Transcript: Dominique Mielle – The Big Picture
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Dominique Mielle, Damsel in Distressed, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is […]
When It Comes to Big Tech and Monopoly Power: Patience is a Virtue, Antitrust is a Vice
At the start of 2023, many in the tech sector and the venture capital world were coming to terms with lost money due to the hyper-growth strategies they’d employed over the past few years. It seems some IPO’d too soon, expanded too much, or were in need of a pivot to alternative revenue streams. As […]
Transcript: Maria Vassalou – The Big Picture
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Maria Vassalou, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This […]
Big Asian economies take on the forces of international capital—and win
Battling currency markets used to be considered unwise by central bankers and policymakers. Burning foreign-exchange reserves to take on the forces that push and pull a currency’s value was foolish, so the thinking went, and almost certainly futile. Orthodoxy held that a country seeking to defend its currency should raise interest rates, not sell reserves. […]
2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre EV – The Big Picture
The obvious question: Why should anyone care about a half a million dollar ultra luxe EV? Most obviously, there is no aspect of the auto industry that is immune from the trend toward electric. It’s faster, smoother, more linear in acceleration, and has found its way into everything from pickup trucks to luxo-barges. Second, all […]
Jeff Beck – The Big Picture
Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3kcbvr7 I met him. I talked to him. I saw him more than once. And he was the absolute best. It’s hard to imagine, but once upon a time “guitar hero,” “gunslinger,” was not a thing. Beck may have known who Cliff Gallup was, but we certainly did not. I certainly did not. […]
What inflation means for the Big Mac index
For much of the past two years, economists have argued fiercely about prices. As inflation in America and elsewhere has exceeded central-bank targets, analysts have dissected different components of the cost of living, including the prices of goods, services, energy and rents. Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your […]