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Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday, Thursday, and Friday

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday, Thursday, and Friday

 

#1216

How the Invention of Rope Gave Us Modern Civilization

Rope is easy to take for granted. It seems obvious and straightforward. But of course, it ... more

9 hrs Ago

36 MINS

36:51

9 hrs Ago


#1215

Gita Gopinath on Why Interest Rates Have Surged All Around the World

There's been a massive selloff in the bond market and rates are rising all around the worl... more

Yesterday

51 MINS

51:44

Yesterday


#1214

Brendan Greeley on the Real 500-Year History of the Dollar

We love talking about money. And of course, we love talking about the dollar, in all its v... more

28 May 2026

55 MINS

55:00

28 May 2026


#1213

What It Takes to Run One of London's Most Popular Pubs

As our listeners know, restaurants are great microcosms for macro-economic trends. They si... more

25 May 2026

1 HR 08 MINS

1:08:26

25 May 2026


#1212

Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Not many people think of designing buildings as an exercise in economics, but the entire p... more

23 May 2026

54 MINS

54:16

23 May 2026


#1211

'The Assassin' Fahmi Quadir on How to Survive as a Short-Seller

A short seller is a gumshoe who roots out a particular story about a specific company and ... more

22 May 2026

31 MINS

31:40

22 May 2026


#1210

Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip

Size is the name of the game for the AI chipmaker Cerebras: Their chips are truly massive,... more

21 May 2026

51 MINS

51:53

21 May 2026


#1209

Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

It is hard to have a markets conversation that isn't out of date within a minute or two. B... more

19 May 2026

28 MINS

28:54

19 May 2026


#1208

Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

Whether it's the price of a barrel of Brent crude or a pound of beef, it's clear prices ar... more

18 May 2026

30 MINS

30:49

18 May 2026


#1207

Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet

The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions ... more

16 May 2026

47 MINS

47:26

16 May 2026


#1206

Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back

Making a long career as a bear at a sell-side institution is tough. Generally financial ma... more

15 May 2026

53 MINS

53:58

15 May 2026


#1205

Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

Last year, when we talked to Martin Wolf, the global order seemed like it was being upende... more

14 May 2026

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:48

14 May 2026


#1204

Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

In 2006, then-Senator Ted Stevens coined an infamous term for how to understand the intern... more

13 May 2026

42 MINS

42:04

13 May 2026


#1203

The Bank of England's Megan Greene on Monetary Policy in a World of Supply Shocks

Ever since Covid, central banks around the world have had the same problem. They have tool... more

11 May 2026

52 MINS

52:49

11 May 2026


#1202

Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

Today's guest Mariana Mazzucato is one of our most requested. Mazzucato, a professor of ec... more

08 May 2026

55 MINS

55:58

08 May 2026


#1201

How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

The residents of Allentown are still sore about that Billy Joel song. While it's true the ... more

07 May 2026

52 MINS

52:15

07 May 2026