Episode Details

My guest today is Noah Healy, a market designer and game theorist working on a better way to organize how prices are set. We take something that sounds complex—commodity markets—and break it down into a simple question:

Why do things cost what they do? And why are prices so high?

Noah explains how current market structures create instability, inefficiency, and higher costs—and how a different approach, called Coordinated Discovery Markets (CDM), could lead to lower, more stable prices while still supporting producers. This isn't just about trading—it affects everything from food to energy, whether you participate in markets or not. In this conversation, we cover:

• Why prices behave the way they do
• How commodity markets impact everyday life
• What's broken in current market structures
• How CDM works (in plain English)
• How better design can reduce risk and cost
• The process of developing and patenting new systems

SHOW NOTES:
Website: http://coordisc.com 
Patent pending: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160358256A1  
White paper: https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.229/246.5fc.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CDM_whitepaper.pdf