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FT Alphachat

Alphachat is the conversational podcast about business and economics produced by the Financial Times in New York. Each week, FT hosts and guests delve into a new theme, with more wonkiness, humour and... Read more

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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

49mins

Ranked #2

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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

52mins

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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

39mins

Ranked #4

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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

24mins

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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

43mins

Ranked #6

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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

1hr 18mins

Ranked #7

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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

1hr 1min

Ranked #8

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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

53mins

Ranked #9

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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

1hr 7mins

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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

36mins

Ranked #11

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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

43mins

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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

44mins

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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

54mins

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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

37mins

Ranked #15

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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

50mins

Ranked #16

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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

48mins

Ranked #17

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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

26mins

Ranked #18

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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

39mins

Ranked #19

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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

43mins

Ranked #20

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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

50mins

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