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FT Alphachat — 205 episodes

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Angela Nagle on the online culture wars

2

Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap

3

Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession

4

Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam

5

Will Davies on populism, data and experts

6

Robert Kaplan on jobs, oil and credit

7

Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier

8

Banking culture since the crisis

9

Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies

10

Alphachat Live! Raghuram Rajan and Ashley Putnam on community

11

The IMF's Tobias Adrian on stability

12

Bonus: IMF's Vitor Gaspar on debt

13

Odette Lienau on the most complicated debt restructuring in history

14

Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower"

15

Brexit: Too late now to get the milk out of the tea

16

Immigration: comparing this wave to the last

17

Andrew Keen on the internet: misery is not the answer

18

Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable?

19

What China wants: Brad Setser, and Freya Beamish

20

Germany's China shock

21

Peter Norton on the history of paying for big projects

22

Climate change is not a business cycle

23

Adam Tooze on Davos, econ 101 and the unexpected importance of China in the global economy

24

The history of what we now call opportunity zones

25

Olivier Blanchard on debt: “Relax. Don’t relax too much, but relax”

26

Adam Posen on central banks, China and the enduring power of the dollar

27

Robert Shiller: market narratives are 'like diseases'

28

What exactly is 'slack'?

29

Mariana Mazzucato on who creates value

30

The math wizard who became a customer loyalty scheme guru

31

Bill Janeway revisits the 'three-player game'

32

David Autor on what we now know about trade

33

Introducing Behind The Money

34

Sir Paul Tucker on the legitimacy of the central bank

35

Dan Drezner on the economics of ideas

36

Jim Millstein on lessons from the financial crisis

37

An encore chat with Geoffrey West

38

Encore: Alice Rivlin on a career as an economic policymaker

39

Benn Steil on The Marshall Plan

40

ENCORE: Andrew Lo on adaptive markets

41

The downside of the German economy

42

Emi Nakamura on the methods and madness of inflation

43

Stephanie Kelton on budget deficits and student debt

44

Jonathan Knee on becoming the "accidental" investment banker

45

ENCORE: 50 things that shaped the modern economy

46

Understanding the North Korean economy

47

Corporate tax and the trade balance

48

Thomas Wieser on his career in economic policy

49

ENCORE: The life of Alan Greenspan

50

Michele Wucker explains the 'gray rhino'

51

ENCORE: Keynes v Hayek

52

James Heckman on human capital development

53

Hernando de Soto on the economics of property rights

54

'The wisdom of finance'

55

Unorthodox economics

56

Hirschmania, the final chapter

57

We're taking a break for Thanksgiving

58

Who is Sadie Alexander?

59

The fiscal impact of US immigration

60

A sit down with Adair Turner

61

Stephen Kotkin on Stalin's economics

62

ENCORE: Why economic populists always disappoint

63

Richard Florida on geographic inequality

64

Hirschmania Part 2

65

Dan Drezner on the economics of ideas

66

The science behind our addictions to social media and tech

67

The economics of immigration

68

Bonus: Life beyond the pit

69

The making of the crisis in Venezuela

70

Should Amazon be broken up?

71

How well do immigrants integrate into American society?

72

Buchheit and Gulati on restructuring Venezuela's debt

73

"Don Draper has been drawn and quartered"

74

The cost of dodging the tax man

75

Michael Pettis on the Chinese economy

76

Michael Pettis on the mechanics and politics of trade

77

Encore episode: Angus Deaton on his Nobel Prize-winning career

78

50 things that shaped the modern economy

79

Encore episode: Heidi Williams on the economics of medical innovation

80

Sizing up US retail

81

On the verge of a productivity boom?

82

Ireland: austerity poster child or "beautiful freak"?

83

A chat with Geoffrey West

84

The new masters of craft

85

More from our interview with Anne Case

86

The life of an economic policymaker

87

Encore episode: Maria Konnikova on psychology, work, and why we all get conned

88

The life and ideas of Albert O. Hirschman

89

Inside Obama's economic policy shop

90

Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments

91

Anne Case on mortality and morbidity in the 21st century

92

Encore episode: Jim Chanos on betting against Wall Street

93

When (and when not) to get political as a company

94

How persuasion works in business, life and politics

95

Buy, sell or adapt

96

How economics has evolved since the crisis

97

Why Texas works

98

UBI in action, and the need for full employment

99

Why economic populists always disappoint

100

Radical economics, rethought

101

The Airbnb story

102

How the world was shaped by goofing off

103

Michael Mauboussin reflects on 30 years in the markets

104

An investor's playbook for turmoil

105

The social media we deserve

106

What we're watching in 2017

107

Econ film review: Trading Places

108

Gender, class and work, plus the financial year in review

109

Charley Ellis on the merits of index investing

110

A new age of language and truth

111

Keynes vs Hayek: NOW who's winning?

112

A Cuban dissident on Castro's death

113

Econ film review: Charlie Chaplin

114

The Trump economy

115

First comes job, then comes...?

