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Let's Appreciate — 197 episodes

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Why You Can't Cancel Anything and What to Do About It with Commissioner Sam Levine

2

Gina Raimondo on the Future for Workers in the AI Economy

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Is AI Going to Destroy our Lives or Not?

4

The Ozempicization of the Economy

5

The Great Entertainment

6

San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly and Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin on What's Actually Happening in the Economy

7

Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy

8

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee on What the Job Market Is Really Telling Us

9

Who's Getting Rich Off Your Attention?

10

Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack on the Risks Markets Are Missing Now

11

Gamblemerica: How Sports Betting Apps Rewired a Generation's Relationship to Risk

12

DeepSeek, the Federal Spending Freeze, and America’s Innovation Crisis

13

The Year Narrative Ate Reality

14

Trust as the Next Great Commodity

15

Thanksgiving to Black Friday: The Beauty of Supply Chains

16

Understanding Trump's Tariffs

17

Why Everything is Still Expensive: A Fed President Explains

18

How Donald Trump Won and What Happens Next for the Economy

19

Comparing Economic Policies: Harris vs. Trump - A Deep Dive

20

What the Longshoremen Strike Means for the Economy

21

How Dating Apps Contribute to the Demographic Crisis

22

Home Insurance is a Really Big Problem

23

How Do We Fix the Economy?

24

Why The Markets Are So Dramatic

25

September Rate Cut?

26

Austan Goolsbee on the Fed's Data Dependence and the Golden Path

27

Rewriting the Story of Housing in America

28

No, We Aren't in a Recession (But We Might Be in a Crisis)

29

What's Going on with Inflation?

30

The $2 Billion Dollar Story of Bluey

31

When You Destroy the Tools of Creativity

32

Here's How We Fix the Housing Crisis

33

Why We Don't Trust Each Other Anymore

34

Is Wall Street Destroying the American Dream?

35

2024 Outlook: Rate Cuts and the Influencer Apocalypse

36

Uncertainty and the Federal Reserve

37

It's More Than Just Vibes

38

Oh My, OpenAI (An Explainer)

39

How Social Media Shapes Economic Perception

40

The TikTok Girl is Right: Modernity and the 9-to-5

41

The Bond Markets are Going Crazy: What does this mean?

42

The Mr Beastification of the Economy

43

San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly on New Normals

44

Lessons From Biking 245 miles Across France

45

How Unions are Changing The Economy (WGA, UAW, and More)

46

Why Daycare is So Expensive in America

47

Fragmentation, Polarization, and the Marshmallow Test

48

Yes, Treasury Direct Sucks - But Bonds Rock

49

Consumerism and The Century of the Self

50

Here's Why China's Economy is Going to Fail

51

The Real Ownership Economy

52

Why Do People Think the Economy is Bad?

53

The U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade

54

How Taylor Swift Saved the Economy

55

Is the Vibecession Over?

56

The Similarities Between Barbie/Oppenheimer and Elon Musk's X Rebrand

57

Gen Z and Financial Nihilism

58

Gen Z and the Future of Work

59

We Don't Need to Destroy the Economy to Save It

60

The Economic Perception Model

61

The Impending Commercial Real Estate Crash

62

The Nostalgia Cycle Loop

63

Preserving Optionality and Other Things

64

The Time Premium

65

Why Some People Want the World to End

66

What Happens When Information Overwhelms Knowledge?

67

Another Bank Failed

68

The Attention Economy

69

What does Gen Z really think about work?

70

The Economics of Self-Commodification

71

The Cure for the Housing Crisis

72

AI Can't Plant Corn (Yet)

73

The Other Side of the Banking Crisis

74

Credit Suisse and the Fed's Next Move

75

The Takeconomy

76

The Fed's "Bailout" of Silicon Valley Bank

77

The Downfall of Silicon Valley Bank

78

Labor Market vs Inflation

79

Why the Data Makes No Sense

80

Interview with Mary Daly, President and CEO of San Francisco Federal Reserve

81

No-Landing and the Anti-gravity Economy

82

Margin and Opportunity

83

TikTok's CoreCore and the Federal Reserve

84

Reversion to Reality: How Big Tech Impacts the Economy

85

What Even is a "Mild" Recession?

86

The Eggconomy

87

Why the Fed Might Want You to Lose Your Job

88

Mind the Cup

89

2022 was Really Weird

90

A Non-Zero Interest Rate World

91

Language, Loneliness, and AI

92

SBF says "sorry! risk management is kinda hard lol"

93

Why The Fed is Wrong about the Labor Market

94

DCG, Multicellular Organisms, and Fed Minutes

95

Elon Musk, The FTX Saga, and the Federal Reserve

96

Somehow, FTX is Worse than Enron

97

Full Summary of the FTX Spiral and Collapse

98

FTX, Inflation, and Things That Keep Happening

99

What is Happening with FTX and Binance?

