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FT Alphachat

FT Alphachat

Written by: Financial Times
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 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 irreverence than you'll find anywhere else

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Episodes
  • Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap

    Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap
    Jun 21 2019
    A number of geopolitical and financial risks are stalking the global economy, pointing to a possible recession in 2020. According to Nouriel Roubini, what is key among these risks is the US-China trade war and general protectionism in the global market. Izabella Kaminska talks to the economist and New York University Stern School of Business professor.

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    42 mins
  • Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession

    Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession
    Jun 14 2019
    The economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow talks to FT contributor Megan Greene about the fiscal policies that lawmakers could arrange now that would automatically kick in when some of the early signs of a slowdown start to appear.

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    41 mins
  • Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam

    Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam
    Jun 7 2019
    Man must work. But how man works matters. Brendan Greeley sat down with Joel Mokyr, an economist and economic historian at Northwestern University, at an event on the future of work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Policymakers tend to focus on the binary question of a job — do people have one, or not. But the quality of that work, the questions of meaning and satisfaction, are important to people, in a way that has political consequences. They wandered all the way back to Adam Smith, and eventually the curse of Adam himself, to talk about how the meaning and definition of "work" has changed, and why that matters now.

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    49 mins
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