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How to Make Money Selling Pizza in New York City

02 Aug 2025

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Everybody knows that New York City has a ton of pizzerias. And yet, new ones are opening up all the ...

What an LA Bakery Says About the Economy Right Now

01 Aug 2025

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Bakeries are great microcosms of the economy. There's lots of labor involved. You need commodities l...

Circle's CEO on the Booming Business of Stablecoins

31 Jul 2025

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Stablecoins are emerging as one of the most active areas of cryptocurrencies. The idea of using bloc...

This Is How Chinese Manufacturers Are Countering Trump's Trade War

28 Jul 2025

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President Trump has announced tariffs on basically every trading partner. However there is a real se...

How a Trade War With China Could Become a Hot War

26 Jul 2025

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Tension between the US and China has been building for some time. But so far this has been limited t...

What 300 Years of Firewood Prices Say About the Economy

25 Jul 2025

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Today, the cost of energy — things like electricity, or gas, or heating oil — is conside...

How to Prepare for a Post-Dollar World with Inigo Fraser Jenkins

24 Jul 2025

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People talk all the time about the potential for huge turning points in history. And they've been ta...

The NYC Landlords Most Worried About Zohran Mamdani

21 Jul 2025

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Probably the most controversial proposal from New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdan...

Why the Damage to Fed Independence May Have Already Been Done

19 Jul 2025

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There’s a long history of US presidents putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower inter...

Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City

18 Jul 2025

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Incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams didn't run in the Democratic primary. But he'll be on the ballot in N...

What AI Is Already Doing to the Legal Industry

17 Jul 2025

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If there's one thing that lawyers do a lot of, it's spending a prodigious number of hours going thro...

Why US Banks Are Trying to Turn Themselves Into Super Apps

14 Jul 2025

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Rohit Chopra is a former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created in ...

What NYC's Most Powerful CEOs Think About Zohran Mamdani

11 Jul 2025

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When socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic party's nomination for NYC mayor, top bus...

How a Geopolitical Analyst Predicts the Outcome of War

10 Jul 2025

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For investors, geopolitical risks are always lurking as a factor that could upend trades for obvious...

How You Get and Actually Keep a Job at a Multi-Strat Hedge Fund

07 Jul 2025

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Multi-strategy hedge funds, composed of lots of individual portfolio managers, have seen assets unde...

Emily Sundberg on How Nobody Is Coming to Save Gen Z

05 Jul 2025

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What do young professionals in New York City actually think about money and capitalism? According to...

Nassim Taleb on Living a Good Life in an Age of Volatility

04 Jul 2025

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Every day we're inundated with headlines that are seemingly unbelievable. Multiple major wars are on...

Charlie McElligott on How Long the Stock Market Rally Can Go

03 Jul 2025

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Stocks plunged after the April 2 "Liberation Day," in one of the worst drawdowns in the market's his...

The Greatest Ever Panel on the World's Most Important Market

02 Jul 2025

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Okay, that's quite a title but we think it's justified! In this special episode — recorded liv...

Robinhood's CEO on the Plan to Tokenize Everything

01 Jul 2025

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Robinhood, the company known for first introducing commission-free trading, has now become a behemot...

Jim Chanos on the Nuttiness of 'Bitcoin Treasury Companies'

30 Jun 2025

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For awhile there was just MicroStrategy (which has since been renamed as Strategy.) It started buyin...

The Biotech Start-Up Making Vaccines for Bees and Shrimp

28 Jun 2025

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Think of a biotech company and most people will think of a business trying to come up with cures and...

Lots More on What's Going On in Iran's Markets

27 Jun 2025

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Iran is a huge country with a sizable stock market. And yet, years of sanctions and other restrictio...

The Company That Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Jet Travel

26 Jun 2025

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We talk all the time about the US attempting to become a powerhouse in advanced manufacturing, but a...

Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist Who Could Be NYC's New Mayor (Rerelease)

25 Jun 2025

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Today's episode is a re-run of our interview from last month with Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani....

The Chinese Chip Giant That Could Be Nvidia's Biggest Threat

23 Jun 2025

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Right now, Nvidia stock is back near its all-time highs, thanks to seemingly unquenchable demand for...

