Ranked #1
China's debt and the Trump media paradox
China's debt and the Trump media paradox
Peking University professor Michael Pettis visits the FT to discuss the role that debt plays in the rebalancing of the C... Read more
5 Feb 2016
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49mins
Ranked #2
Alphachatterbox: Gavyn Davies and Tyler Cowen on the productivity puzzle
Alphachatterbox: Gavyn Davies and Tyler Cowen on the productivity puzzle
FT Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska leads Gavyn Davies, chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management and an FT blogger, and Tyler ... Read more
29 Jul 2016
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52mins
Ranked #3
Credit and crises, and the economic shocks of 2016 thus far
Credit and crises, and the economic shocks of 2016 thus far
During normal economic cycles, increasing credit hides an economy's deeper problems, but when a financial crisis hits, a... Read more
24 Jun 2016
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39mins
Ranked #4
A trip through Trumpland
A trip through Trumpland
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild spent five years in the Louisiana bayou as part of her study of the American right. Hochsch... Read more
6 Sep 2016
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24mins
Ranked #5
The Trump economy
The Trump economy
The US Alphaville team breaks down the potential macroeconomic and financial-market effects of a Trump presidency, with ... Read more
11 Nov 2016
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43mins
Ranked #6
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin's economics
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin's economics
Historian Stephen Kotkin joins Alphaville's Matt Klein to discuss how Joseph Stalin's violent commitment to Marxist-Leni... Read more
27 Oct 2017
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #7
How short-termism is misunderstood, millennials won't leave home and a battle of two Wall St bankers
How short-termism is misunderstood, millennials won't leave home and a battle of two Wall St bankers
Corporate short-termism, or a company's tendency to reduce internal investment and focus on share price and dividend pay... Read more
29 Jan 2016
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1hr 1min
Ranked #8
Michael Pettis on the mechanics and politics of trade
Michael Pettis on the mechanics and politics of trade
Economist Michael Pettis joins the FT’s Cardiff Garcia and Matt Klein to discuss the macroeconomic framework he introduc... Read more
28 Jul 2017
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53mins
Ranked #9
Keynes vs Hayek: NOW who's winning?
Keynes vs Hayek: NOW who's winning?
Cardiff Garcia sits down with Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, to d... Read more
2 Dec 2016
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #10
An MF Global catchup
An MF Global catchup
In this episode of Alphachat, Alphaville reporters Izabella Kaminska and David Keohane chat to repo market specialist Sc... Read more
25 Jul 2013
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36mins
Ranked #11
Should Amazon be broken up?
Should Amazon be broken up?
Lina Khan, a writer and fellow at New America, joins FT Alphaville's Alex Scaggs to discuss how the tech company's uniqu... Read more
31 Aug 2017
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43mins
Ranked #12
Forecasting the next-generation political economy
Forecasting the next-generation political economy
Forecasts about geopolitics and economics are often distorted by flawed institutional incentives and a range of cognitiv... Read more
14 Sep 2016
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44mins
Ranked #13
Noah Smith on the Japanese economy
Noah Smith on the Japanese economy
FT Alphaville's frankly frequent podcast continues with another look at Abenomics. This episode features Alphaville's Ca... Read more
25 Jun 2013
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54mins
Ranked #14
What's going on in hedge fund land?
What's going on in hedge fund land?
Many investors are questioning the benefit of allocating chunks of their money to hedge funds after recent bouts of fina... Read more
3 Jun 2016
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37mins
Ranked #15
Adam Tooze on Davos, econ 101 and the unexpected importance of China in the global economy
Adam Tooze on Davos, econ 101 and the unexpected importance of China in the global economy
Adam Tooze, economic historian and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, joins the FT’s... Read more
1 Feb 2019
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50mins
Ranked #16
Tackling the housing 'trilemma', and the business of MMA
Tackling the housing 'trilemma', and the business of MMA
What are the economic and social tradeoffs of deciding where to live and how can one measure these? An economist at the ... Read more
22 Jul 2016
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48mins
Ranked #17
Abenomics edition
Abenomics edition
In which Alphaville's David Keohane and Kate Mackenzie chat about Abenomics -- its progress, goals and endgame -- with C... Read more
22 May 2013
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26mins
Ranked #18
The psychology behind what we do with our money
The psychology behind what we do with our money
Researchers Colin Camerer and Cary Frydman recently uncovered new facts about the psychological and neuroscientific proc... Read more
28 Oct 2016
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39mins
Ranked #19
The quant episode
The quant episode
In an episode dedicated to investing and quantitative analysis, hosts Shannon Bond and Cardiff Garcia are joined by US m... Read more
15 Apr 2016
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43mins
Ranked #20
Why Davos is more than one big party, privacy in an age of security and convenient tech and the economics of ageing
Why Davos is more than one big party, privacy in an age of security and convenient tech and the economics of ageing
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos next week, replete with captains of industry and world... Read more
15 Jan 2016
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50mins