100

Intention vs Impact: Jerome Powell & Elon Musk

101

What is the Federal Reserve Doing?

102

A Bird in the Hand: Elon Musk, Misinformation, and Twitter

103

Who is Driving the Economic Car?

104

The Fed’s Goal? Getting the Economy on a Sustainable Path

105

Cathie Wood & Clay Gardner - The Challenge of Democratizing Finance

106

We Have More Data Than Ever - So Why is it so Confusing?

107

Bailey's Policy - "Get Your Sh*t Together"

108

Pumpkin Policy and Dollarominos

109

Why The Fed Wants a Weaker Jobs Market

110

Credit Suisse: Great Financial Crisis 2.0?

111

The United Kingdom: Fiscal Policy Meets Monetary Policy

112

Everything Going on in the Economy Right Now

113

The Federal Reserve's Inflation Battle

114

The Federal Reserve's Secret Weapon

115

The Ethereum Merge and the Energy Crisis

116

Everyone is Impacted by the Energy Crisis

117

Quiet Quitting is Actually Quite Loud

118

How Sensationalism Drives the Stock Market

119

The Inflation Narrative

120

How Social Media Drives the Economy

121

The Semantics of a Recession

122

Inflation, Oil, and the Federal Reserve

123

Investing in an Inflationary Environment

124

What is Going On with Inflation?

125

Jobs in Finance Explained | A Guide

126

We are not in a Recession

127

The Vibecession: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

128

What is the Most Important Part of the Economy?

129

Do we need a Recession?

130

Food Insecurity and the Baby Formula Crisis

131

UST and USD: Everything is Monetary Policy

132

Dichotomy in the Golden Age of Fraud

133

Solutions are the Problem

134

Elon Musk: The Power of F*ck Around and Find Out

135

The Disruption of Stability

136

Wealth Inequality, The Federal Reserve, and Crypto

137

The Distortion and Disruption of Narratives (Things are Weird)

138

Pricing Agriculture Risk | Interview with Grant Cavanaugh

139

One Month: The War in Ukraine

140

Rising Tides: The Science of Salmon Investing

141

High Gas Prices: Gouging or Geopolitics?

142

Taking Some Sense to Make a Nickel

143

Financial Warfare: Russia-Ukraine

144

What You Need to Know about the Russia-Ukraine War So Far

145

The Blaring Horn of Bonds

146

Geopolitical Instability and What Happens Next

147

Irrational Idealism: Inflation and the Federal Reserve

148

The Polarization of Crypto Narrative

149

The Global Energy Crisis

150

The Fed Just Shook the Markets - Why?

151

What is the Stock Market... Doing?

152

Russia, Ukraine, and the Impact on Global Energy Markets

153

Narratives, Reflexivity, and Market Go Down

154

Tipping Dominoes in Kazakhstan: Corruption, Uranium, and Crypto

155

What is Going on in Kazakhstan?

156

Do Price Controls Destroy the Economy?

157

These 5 Stocks are the Entire Stock Market

158

What is Web3? (and why does Jack Dorsey hate it?)

159

Geopolitics is a Mess - Why?

160

Why Don't Things Make Sense?

161

Why The Economy Is Too Hot

162

Everything You Need to Know about The Stock Market

163

Inflation is Here - What Happens Next?

164

The Ukraine-Russia Situation

165

A Very In-depth Explanation of the Evergrande Implosion

166

A Summary of the Stock Market

167

A Brief History on Economic Theory (aka no one ever knew what was going on)

168

A Brief Introduction into Crypto

169

The World is Falling Apart?

170

A Summary of the Stock Market

171

Why are Gasoline Prices so High?

172

The Economic Importance of the Federal Reserve

173

Should You Even Invest in the Stock/Crypto Market?

174

What Could Crash the Housing Market?

175

The Most Important Inflation Metric That You've Never Heard Of

176

The Infrastructure Bill - Is it Actually Good?

177

The Huge Opportunity of DAOs

178

Why the Stock Market (and Crypto) Won't Go Up Forever

179

Will Inflation Destroy Everything?

180

How Does the Internet Work?

181

The Growth Story of Roblox (and what's next)

182

How Elon Musk Moves Markets

183

Why Speculation Drives Markets

184

The Federal Reserve | Is Inflation Really Transitory?

185

Stablecoins | Everything You Need To Know

186

The Metaverse | Everything You Need to Know

187

Supply Chains | Everything You Need to Know

188

Why Money isn't Real

189

The Core: The Importance of Connectors

190

volmaggedon and the rise of passive

191

consumption on-demand | the peril of the consumer

192

the theories of interconnectivity

193

supply chains and stucky bois

194

Cambrian Explosion 2.0

195

ownership but also wtf are nfts

196

luxury goods and social investing apps

197

collective belief is the new free cash flow