Making a Killing with Bethany McLean podcast

Making a Killing with Bethany McLean

Big Business is shaping the world in unprecedented ways. Through a series of conversations with today’s best business writers and thinkers, journalist Bethany McLean (co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room) cuts through the hype and hand-wringing to reframe the stories you thought you understood and uncover the ones you didn’t know were important.

Big Business is shaping the world in unprecedented ways. Through a series of conversations with today’s best business writers and thinkers, journalist Bethany McLean (co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room) cuts through the hype and hand-wringing to reframe the stories you thought you understood and uncover the ones you didn’t know were important.

 

#31

Going, going, Ghosn - with Joe Nocera

In the Season One finale of Making A Killing, Bethany brings back her friend, colleague an... more

03 Feb 2020

39 MINS

39:47

03 Feb 2020


#30

Malcolm Harris on "Keynes Was Wrong. Gen Z Will Have It Worse."

John Maynard Keynes, the founder of macroeconomics, thought he knew what his grandchildren... more

27 Jan 2020

37 MINS

37:45

27 Jan 2020


#29

Liam Denning on the Price of Oil

The inconvenient truth of oil is that it is still the lifeblood of industrialized nations ... more

20 Jan 2020

45 MINS

45:15

20 Jan 2020


#28

Kirsten Korosec on the Rocky Road for Self-Driving Cars

Autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, are often painted as a utopian-like technology ... more

13 Jan 2020

39 MINS

39:43

13 Jan 2020


#27

Chris McCann on Cryptocurrency in the Real World

Cryptocurrencies are still in their infancy, as it seems most people agree, but it also fe... more

06 Jan 2020

40 MINS

40:41

06 Jan 2020


#26

Paul Tough on How College Makes Us or Breaks Us

If there’s a defining feature of upper income life for people with children, it’s school s... more

30 Dec 2019

43 MINS

43:57

30 Dec 2019


#25

Nick Lemann on Shooting Sacred Cows (in Economics)

It's easy to take the economic mores of the time in which you live for granted. It's so ea... more

23 Dec 2019

33 MINS

33:00

23 Dec 2019


#24

Mark Rampolla on Peak Alt-Meat

Mark Rampolla has been at the forefront of not one, but two industry-making companies. The... more

16 Dec 2019

40 MINS

40:48

16 Dec 2019


#23

Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Business of Ivanka Trump

From the minute her dad took office, Ivanka and her business affairs have been at the cent... more

09 Dec 2019

37 MINS

37:11

09 Dec 2019


#22

Fake News and Fact Checking on Social Media with Kyle Pope

Bethany talks to Kyle Pope, editor in chief and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Revie... more

02 Dec 2019

39 MINS

39:41

02 Dec 2019


#21

The Business of Cannabis: Chatting about the highs and lows, with Jackson Tilley

Now that cannabis is "legalish" there are a host of new opportunities for emerging busines... more

11 Nov 2019

33 MINS

33:47

11 Nov 2019