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1219 episodes transcribedPaul McCulley is a former Managing Director at PIMCO and a legend of the industry, having helped coin phrases such as "shadow banking" and the "Minsky...
The Fed is facing historic challenges for two reasons. The first is the coronavirus and the task of facilitating the economic recovery. The second cha...
There are some sectors of the real estate market, such as suburban residential housing, that are doing just fine throughout this crisis. However, othe...
When COVID hit, people had visions of a plunge in home prices and a massive wave of evictions. So far, that largely hasn’t played out. On this episode...
In the United States, Black Americans have experienced persistently higher levels of unemployment than their White counterparts. While the Fed has foc...
The pandemic has been brutal for restaurants and other indoor entertainment venues. So imagine running a space that's a restaurant, a bowling alley, a...
For years, people have identified the lack of fiscal transfers and fiscal burden sharing as one of the glaring architectural flaws of the European eco...
In light of the massive disruption to the economy, there’s a widespread view that things have been permanently altered, that fiscal policy must take a...
For years, macro hedge fund managers have been stalking the Hong Kong Dollar. Since 1983, the currency has been pegged at around 7.75 per US dollar, a...
With so many people working at home, bored, and with no sports to bet on, there’s been an incredible explosion of retail stock market trading. One ser...
The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been...
Switching careers is always difficult. But former New Yorker staff writer Maria Konnikova did it in dramatic fashion. Konnikova decided that the best...
With the virus crushing economic activity, local governments have had to cut spending and rely on Federal support in order to maintain basic services....
In response to the economic crisis, governments around the world have engaged in stimulative policies that might be characterized as “Keynesian” in na...
Officially, the US unemployment rate stands at 11%. This is higher than the worst levels of the financial crisis. And there are reasons to think that...
The world has gotten angrier in recent years, and the coronavirus crisis seems likely to have accelerated the trend. So what does this say about the e...
Central banks and fiscal authorities around the world have taken extraordinary measures to stem the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. But...
For years and years, the Chinese economy has been characterized as a bubble, with too much debt, and a history of badly thought out, state-directed in...
Adam Neumann had a vision: to make his startup WeWork a wildly successful company that would change the world. He convinced thousands of other people...
Nobody knows what the post-COVID future looks like. But there are some lessons to be learned from previous pandemics. On today’s episode we speak with...