Targeting Type 1 Diabetes (Sponsored Content)

22 Jun 2025

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Madison Carter is a fearless investigative reporter. She takes no day for granted because she lives ...

Giuseppe Paleologo on Quant Investing at Multi-Strat Hedge Funds

21 Jun 2025

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Quantitative investing is one of those terms that you hear all the time, but there's various explana...

Zichen Wang's Exit Interview From America

20 Jun 2025

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Zichen Wang is the writer of the Pekingnology newsletter, which translates important speeches and a...

Gillian Tett on Complex Derivatives and the Fifth Stage of Capitalism

19 Jun 2025

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After the GFC, there was a lot of angst over the fact that so much effort and brainpower went into d...

Jim Egan on the Mortgage Gap That's Dividing America

16 Jun 2025

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Somehow, the American consumer remains quite strong. Despite higher interest rates, tariffs, general...

The Big Gulf AI Deal That's Divided the White House

14 Jun 2025

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Back in May, President Trump announced this big plan whereby American tech giants would participate ...

Trump Economic Advisor, Stephen Miran, on Tariffs and Tax Cuts

13 Jun 2025

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The Trump administration seems to have a lot of big ideas about reshaping America, including its eco...

Ricardo Hausmann on What it Takes to Win a Trade War

12 Jun 2025

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The focus of Trump's trade policies is clearly China. There are tariffs on everyone, of course, but ...

Vladislav Zubok on What the Cold War Actually Was

09 Jun 2025

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These days, it's common to talk about the emergence of a New Cold War that exists between the US and...

Introducing: Everybody's Business

08 Jun 2025

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Bloomberg Businessweek brings you a smart and fun chat show about all things...business. Hosted by a...

A Major American Egg Farm Just Lost 90% of its Chickens

07 Jun 2025

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Egg prices have come down a lot since their recent record and bird flu has largely faded from the he...

Lots More on What America's Busiest Port is Seeing from the Trade Tariffs

06 Jun 2025

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We're about two months on from Liberation Day, and there's still a lot of confusion about what's goi...

Jersey City's Mayor on How the City Built So Much Housing

05 Jun 2025

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To some extent, at least in big cities, it feels as though the cost of housing is enveloping almost ...

Why It's So Hard for Apple to Move Production from China to India

02 Jun 2025

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President Trump wants Apple to make iPhones in America. The company itself has talked about — ...

How Do We Define a Currency?

31 May 2025

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What is a currency? This turns out to be one of those questions we just kind of skip over because we...

Krishna Memani on Wall Street's Very Expensive "Free Lunch"

30 May 2025

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We're told over and over again that the one "free lunch" in investing is diversification, and that y...

Michael Cembalest on Why AI Is the Stock Market Bet of the Century

29 May 2025

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Michael Cembalest has been an investment analyst for almost 40 years and his research notes have dra...

Why Asset Allocators Love Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds

26 May 2025

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Multi-strategy hedge funds have been having a moment with big asset allocators pouring billions of d...

Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist Who Could Be NYC's New Mayor

23 May 2025

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We're just a month away from the hotly-contested Democratic primary for New York City Mayor. And one...

Why Interest Rates Are Shooting Up All Around the World

22 May 2025

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This week the big story in markets is the selloff in bonds. Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasurie...

Scott Bok on How Bankers Spread the Gospel of Capitalism

19 May 2025

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When we think about the prospect of deglobalization (whatever that means) we often think about it in...

Atlanta Fed's Raphael Bostic on Monetary Policy During Extreme Uncertainty

16 May 2025

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This is obviously an extraordinarily difficult time to make economic forecasts. Nobody really knows ...

The Oil Industry's Double Whammy of Higher Costs and Lower Prices

15 May 2025

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The new administration has a "drill, baby, drill" mantra and a much more liberal attitude towards th...

Perry Mehrling on Trump's Echoes of the Nixon Shock

14 May 2025

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There's been a lot of talk recently about parallels between Donald Trump's economic policies and the...

