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2021-09-06

  Patrick O'Shaughnessy on the Next Big Thing in Passive Investing

Passive investing is kind of boring. You dump your money in an index fund and that's it. The industry hasn't really seen big innovation since ETFs were invented in the 1990s. Enter custom indexing. Custom indexing allows asset managers to create bespok... 		  Bloomberg author
2021-09-02

  Omair Sharif Explains How Inflation Measures Really Work

When people think about what inflation is, they might first think about some broad index like the CPI. What does the the CPI really tell us? And how is it constructed? And how much does its rise and fall relate to the state of the macro-economy? On thi... 		  Bloomberg author
2021-08-30

  How Solana and Pyth Aim To Take DeFi to the Next Level

There's obviously a lot of interest in crypto and DeFi these days. And while it's growing rapidly, it's still not cutting much into traditional finance business lines. For the most part, trading on blockchains is slow and costly. But some projects don'... 		  Bloomberg author
2021-08-26

  Mitu Gulati and Ugo Panizza on Haiti’s Odious Post-Colonial Debt

Nearly 200 years ago, the colonialist French power granted independence to Haiti. But it did so under the brutal condition that it pay 150 million francs in exchange for its freedom. This was a staggering sum that imposed a staggering imposition on the... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author
2021-08-23

  A Conversation With Ajmal Ahmady, Afghanistan’s Former Central Bank Chief

Over the last week and a half, the world has watched in shock at the dizzying speed of the collapse in Afghanistan. Events are still unfolding, so the future remains extremely uncertain. One former official who has been outspoken in recent days is Ajma... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author
2021-08-19

  David Woo on What the Economists Got Wrong About the Stimulus

David Woo has always been one of the most outspoken voices on the street. A former top strategist at Bank of America, he is now publishing independently at his new site David Woo Unbound. On this episode, he argues that the mainstream economists are ge... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author
2021-08-16

  Neel Kashkari on the Fed’s Quest To Get To Full Employment

The last two jobs reports have been strong, but the unemployment rate remains over 5%. And by some estimates, the economy is still 8 million jobs shy of where it would have been had it not been for the crisis. So when will the Fed declare "victory" in ... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author
2021-08-12

  Brent Donnelly on What It Takes To Be a Winning Trader

The last 18 months has seen an incredible influx of people getting into trading. Thanks to a combination of Robinhood, a bull market, and perhaps more free time, trading is part of popular culture to a degree we haven't seen in over two decades. But wh... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author
2021-08-09

  Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on the Economy and Monetary Policy Right Now

The economy is in uncharted territory in more ways that one right now. Coming out of the worst of the pandemic, we're seeing a rapid pace of GDP growth, along with elevated inflation readings the likes of which we haven't seen in years. Beyond that, po... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author
2021-08-05

  Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How the Crypto Market Really Works

Sam Bankman-Fried is arguably the most important and powerful person in crypto. His crypto exchange FTX just raised $900 million and is growing like crazy. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Matt Levine probably knows more about market structure th... 		  Bloomberg and iHeartRadio author