Why Matthew Yglesias Is Skeptical Of Anti-Monopoly Policies
A recent proposal by Lina Khan, co-chair of Zohran Mamdani's mayoral transition team, to cap the price of beer at stadiums in New York City sparked a ...
Are Big Tech’s Regulators “Cowards”? ft. Tim Wu
Did you know Amazon makes $37 billion a year—more than double the revenue of all the newspapers in the world combined—from its sponsored results alone...
Why Economists Should Care About Inequality, with Branko Milanovic
Recently, Bethany and Luigi joined economist and wealth inequality expert Branko Milanovic in front of a live audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival to ...
Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler
Standard economic theory informs how we think about business strategy and the economy and presumes that people are selfish, have well-defined preferen...
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan
Every major technological revolution has come with a bubble: railroads, electricity, dot-com. Is it AI’s turn? With investments skyrocketing and marke...
Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi
The Japanese economy was once the envy of the world. By the 1980s, it looked set to surpass the United States in size. Real estate prices were high, t...
How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis
Why does a podcast about capitalism want to talk about science? Modern capitalism and science have evolved together since the Enlightenment. Advances...
Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis?
This week, the Trump administration announced it would sell around 5% of mortgage giants and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Fr...
Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen
For decades, private equity has been the darling of pension funds, university endowments, and sovereign wealth funds, promising high returns and low v...
Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan
What is the right way, if there is one at all, to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technology into our education system? For Sal Khan, CEO of on...