Nov 11

Vince Beiser | Copper Is The Wire Of Empire & We Don't Have Enough

Full Episode On Curious Worldview“In the next 25 years, the world will need more copper than in all of human history.”Amendment - I said 3.2 billion kg of copper in opening question, I should have said 320 million kg. In this episode, journalist and author Vince Beiser returns to ... Show More

41m 29s

Nov 4

Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World'

Full Episode On Curious WorldviewSubscribe to Chris Arnade's Substack - https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/Who is Chris Arnade!He started as a physicist, earning a PHD from Johns Hopkins and then took to Wall St spending two decades on an elite trading desk at CitiGroup before ... Show More

23m 37s

Oct 20

Sam Roggeveen | 'The Echidna Strategy' - Australian Defence & Military

Full Episode With Sam Roggeveen On The Curious WorldviewSam Roggeveen - The Echidna StrategyCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Sam Roggeveen coined The 'Echidna Strategy' - which is an on the nose metaphor for thinking about Australi ... Show More

48m 56s

Oct 2020

416: John Perkins | New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins (<a href="https://twitter.com/jperkinsauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@jperkinsauthor</a>) is an economist who has advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and the US government. He is the author of <a hr ... Show More

1h 3m

May 2024

BTC181: The US's Economic Hitman w/ John Perkins

John Perkins delves into his past as an economic hitman, explaining the mechanisms and impacts of his actions on global economies. He critiques the fiat system and its role in geopolitical strategies and debt creation. Perkins also explores the potential of Bitcoin and decentrali ... Show More

52m 39s

Aug 2023

How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment

The world economy has experienced many shocks over the past few years: A pandemic. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Skyrocketing inflation. These are the stories that have dominated headlines — and for good reason.But they’ve also overshadowed a set of deeper, more fundame ... Show More

1h 29m

Feb 2022

What the Heck Is Going on With the U.S. Economy?

Should we be celebrating a Biden boom? Lamenting inflation and its consequences? Both?We know how to talk about booms, like the ’90s. We know how to talk about busts, like after the financial crisis. We know how to talk about stagnation. What we don’t know how to talk a ... Show More

1 h

May 2021

Daniel Kahneman on Behavioral Economics (Podcast)

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with behavioral economics expert Daniel Kahneman, who wrote the bestselling book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and won the Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman is a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton Univer ... Show More

52m 56s

Apr 2021

Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone

Prepping for a conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom is intimidating. McMillan Cottom is a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a 2020 MacArthur fellow, co-host of the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hear-to-slay/id1549004673 ... Show More

1h 22m

May 2022

Common Sense Economics (Episode 142)

Discover how economics are understood as a series of tradeoffs. Our economic policies are too often convoluted with ingredients that stray from common sense. Matthew Hennessey joins Andy to discuss how you can cut through "magical thinking" and use economics to make better choice ... Show More

42m 6s

John Perkins | Lessons From The Confessi...