In mid-2021, Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, joined our podcast and was almost singular (compared to other experts) in predicting the inflation that we see today. Now, as we look back on 2022, he rejoins us with a somewhat more o

Why were so many Taylor Swift fans unable to secure tickets for her upcoming US tour?Possible explanations vary, but many have pointed to market power concentration in creative industries, and how i

We're taking the holiday off to be with our families, but that doesn't stop the economic news. And there is no story bigger than the collapse of the crypto exchange, FTX. One aspect that attracted our

Is the world better off now that Elon Musk owns Twitter? The $44 billion acquisition is the largest leveraged buyout of a technology company in history, and also the first time in well over a decade t

In June 2022, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said, "we [now] understand better how little we understand about inflation." So what do we actually know about inflation?In this episode, Luigi and

French economist Thomas Piketty is one of the leading intellectuals documenting inequality, with his 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century becoming widely read and cited. His new book, "A Br

Academics and policymakers alike draw a significant correlation between some of today's biggest problems - such as economic inequality - with rising corporate concentration and the ever-decreasing lac

Albert Wenger is Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, which has invested in some of today's most exciting technology companies. In his new book, The World After Capital", he argues that capital

Were taking a week off here at the end of the summer, but with Bidens recent student loan announcement we couldnt help but think back to our episode about student debt with Constatine Yannelis. B

Why have labor and productivity growth slowed?Software entrepreneur-turned-academic researcher, James Bessen, argues the problem isn't fewer productive startups, or M&A activity (which has actually