116

The psychology behind what we do with our money

117

Alphachatterbox: The life of Alan Greenspan

118

Clinton's and Trump's tax plans, and the pound

119

Alphachatterbox: Tim Harford on the unheralded virtues of messiness

120

The economics of "social capital"

121

How to price in a Trump or Clinton presidency?

122

Forecasting the next-generation political economy

123

A trip through Trumpland

124

The drug price short

125

The protectionist policy controlling Canadian milk prices

126

The inaugural econ film review: Tron and Tron Legacy

127

Alphachatterbox: Heidi Williams on the economics of medical innovation

128

Alphachatterbox: Gavyn Davies and Tyler Cowen on the productivity puzzle

129

Tackling the housing 'trilemma', and the business of MMA

130

With all eyes on Brexit, what aren't we seeing?

131

Fact-checking Brexit claims with Tim Harford

132

Credit and crises, and the economic shocks of 2016 thus far

133

Social bonds served up at McDonald's, the US education divide, and a look at Wall St post-crisis

134

The economics of striking a work-life balance

135

Maria Konnikova on psychology, work, and why we all get conned

136

What's going on in hedge fund land?

137

Spotlight on the Australian economy

138

The life and times of Paul Volcker: Part 1

139

The life and times of Paul Volcker: Part 2

140

A private equity problem, and the economics of gangster states

141

America's savings problem and secrecy in South Dakota

142

Status-chasing economics, and the science of a good day

143

How Jamaica turned its debts around

144

How Greece restructured its debt

145

When a country defaults

146

When a country goes bankrupt

147

Underrated moments in economic history, and a stagnationist's outlook on the future

148

The quant episode

149

The only path to expertise, and what now for Disney's succession plan

150

The future of wearables and the downfall of two healthcare companies

151

Obama's trip to Cuba and and the new rich of emerging markets

152

Why workers hate open-plan offices, pricing in political risk and women in the global economy

153

A case for changing economic measures and a battle of stock exchanges

154

Super Tuesday special

155

Boardroom battles and the rise of Xiaomi

156

Fintech's search for a 'super-algo', and Mohamed El-Erian on avoiding the next collapse

157

The lasting damage of China's one-child policy and Theranos's precipitous fall from grace

158

China's debt and the Trump media paradox

159

How short-termism is misunderstood, millennials won't leave home and a battle of two Wall St bankers

160

A new era of cyber crime, market jitters and the race for the smartest car

161

Why Davos is more than one big party, privacy in an age of security and convenient tech and the economics of ageing

162

Halting 'eBay for guns', VR and smart shoes at CES and predictions for 2016

163

The stories from 2015 that will shape 2016

164

Dissident voices from Cuba, the Mexican border, and hip hop Broadway

165

What happens after rates rise, the shrinking middle class and pay equity

166

Future of BlackBerry, the renminbi and George Lucas’s gift to Chicago

167

The SUV sales boom, and an IMF success in Jamaica

168

Robots, artificial intelligence and a sluggish shopping season

169

More conversation with Sherry Turkle

170

The power of talk, and mythical startup valuations

171

Jon Stewart heads to HBO, what's going on with Bill Gross, and how we will age

172

Alphachat visits Angus Deaton, and a rush of pharma activity

173

Bernanke's legacy, surge in video streaming and Trudeau's global reach

174

A blockbuster beer deal, the business of podcasting and 'Foolproofing' the economy

175

Jack is back at Twitter, FT readers on the global economy, and more Martin Wolf

176

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President Xi's visit to the US, and the internet in Cuba

177

Martin Wolf, Robert Shiller and a tough week for biotechs

178

An abysmal Republican debate, YouTube stars, and the Fed holds

179

What happens when rates rise?

180

The promise (and the risks) of drones

181

Rewriting the rules with Joseph Stiglitz

182

China disrupts a sleepy August, and the problems for 'female Viagra'

183

People's QE, valuing Buzzfeed and Vox, and John Authers on the perils of index investing

184

Answering questions on millennials and money, Puerto Rico defaults and the fate of bank analysts

185

The Silo Effect, Nikkei buys the FT Group and an Alphavillian returns from Greece

186

The threat to Gawker, a big week for tech companies and the next turn in the Fifa scandal

187

The artisanal economy, campaign Twitter spats, and an inexplicable flash crash

188

The podcast renaissance

189

The FT Alphaville Christmas Podcast

190

Economic books of the year

191

Anat Admati and Frances Coppola on bank capital

192

An MF Global catchup

193

Pricing in the robots

194

Up Shibor creek with Michael Pettis

195

The rattle from collateral

196

Noah Smith on the Japanese economy

197

Abenomics edition

198

Alphachat: Lee Buchheit edition, featuring Lee Buchheit

199

That dang negativity edition

200

Alphachat: Dragons of Ljubljana edition

201

A cunning plan edition

202

A long chat about a bunch of stuff

203

Interview with Goldman’s Jan Hatzius

204

Sal Arnuk on high frequency trading

205

Michael Pettis on the Chinese economy