This week, Caroline Hyde sat down with Allergan Chief Executive Brent Saunders for a wide-ranging interview as part of our CEO Spotlight Series. Saunders discussed high drug prices, selling Allergan to rival AbbVie for $63 billion, why his best career decision was taking a "huge" pay cut and what's coming next for him after the AbbVie deal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CEO Spotlight on Allergan's Brent Saunders

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This week, Jon Huntley, senior economist at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, came on to discuss the budgetary and economic impact of the infrastructure package. Rune Christensen, the co-founder of MakerDAO, joined to talk DeFi and decentralized stable coins. Zvi Schreiber, the CEO and founder of Freightos, an internet marketplace for the trillion-dollar international freight market, came on to talk about his new book: "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and Thee Mystery of its Decline" and why he thinks fiat currency is having a midlife crisis. Then John Gerner, the managing director at the consulting group Leisure Business Advisors, reacted to Disney earnings and explained why he was impressed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fiat Currency is Having a Midlife Crisis

Serial SPAC dealmaker Betsy Cohen joined to talk about finding her seventh target, Pico, a New York-based technology provider for financial services companies that merged with FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. in a $1.75 billion blank-check company deal. Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, came on to discuss the cryptocurrency amendment holding up the infrastructure package and why she is trying to narrow the language of the provision. Adam Ozimek, the chief economist at Upwork, outlined his latest report titled, "The Great Resignation" about the lasting impacts of the pandemic on the labor market. Then Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, reacted to their second quarter earnings and talked about the impact of the Delta variant on the travel rebound. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Serial SPAC-er Betsy Cohen Finds Her Seventh Target

This week, NYU Stern School of Business finance professor Aswath Damodaran, joined to talk about why corporate earnings reports and regulatory filings keep getting longer, and why it's not necessarily a good thing for investors. Professor Damodaran explained why he thinks we are having a "disclosure dilemma" with all of this additional corporate data leading to even less information. Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti went through the global art market boom in everything from NFTs to jewelry and explained what's driving consumers back in record numbers. Then Steve Cadigan, who formerly served as the vice president of people at LinkedIn, joined to talk about his new book, "Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of COVID-19 to Create a Better Model of Working," and what's behind that massive churn in the labor market driving high levels of job openings and resignations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Companies Have Lost the Distinction Between Data and Information

This week, Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein joined to react to bitcoin's selling off below $30,000 and said crypto investors are used to the volatility. Chairman and CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage Mat Ishbia went through this week's housing data and explained why he thinks the housing market will stay hot. Nicole Perrin, an emarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence came on to talk about Twitter and Snapchat's earnings and the pandemic boom in digital advertising. Then Willy Shih, a management practice professor at Harvard Business School, discussed the ongoing global chip crisis and whether anything other than time itself can mitigate the shortage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crypto Investors Are Used to Volatility

This week, Binance.US CEO Brian Brooks joined along with Bloomberg Wall Street correspondent Sonali Basak to talk about hiring ex-regulator Manuel Alvarez and why regulation does not have to be a bad thing for the crypto space. Alyse Killeen, the founding managing partner at StillMark, the first Bitcoin-specific venture capital firm, discussed investing in bitcoin. Rick Palacios, principal and director of research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, came on to talk about the housing market and why it's still so difficult to find building materials. Then Octahedron Capital Management founder Ram Parameswaran, who has been a very consistent bull on the Chinese tech sector, discussed whether Beijing's crackdown has made him rethink that stance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CEO Spotlight on Allergan's Brent Saunders

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