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A podcast about real assets. Infrastructure, real estate, commodities and energy in the listed and private markets. Global trends in the market for physical things.

When we spoke with Greenland’s Foreign Minister Pele Broberg on his country’s efforts to secure greater economic and political self-determin...

In the spring of 2021, a controversial rare earth metals mining project proposed in Greenland thrust the island’s “kitchen-table economic is...

This is Part 3 of a five-part series, Polar Futures, produced by Investable Universe in 2021. When discussing the emerging Arctic economy, t...

This is Part 2 Investable Universe's five-part Polar Futures series produced in 2021. The next-phase of the Arctic region’s economic evoluti...

This is a special series produced by Investable Universe in 2021 as Polar Futures. For perspectives on the strategic challenges and opportun...

By 2030, there will be over 15 million tons of lithium-ion batteries ready for recycling, containing over $18bn just in the battery element...

Recovery from the economic impacts of covid-19 has meant supply chain bottlenecks, worker shortages and rising building costs to major citie...

Entrepreneur-investor Will Zell has made a mark in technology, real estate and other sectors. In 2014, he co-founded manufacturing disruptor...

With tens billions of venture capital money being directed at agtech startups in recent years, how different will farming and agriculture lo...

...If you thought (as we did) that space ridesharing (a la SpaceX or BlueOrigin) was the end-all, be-all of the emerging space transportatio...

Attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure, from small but potentially lethal attacks on municipal water systems to this spring's Colonial Pipe...

California's OHMConnect has a cool take on smart energy: the company's mobile platform, which functions like a "virtual power plant," pays u...

Last year's covid-related market dislocations made gold shine as the preferred "flight-to-safety" trade. This year, with vaccination rollout...

Solutions to global issues like climate change and energy transition, and the advancement of emerging fields like quantum computing and ethi...

Investable Universe takes a minor detour in this episode: while we've talked about tokenization and digitalization of real assets on several...

Why hasn't the United States embraced the potential of geothermal energy like other countries have? This question vexed Kathy Hannun, former...

As the global economy transitions to renewable sources, along with new applications in fuel cell batteries, in electric vehicles, and rocket...

Are boom times ahead for the global graphite market? An essential component in EV batteries and energy storage, in smart materials and Inter...

A 2020 report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (cited by MIT Technology Review) found that from 2013-2019, early-stage venture capital funding in...

Sukhi Jutla is co-founder and COO of MarketOrders, which has developed and scaled a highly practical and relevant retail application for blo...

We recorded this episode just over a week after a near-collapse of the Texas power grid following an unusual winter storm that was, in many...

Cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance are approaching more mainstream adoption, and presenting new challenges to financial sector integ...

The future is here...and it's pressurized! American entrepreneur and inventor Matt Villareal leads a pioneering company, Infinite Composites...

In recent years, the number of publicly traded companies has sharply contracted, while startups have tended to stay private for longer. One...

Creativity doesn't stop after age 30. Gary Griffiths is a former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine intelligence officer and longtime Silicon Valle...

Gold was one of the market winners of 2020 (with one of the lowest drawdowns over the course of the year), aided by a heightened risk enviro...

Over the past year(s), farmers have navigated not just the challenges of covid-19, but also a tough environment for trade and tariffs with f...

What does the ability to buy, sell and trade houses (or fractions of houses) online say about the way Americans are thinking and acting arou...

Real estate and venture investor Rahim Amidi has a success story straight out of Hollywood...and Palo Alto. One of the founders and principa...

Economic effects of the covid year 2020 have been expressed in a variety of ways in commercial real estate, with sectors like hotels and bri...

Chris Rawley is the founder and CEO of agriculture finance platform Harvest Returns. Their platform allows investors to buy fractional share...

Real estate developer and investor Edward Mermelstein has been a dealmaker in New York City luxury real estate for several decades, and a le...

AltoIRA is an investment "platform-of-platforms" that allows holders of individual retirement accounts to use their IRA funds to invest in s...

2020 looked nothing like anyone expected. Among the many who’ve had a difficult job of navigating this environment are investors and risk ma...

An Icelandic startup, IceWind, has an ingenuous approach to industrial materials and design that allows a vertical axis wind turbine to prov...

This episode features Vincent Zurzolo, co-owner of New York's Metropolis Collectibles, the world's largest vintage comic book dealership, an...

Geospatial technologies, or earth mapping capabilities, have long been in use in military intelligence and defense. Today, they’re being dep...

Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson speaks about the imperative for "building back better" through global cooperation in the post-covid...

A highly successful secondary offering earlier this fall by Icelandair, a rapidly growing sustainable corporate bond market, a promising pip...

Iceland notches consistently high ratings on global business and societal indexes, and measures of competitiveness, education, human develop...

When this year’s covid-related social and economic disruptions put a stop to venture capital roadshows, one Israeli investment firm knew exa...

John Ellis has been in around the news business (and the American political establishment) for most of his adult life, working for NBC News,...

Publicly traded net-lease REIT pioneer W.P. Carey pioneered the sale-leaseback for real estate investment 50 years ago in the U.S., and has...

Investment startup FarmTogether , which has received backing from Franklin Templeton Legg Mason and several venture capital partners, gives...

Bitcoin: Political protest vote, futuristic commodity, arcane fade, environmental conundrum, or genuine portfolio hedge--it's outperformed a...

Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud, former Boston-Power CEO, founder and CEO of Cadenza Innovation, is a world-renowned expert on battery architect...

In August, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted its first-ever design certification of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR)...

The global farmland market has been valued at $9 trillion, $2.5 trillion of which is situated in the United States. While institutional owne...

Nickel--a scarce and environmentally burdensome metal that is needed for EV car batteries-- has become a headline commodity of late. Prices...

In August, HSBC announced a new joint venture with climate impact advisory and "natural capital" investment group Pollination. The two firms...