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Don Wilson on the GPU Market's Trillion Dollar Question
Oct 19, 2026
When we spoke to Don Wilson, founder and CEO of DRW, in Chicago last year, he told us he wanted to build a market for GPUs that would eventually be bigger than oil. A year's time in the age of AI is…
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David Byrne Explains How Forgotten Ideas Come Back to Life
Oct 17, 2026
History is littered with ideas that have been tossed aside, only for them to gain relevance at some later date. Think of Moby-Dick: forgotten in Melville's time, but now regarded as the great…
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The French Political Crisis That's Turning Into a Debt Crisis
Oct 16, 2026
Just about everyone is worried about what is going on in France right now: the country's public finances are in sorry shape and there are fears that the French bond selloff, and the country's growing…
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Jeff Yan's Plan to Bring the Entire Financial Industry Onto Hyperliquid
Oct 15, 2026
Traders and market watchers around the world started talking about a crypto platform called Hyperliquid earlier this year, when speculators used markets built on top of it to trade crude oil after…
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Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All
Oct 12, 2026
Since the Hugging Face incident, concerns over AI doomsday scenarios has entered the mainstream. But of course, some people have been warning about this for years, long before LLMs or ChatGPT. In…
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How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics
Oct 09, 2026
Last month, OpenAI announced that it had produced an AI-generated proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most famous unsolved questions in mathematics. LLMs used to be bad at counting, but…
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Economic Problems in Europe
Oct 08, 2026
In so many conversations, there's a widespread view that Europe is falling behind. Or it's in trouble. It has been two years since the publication of the Draghi report and the problems the report…
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Why Treasuries Are 'Risky' Again
Oct 05, 2026
We all know that US Treasury yields have been surging, alongside bond yields all around the world. So what explains the selloff and does this mean that bonds are becoming fundamentally riskier? What…
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How Airlines Actually Hedge Higher Fuel Prices
Oct 02, 2026
Fuel is a huge expense for airlines, and even on a good day, jet fuel prices are pretty volatile. Throw in two major wars now effecting energy infrastructure, and fuel prices across the board are…
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Everything in Markets Is Now Moving Incredibly Fast
Oct 01, 2026
The market is acting in ways that make it very hard to get a handle on what exactly is going on right now. The overall indices are surging, while many individual stocks are doing badly. Rates are…
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Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque
Sep 28, 2026
Bill McBride did not just predict the 2008 housing bubble, he helped invent financial blogging with his Calculated Risk newsletter. Zach Lasry, meanwhile, is much newer to the scene, but in his…
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Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse
Sep 25, 2026
Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place in Los Angeles. And people are freaked out about AI. But according to Hayes Davenport, things were starting to…
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AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally
Sep 24, 2026
Social media is really strange these days: Increasingly, our feeds are starting to look uncanny, as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. And for the professionals who are tasked with making…
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How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub
Sep 21, 2026
The story you hear nowadays is that America is struggling to make things and can't compete with China when it comes to advanced manufacturing. But of course, there's tons of high-tech stuff being…
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Introducing: Bloomberg Money
Sep 20, 2026
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A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los Angeles
Sep 19, 2026
We're in an era of megadeals, with Goldman Sachs reporting a record year for big deal volumes as companies scramble to compete with AI. Gene Sykes has seen multiple deal cycles come and go over his…
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There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America
Sep 18, 2026
In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. It was tricky to figure out how much these sorts of…
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What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'
Sep 17, 2026
Francis Fukuyama's essay “The End of History?” was published in the summer of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The essay's argument — that liberal democracy would not only…
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Doing Business in the Wake of Hugging Face
Sep 14, 2026
According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, the models that escaped their sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's servers had yet to go through alignment training. That they were able to break free…
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Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of Copper
Sep 12, 2026
Copper demand is booming, with the metal surging another 15% this year. Copper demand has always been tightly linked to economic activity, but now it's in overdrive, thanks to data centers, electric…
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Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real
Sep 11, 2026
Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater Associates, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund’s AI strategy. As…
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The Rise of Organized Retail Crime at Big Box Stores
Sep 10, 2026
If you walk into a local pharmacy in New York City, more likely than not, lots of the merchandise is locked behind closed doors as a measure to mitigate shoplifting. So how big is the “retail shrink”…
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Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills
Sep 07, 2026
Hardly anyone nowadays seems to carry much cash, never mind carrying around a bunch of $100 bills. So why does the amount of physical cash in circulation — especially big denominations like the $100…
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Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense
Sep 04, 2026
Our guest today is Colonel Sanders. More precisely, we speak with Wayne Sanders, a retired US army colonel who is currently senior defense research analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. During his…
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What's Behind the Big Surge in US Government Bond Yields
Sep 03, 2026
Global bond yields are at their highest level since 2008, with the 30-year US Treasury touching 5% just before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a surprise increase of his department's bond…
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Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed
Sep 01, 2026
Kevin Warsh gave a hawkish speech at this year's annual Kansas City Fed Symposium in Jackson Hole, but that doesn't mean the challenges are over. Will the Fed actually pull the trigger on rate hikes?…
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Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy
Aug 31, 2026
The implications of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech are pretty clear: Traders expect a rate hike given the hawkish hints littered in his address, largely focused on inflation. There are…
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Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating
Aug 28, 2026
Inflation remains high and the 2% target is farther away than it was this time last year. There are signs all over that the economy is overheating — the strange labor market where hiring and firing…
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Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid on the First Jackson Hole of the Warsh Era
Aug 27, 2026
We are back in Jackson Hole! And this year's Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium on monetary policy might be one of the most interesting editions in years. It marks the first under new Fed…
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The Nigerian Industrial Behemoth That Could Reshape the African Economy
Aug 24, 2026
Earlier in August, it was reported that Nigeria's Dangote Refinery secured a $1 billion underwriting for its upcoming stock market listing, which is set to become Africa's largest IPO. Indeed, the…
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