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Zoltan Pozsar on His Next Big Move and the Coming Monetary Divorce
Zoltan Pozsar has built a reputation for covering the intricacies of money markets. For the past eight years, he published those insights as a strate…
2 years, 9 months ago
What Ben McKenzie Learned When He Started Investigating Crypto
When the pandemic struck in 2020, the actor Ben McKenzie (who you might know from The OC and Gotham) had a lot of time on his hands. And like a lot o…
2 years, 9 months ago
James Montier Explains Why Corporate Profits Keep Going Up
More than a decade ago, GMO strategist James Montier published a paper predicting that corporate profit margins were destined to come down from "nose…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Saudi Arabia Is Spending Millions on Soccer Stars
Saudi Arabia has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars snapping up international soccer stars in recent months, including legendary players l…
2 years, 9 months ago
This Is How Finance and Banking Worked Before Computers
We're used to thinking of modern finance as practically synonymous with computers. Banks are basically just big collections of Excel spreadsheets, ke…
2 years, 9 months ago
Josh Younger on the Surprising Origins of Eurodollars and Petrodollars
De-dollarization is all the rage right now, with lots of talk about whether the US currency will be able to maintain its dominant status in the globa…
2 years, 9 months ago
Steve Eisman on Banks, AI and His Next Big Bet
Steve Eisman is known for having bet against the housing market prior to the Great Financial Crisis in a trade immortalized by Michael Lewis in The B…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Eyeball-Scanning Plan Designed to Save Us From AI
There are all kinds of societal concerns emerging out of the rise of artificial intelligence. Will it put us all out of work? Will fraudsters be able…
2 years, 9 months ago
This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software
There's a lot of frustration about the government's ability to build things in the US. Subways. Bridges. High-speed rail. Electricity transmission. B…
2 years, 9 months ago
Brad Setser on How World Trade Changed In the Last Three Years
A lot has happened since we last spoke to Brad Setser in April 2020, towards the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. For a start, Setser was appointe…
2 years, 10 months ago