, people like to invoke the history of Weimar Germany and how soon we might all go...
When GameStop shares skyrocketed earlier this year, numerous pundits were quick to ascribe political significance to the whole thing. Was it a rebelli...
The U.S. Treasury market is the biggest, most liquid market in the world. Its smooth functioning is also crucial to the economy and the financial syst...
In the modern age, we expect to be able to turn on our computers, enter in a ticker, and know the actual price of a financial instrument, such as a st...
The crypto market has come a long way in recent years. But it's still far less efficient than your typical established market. To understand more abou...
The Ever Given has been freed from the Suez Canal. But the whole situation was indicative of a broader issue in global supply chains: increasingly lar...
When the GameStop and Robinhood story exploded at the end of January, suddenly everyone took an interest in market structure and things like payment f...
What is the connection between the big trend in interest rates over the last several years and the cost of climate change mitigation? This is a questi...
Over the last several weeks, we've seen major developments in the macro situation. The vaccine rollout has accelerated. We've gotten a stimulus. The e...
In a sense, Modern Monetary Theory has won. This is not because policy measures are necessarily in line with what MMT adherents would prescribe. Rathe...
For decades, the dominant economic philosophy of the United States has been that fiscal policy should be relatively inert, and that the Fed should be...
A few decades ago, nobody really questioned vaccines. They were viewed as a standard part of staying healthy and safe. Today, the number of people que...
