FT Alphachat
FT Alphachat

FT Alphachat

Financial Times

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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, humour and irreverence than you'll find anywhere else

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Recent Episodes

Angela Nagle on the online culture wars
JUN 28, 2019
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 Jemima Kelly about the online culture wars and the rise of the alt-right. 
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37 MIN
Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap
JUN 21, 2019
Nouriel 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 Roubini, what is key among these risks is the US-China trade war and general protectionism in the global market...
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42 MIN
Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession
JUN 14, 2019
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 arrange now that would automatically kick in when some of the early signs of a slowdown start to appear.
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41 MIN
Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam
JUN 7, 2019
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 University, at an event on the future of work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Policymakers tend to focus on t...
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49 MIN
Will Davies on populism, data and experts
MAY 31, 2019
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-truth world.
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43 MIN