Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Exchange: Marco Polo 2.0
Italy irked the United States by backing Beijing’s grand infrastructure plan. The country needs to improve ties with the People’s Republic to sell mo…
7 years, 6 months ago
The Exchange: Laurence Boone
The yellow vest protests are fizzling out in France, but the inequities that fueled them haven’t gone away. That it takes six generations for the poo…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Exchange: Fomenting rugby fever in Hong Kong
As the city braces for the annual Sevens showdown, organiser Robbie McRobbie tells Breakingviews what the event reveals about its host. From fancy dr…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Exchange: The water-crisis marathoner
Investors and companies are ill prepared for the rising scarcity of this most important natural resource. With World Water Day on March 22, Thirst CE…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Exchange: Out of the desert, into a trade war
Weijian Shan spent his youth labouring in the Gobi Desert. Now he runs $30 bln at PAG, after stints at TPG and the World Bank. One of the first Chine…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Exchange: Austerity in the age of populism
Fiscal restraint is going out of fashion. In his new book “Austerity”, Harvard professor Alberto Alesina sets out to explain when it’s needed. He tel…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Exchange: Fixing tech's gender disparity
Women hold too few roles in corporate America, especially in engineering and computer science. Verizon’s Genia Wilbourn joins Breakingviews to discus…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Exchange: Hollowing out white-collar jobs
In “The Globotics Upheaval” Richard Baldwin predicts machine learning and instant communications will disrupt service workers just as automation and …
7 years, 8 months ago
The Exchange: Huawei’s U.S. security chief
Andy Purdy, who previously worked in academia and for the U.S. government, talks about the geopolitical edge to allegations about Beijing’s influence…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Exchange: How Facebook takes away our humanity
That’s the way early investor Roger McNamee describes what the social network - and Google - is doing without proper oversight. In discussing his boo…
7 years, 9 months ago