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Raghuram Rajan: Why The Banking Crisis Isn’t Over
April 06, 2023

Several questions continue to swirl around the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and its larger implications. In this special episode, Chicago Booths Raghuram Rajan former Governor of the Reserve Ban

Are The Twitter Files A Scandal?
March 30, 2023

On this episode, Bethany and Luigi discuss the recent release of the "Twitter Files" a collection of internal Twitter documents released publicly by new CEO Elon Musk that reveal the company's inter

SVB: The End of Banking as We Know It?
March 16, 2023

We had initially prepared an entirely different episode for today, but last week's Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the largest in U.S. history since 2008, meant a quick change of plans.What happened?

The Capitalisn't Of Consulting: McKinsey And Beyond
March 02, 2023

Any discussion about the costs and benefits of capitalism is incomplete without a conversation about the costs and benefits of consulting, especially global consulting behemoth McKinsey & Company. The

ProMarket: Why Martin Wolf Changed His Mind on Milton Friedman
February 23, 2023

ProMarket, the sister publication of Capitalisn't at Chicago Booth's Stigler Center, has been hosting thought leadership on political economy, competition, antitrust, special interests, and more since

Martin Wolf: Is Capitalism Killing Democracy?
February 16, 2023

Martin Wolf is a renownedFinancial Timescolumnist, and his new book isThe Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. In it, he argues that liberal democracy and market capitalism are inextricably linked an

Google: The New Vampire Squid? With Dina Srinivasan
February 09, 2023

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a second landmark antitrust lawsuit against Google, targeting its monopoly in the online advertising marketplace. To simplify the apparent complexity of the case – and to understand why and how it matters t

The End Of China’s Miracle?
February 02, 2023

China's emergence from its stringent zero-COVID policy seems to be the opposite of controlled and competent, two words that have otherwise been frequently used to describe its balancing act between capitalism and one-party rule. Beyond this, we are witnes

Shattering Immigration Myths: Data Beyond Borders
January 19, 2023

Earlier this month, Joe Biden made his first visit to the southern United States border as President, after two years of back-and-forth over his administration's immigration policy. While the cost-benefit debate of immigration has always been politically

Revisiting The Meritocracy Debate With Adrian Wooldridge And Michael Sandel
January 05, 2023

For the beginning of the year, we are revisiting two previous yet timely conversations, with Adrian Wooldridge (author of "The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World") and Michael Sandel (author of "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Becom