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1224 episodes transcribedWhat 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...
By some measures, the Chinese economy did better in 2020 than just about anywhere else. For one thing, it actually grew last year. Also because of the...
Bob Dylan did it last year. Shakira did it in January. More and more famous musicians are selling off the rights to their back catalogs to investors....
More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is nearly six times greater than that of the average...
The Treasury market just experienced what some might call a tantrum. Across the yield curve, we saw rates shoot up. And it's not even clear why it hap...
SPACs, sometimes referred to as blank check companies, are incredibly hot. After being a sort of sleepy and sometimes sketchy backwater of the finance...
There are lots of hot areas in the market, which everybody knows. Stocks are obviously hot, as are industrial commodities like copper. Agricultural co...
The world is facing a chip shortage. Numerous companies, including the auto sector, are facing an inability to get semiconductors, hampering their abi...
As you might have heard, so-called value investing has not had a good run. At least from a quantitative standpoint, strategies that aim to buy low-val...
During the worst of the pandemic, people loaded up on staples from their grocery store. Shelf-stable food items, beverages, canned tuna, canned soup,...
When you think about the big winners in the stock market over the past couple of decades, you might think about Amazon or Apple or some other tech win...
In a world dominated by passive investing on one end and retail YOLO traders on the other, there aren't many star fund managers these days. There's on...
Bitcoin, and crypto more broadly, have been on a huge tear lately. Then, with the chaos surrounding GameStop, there's been more discussion about wheth...
It's been a weird several days in the market. What started with a short squeeze in GameStop, driven by Reddit traders, somehow morphed into a huge sur...
We know that retail activity, much of it on Robinhood, has been surging since last spring once the lockdowns began. But just how big of an impact is i...
The GameStop short squeeze is one of the most extraordinary events to ever happen in markets. But does it have political significance? Some are saying...
