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- Ep 7: Alfonso Peccatiello on Italy, trading and career advice
Alfonso Peccatiello is the Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management at ING Deutschland. I talked to him about
- Why is Italy in trouble economically?
- How should you size positions while trading?
- Why do so many European institutions buy negative yielding bonds?
Alfonso gives some very good career advice at the end of the interview!
46 min - Why is Italy in trouble economically?
- Ep 6: Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarty on India’s political economy, debating and RCTs
Hemantha is a student at Harvard, who is currently working at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has worked with the India CEA and the RBI. We talk about
- What makes certain government schemes successful?
- Does being a debater make you more adversarial?
- How would he change RCTs?
1 hr 6 min - What makes certain government schemes successful?
- Ep 5: Mike Bird on journalism, property prices and central banking
Mike is starting at The Economist as Asia business and finance editor. We talk about
- What is the biggest flaw of journalists?
- How Hong Kong's land policy hurts its tech companies
- Why asset price "inflation" is nonsense
- Why Mike's not an MMTer but would like to see it tried anyways
BONUS: Mike reveals who he thinks will win the Euros!
51 min - Ep 4: Eli Dourado on think tanks, the Great Stagnation and regulation
We talk about
- Do think tanks actually have an impact?
- Should we loosen accredited investor regulations?
- Should more companies invest in public policy roles?
- What would he do if he could remake American federal regulation?
You can read Eli's writing at https://elidourado.com/
You can read my writing at http://brettongoods.substack.com/
54 min - Ep 3: Byrne Hobart on Socratic dialogue, pseudonyms and institutions
We talk about
- How to become a good generalist
- Why did America do so much better than Europe on vaccines?
- What happened to the media industry?
- His writing process
- Picking a media diet
- Why nobody writes in Socratic dialogue?
- The pseudonymous economy
- Where should ambitious people go?
56 min - Ep 2: Jeff Snider on the Monetary System
I talked to Jeff Snider on why he thinks QE doesn't matter, the usage of repo in financial markets and the global dollar shortage.
It was an entertaining conversation, and Jeff is very knowledgeable on these matters.
Subscribe to my podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5a29fQG0xEbPEdqSxQjMcQ
Read Jeff's writing here: https://alhambrapartners.com/author/jsnider/
54 min - Ep 1: Garett Jones on Democracy, The Senate and the Idea Pipeline
In this episode I interview Garett Jones on his book 10% Less Democracy. We talked about term limits, lobbying, the workings of the Senate and how do policies go from ideas to implementation.
Buy his book here: https://www.amazon.com/10-Less-Democracy-Should-Elites/dp/1503603571
Subscribe to my newsletter here: http://brettongoods.substack.com/
55 min
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I talk to the most interesting people about economic growth