Making a Killing with Bethany McLean
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Going, going, Ghosn - with Joe Nocera
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the Season One finale of Making A Killing, Bethany brings back her friend, colleague and co-author Joe Nocera (Bloomberg Opinion columnist and crea...
Malcolm Harris on "Keynes Was Wrong. Gen Z Will Have It Worse."
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Maynard Keynes, the founder of macroeconomics, thought he knew what his grandchildren would be facing today. He imagined that capitalism would be...
Liam Denning on the Price of Oil
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The inconvenient truth of oil is that it is still the lifeblood of industrialized nations -- and the price, politics and pollution of it matters. A lo...
Kirsten Korosec on the Rocky Road for Self-Driving Cars
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, are often painted as a utopian-like technology that will save time (no traffic), save lives (no crashes), s...
Chris McCann on Cryptocurrency in the Real World
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cryptocurrencies are still in their infancy, as it seems most people agree, but it also feels like we’ve reached a tipping point. Even in Crypto Win...
Paul Tough on How College Makes Us or Breaks Us
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s a defining feature of upper income life for people with children, it’s school stress. How do you get your kids into the right preschool...
Nick Lemann on Shooting Sacred Cows (in Economics)
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's easy to take the economic mores of the time in which you live for granted. It's so easy, in fact, that it doesn't occur to most of us to question...
Mark Rampolla on Peak Alt-Meat
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Rampolla has been at the forefront of not one, but two industry-making companies. The first was his own ZICO coconut water, which birthed an $8 b...
Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Business of Ivanka Trump
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From the minute her dad took office, Ivanka and her business affairs have been at the center of controversy. Even though Ivanka removed herself from h...
Fake News and Fact Checking on Social Media with Kyle Pope
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany talks to Kyle Pope, editor in chief and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, about the importance of fact checking. In this terrifying...
The Business of Cannabis: Chatting about the highs and lows, with Jackson Tilley
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Now that cannabis is "legalish" there are a host of new opportunities for emerging businesses and investments... but also a decent amount of playing w...
Consumer v. Retailer: Online Shopping Gone Wild
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany talks with Jerry Useem, contributing editor to The Atlantic, about online shopping. Who has the power in the ever-expanding world of online sh...
The Debt Bomb in Middle America, with Ken Brown
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Wall Street Journal headline reads: “Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class.” In the article, we meet several responsible, educ...
Brexit as Game of Thrones, with Gillian Tett
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany sits down with Gillian Tett, Chairman of the Financial Times Editorial Board (U.S.) and a British author. Among many other things, she has a w...
Tesla, and why "Elon Musk doesn't care about you" with Linette Lopez
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the questions Bethany has obsessed over in her years of covering big business is this: "What is the line between a visionary and a fraudster?" ...
The Business and Crisis of Opioids, with Barry Meier
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, a prescription opioid known as OxyContin hit the market. It was among the first opioids to be heavily marketed (yes, legally) and since that ...
An Inside Look At The Crisis At Boeing, with Bloomberg's Peter Robison
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg writer Peter Robison conducted more than a dozen interviews with former Boeing employees and FAA inspectors, and went through hundreds of pa...
The Risks and Realities of Private Equity, with Dan Rasmussen
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It isn’t a secret that pension funds, which we all rely on to some degree or another to pay for our retirements, are in dire straits. Ready for a sc...
Netflix: The House (Of Cards) That Reed Hastings Built
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany talks with WSJ reporter Sahil Patel about the future of Netflix. Netflix is an incredibly aggressive company with a long term plan to monopoli...
Mike Isaac Is SUPER PUMPED To Talk All Things Uber
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t name your company "Uber" if you are planning to play by all the rules, make decisions by committee, and be everyone’s friend. But you pr...
Katherine Eban's BOTTLE OF LIES: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Eban’s new book, Bottle of Lies, is terrifying. Here’s why: 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics. Without ge...
Allison Schrager: How Do We Master Risk?
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany talks with Allison Schrager, author of the new book, An Economist Walks Into A Brothel. She’s a retirement finance economist, and has spent ...
Rana Foroohar wonders: What are companies actually for?
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Financial Times columnist, CNN analyst and author Rana Foroohar has a question for you. Since only 15% of the money that is flowing out of the largest...
Fred Vogelstein on the Problem of Facebook's Power
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany talks to Wired contributing editor Fred Vogelstein about Facebook. They discuss why obsessing about Facebook and privacy might be the wrong p...
Sheelah Kolhatkar on Short Termism
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany speaks to Black Edge author and New Yorker writer Sheelah Kolhatkar on the issue of short termism highlighting how Panera does things differen...
Geoff Colvin on the Rise and Fall of an American Retail Icon
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime Fortune magazine writer, author and analyst Geoff Colvin writes about the sobering bankruptcy of the once dominant Sears Roebuck & Co., s...
Alex Gibney on Theranos, Fraudsters and Visionaries
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the days of Enron, I’ve been fascinated by this question: What separates a visionary entrepreneur from a fraudster? Being a visionary req...
Eliza Griswold on what does fracking, fracture?
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bethany goes deep with Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Amity & Prosperity. They discuss the upside and downside ...
Joe Nocera on Juul, vaping, and the lesser of two evils
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Juul is the wildly popular, wildly valued and wildly controversial vaping company. Juul became the fastest startup ever to reach a valuation of more t...
Seth Godin on living in Amazon's world
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There is so much to understand about Amazon. Given its rate of growth and change, it can feel a little dizzying to keep up. But my main interest is no...
Trailer: Making a Killing
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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