Philip Diehl on the Booming Business of Gold Coins

12 May 2025

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Gold prices have been booming and are near record highs. And seeing the line go up — especiall...

Why the World Keeps Getting Shocked by China's Technological Progress

10 May 2025

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Over the last several years, the world has watched as China edges close to or past the technological...

Sarah LaFleur On the Existential Threat From the Tariffs

09 May 2025

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America's textile industry has famously declined over the years, with a bunch of production moving t...

How China Might Actually Handle a US Trade War

08 May 2025

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By now, everyone recognizes that the US and China are in the middle of a trade war, with the Trump a...

The Tariff Buzzsaw Is Coming For Hardcore Gamers

07 May 2025

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Every industry is going to be affected by the trade war in different ways. In many cases, we don't k...

Brad Setser on the Big Surge in the Taiwanese Dollar

06 May 2025

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There are several markets that have really settled down since the tumult of early April. But strange...

Henry Blodget on AI, Dot-Coms, and What's Changed In 25 Years

05 May 2025

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What does history say about how big the AI boom can get, and who will ultimately win out? When does ...

Chris Hughes on How to Craft a Thriving Market

03 May 2025

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Over the last several years, both parties in the US have been drifting away from laissez-faire think...

What The 'Lentil King of Saskatchewan' Knows About World Trade

02 May 2025

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We don't know what the end state for the tariffs are going to be, but inevitably there will be some ...

Blackstone's King of Hedge Funds on Alt Investing Right Now

01 May 2025

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Everyone knows by now that college endowment funds have gone big on alternative investing, pouring b...

Some of America's Most Important Economic Data Is Decaying

30 Apr 2025

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Gathering official economic data is a huge process in the best of times. But a bunch of different th...

What We Learned About Treasuries on the Night of April 8

28 Apr 2025

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When stocks are plunging in a typical market environment, people reach for safe haven assets like US...

Lots More on How TikTok Options Traders Got Quiet

26 Apr 2025

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Over the last few years, retail traders have gotten into options in a major way. Selling puts, buyin...

Anna Wong: Empty Shelves Are Coming Soon

25 Apr 2025

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If you look at most of the official hard data right now, there still isn't much evidence of a sharp ...

David Woo: What Trump Started is Worse Than a Trade War

24 Apr 2025

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For the most part, Americans haven't felt much pain yet from the tariffs that Donald Trump introduce...

Big Take: What a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Teaches Us About the Economy

23 Apr 2025

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When it comes to measuring economic pain, the cost of a humble breakfast sandwich might not be top o...

This Is What President Biden's CHIPS Office Actually Did

23 Apr 2025

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One of the stated goals for the current trade war is to build more industrial capacity in the United...

Martin Wolf on Trump's Shakeup of the Global Order

21 Apr 2025

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Martin Wolf has been called one of the world's most important economics commentators, and has for de...

Here's Why Uncertainty Is An Economic Killer

20 Apr 2025

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Here's Why is Bloomberg’s short explainer podcast, where we take one big news story and break ...

Why the Pentagon Fails Audits Year After Year After Year

19 Apr 2025

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Last year, it was announced that the US Department of Defense had failed an audit for its seventh st...

Mitu Gulati on Whether Trump Could Restructure US Debt

18 Apr 2025

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US Treasuries are the most important market in the world. With some $29 trillion outstanding, they c...

Is This the End of the US Exceptionalism Trade?

17 Apr 2025

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For years and years now, there has been one winning trade: Go long the US versus the rest of the wor...

Javier Blas on China's Rare Earths Dominance

15 Apr 2025

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Every time there is tension between the US and China, there are stories about China threatening to w...

What an American Stove Maker Wants You to Know About US Manufacturing

14 Apr 2025

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One of the ironies of the tariffs is that, while ostensibly the goal is to reshore US manufacturing,...

Introducing: Stock Movers

13 Apr 2025

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Check out the new Stock Movers Podcast from Bloomberg. Subscribe for five-minute reports on today's ...

Jim Chanos on Who's Getting Caught Swimming Naked

12 Apr 2025

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In a big bull market, people will overlook a lot. They'll suspend their disbelief. They'll buy into ...

