Angela Nagle on the online culture wars
Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right, talks to FT Alphaville's Jem...
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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,...
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20 of 206 episodesNouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap
A number of geopolitical and financial risks are stalking the global economy, pointing to a possible recession in 2020. According to Nouriel...
Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession
The economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow talks to FT contributor Megan Greene about the fiscal policies that lawmakers could ar...
Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam
Man must work. But how man works matters. Brendan Greeley sat down with Joel Mokyr, an economist and economic historian at Northwestern Univ...
Will Davies on populism, data and experts
The political economist sits down with Alphaville's Jamie Powell and Thomas Hale to discuss how we should think about expertise in a post-tr...
Robert Kaplan on jobs, oil and credit
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas sits down with Brendan Greeley to discuss what a tight labour market could mean for retr...
Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier
What if the vast majority of the high-growth tech unicorns emerging from Silicon Valley are not really technology or innovation companies? W...
Banking culture since the crisis
How has banking culture changed since the global financial crisis and what areas still need work? Brendan Greeley talks with three economics...
Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies
Economist Kimberly Clausing tells Brendan Greeley and Mark Blyth why greater trade, capital flows and immigration are the solution to more e...
Alphachat Live! Raghuram Rajan and Ashley Putnam on community
Until recently, economists have ignored the idea that communities matter for economic outcomes, leaving those questions to sociologists. But...
The IMF's Tobias Adrian on stability
Tobias Adrian, formerly of the New York Fed, runs the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund. Brendan an...
Bonus: IMF's Vitor Gaspar on debt
On the occasion of the release of the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Monitor, Brendan talked to Vitor Gaspar, who runs the fund's Fisc...
Odette Lienau on the most complicated debt restructuring in history
Law professor Odette Lienau joins Colby and Brendan on the sidelines of the IMF spring meetings in Washington, DC to discuss the sovereign d...
Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower"
Alphaville's Jemima Kelly and Izabella Kaminska sat down with Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and current organiser of a...
Brexit: Too late now to get the milk out of the tea
No matter what the British Parliament decides, for almost three years the UK, Ireland and the EU have been dealing with the reality of the L...
Immigration: comparing this wave to the last
Leah Boustan of Princeton and Maggie Peters of UCLA look at the wave of migrants to the US from Central America and compare it to the last g...
Andrew Keen on the internet: misery is not the answer
Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur and more recently How to Fix the Future , sits down with FT Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska. They...
Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable?
Forget Brexit. Growth in the eurozone is slowing down, but not equally for all countries. Which leaves the continent with the same question...
What China wants: Brad Setser, and Freya Beamish
Even if the trade talks are settled, long-term friction will remain between China and the United States. China has an industrial policy whic...
Germany's China shock
Answering the question of whether Germany's export-driven model will ever change, and whether Germany's obsession with saving and budget sur...