Lots More on Why Neil Dutta Is Sticking With His Recession Call

11 Apr 2025

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On Wednesday, President Trump put a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for every country except Chin...

Rob Kaplan on How the Fed Will Think about the Tariffs

10 Apr 2025

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On Wednesday, Trump pulled back from the brink on most of the reciprocal tariffs announced on April ...

Viktor Shvets on Trump's Historical, Revolutionary Moves

09 Apr 2025

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How should we make sense of the Trump tariffs? They've been terrible for the stock market, obviously...

What Tariffs Are Doing to North American Freight

08 Apr 2025

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Amidst Trump's dramatic tariff moves, trade in North America remains uncertain. The USMCA hasn't bee...

What Trump's Tariffs Are Already Doing to World Trade

07 Apr 2025

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It was just last Wednesday that President Trump announced his new tariff schedule with the rest of t...

Tether's CEO Speaks on His Insanely Profitable Business

07 Apr 2025

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Anything crypto-related is frequently greeted with a high degree of skepticism. Within that, one of ...

Brad Setser on the Damage From Trump's Gigantic Tariff Shock

05 Apr 2025

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He needs no introduction: When trade is in the news, we speak with Brad Setser of the Council on For...

Lots More on a Massive, Historical, Stagflationary Shock

04 Apr 2025

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On Wednesday, President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against almost every country in the world. T...

Tim Geithner on How to Fight the Next Financial Crisis

03 Apr 2025

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The 2008 financial crisis is fading into history, but the risks of something big happening again rem...

The Growing Risk to Fed Independence That Wall St Isn't Watching

01 Apr 2025

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Last month, Donald Trump fired the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissioners. They hav...

Nick Denton's Big Bet Against the United States

31 Mar 2025

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Legendary media mogul Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, is done with the US. He’s leaving Ne...

The Last Time Investors Really Got Excited For Tech Infrastructure

28 Mar 2025

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One of the biggest questions hanging over the market right now is whether or not the seemingly unlim...

Why Brad Jacobs Is Spending $11 Billion on a Roofing Supply Business

27 Mar 2025

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Brad Jacobs has made a fortune in his career buying and building big logistics companies, like Unite...

Jim Millstein on the Massive Risks of Any 'Mar-a-Lago Accord'

24 Mar 2025

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President Trump wants higher tariffs, and he also wants more industrial production in the United Sta...

Lots More With Charlie McElligott on the Sharp, Strange Selloff

21 Mar 2025

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Last week, the US market sold off sharply. The S&P 500 fell as much as 3.6% on Monday alone, ent...

The Great Jones Act Debate

20 Mar 2025

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We finally did it. We finally did an episode on the Jones Act. For years on the podcast, we've been ...

FTC Chief Andrew Ferguson on the Trump Vision for Antitrust

17 Mar 2025

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When Donald Trump won in November, one of the things that Wall Street was excited about was an expec...

The Original Prediction Market Was Betting on the Pope

14 Mar 2025

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Prediction markets are everywhere nowadays. You can go online and bet on political outcomes, or the ...

Is There an Extremely Simple Fix for Affordable Housing?

13 Mar 2025

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Housing affordability remains one of the single greatest sources of economic stress. Even if inflati...

Cathie Wood on What Comes Next in AI and Big Tech

11 Mar 2025

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Markets have been selling off, with shares of tech companies like Nvidia down almost 20% so far this...

Here Comes the Booming Chinese Biotech Sector

10 Mar 2025

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You’ve heard about Chinese EVs. You’ve heard about Chinese batteries and solar panels. A...

Trump's NIH Cuts Send Shockwaves Through the Science World

08 Mar 2025

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One of the first moves made by the Trump administration was to change the nature of grants made by t...

We Just Saw Europe's Biggest Week in Decades

07 Mar 2025

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This week was a busy one and some of the most interesting things that happened came out of Europe, w...

Eugene Fama and David Booth on the Birth of Modern Finance

06 Mar 2025

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The 1970s were a pretty eventful time in markets. There was high inflation, the end of the gold stan...