Look Forward

With 2024 rapidly coming to a close, we at The Essential Podcast decided to reflect on our favorite lessons of the year. Listen along as we walk down memory lane, reliving pieces of our most insightful conversations this year.

Referenced Episodes:

• Better Faster Farther: Maggie Mertens and the Evolution of Women's Sports
• Making Sense of Chaos – An Interview with J. Doyne Farmer
• Overcoming AI Skepticism With Sudeep Kesh
• Making Sense of Oil Markets with Andy Critchlow
• Coronation And Collapse, The Story Of The Bond King With Mary Childs
• The Price of Energy Transition with Brett Christophers

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• S&P Global Look Forward Report

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

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This week, Nathan is joined by Brigid Schulte, author of "Overwork: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life." Together, the duo discusses the challenges of modern work life and explore innovative solutions to combat overwork.

Brigid Schulte:

• Book: Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• S&P Global Look Forward Report

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

Nathan sits down with Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge Sir David Spiegelhalter to discuss his new book "The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck." Together, the pair covers nuances of probability, risk, and luck; as well as examine the way we understand the data surronding our everyday lives.

David Spiegelhalter:

• Book: "The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck"

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• S&P Global Look Forward Report

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

Nathan Hunt sits down with historian and author Richard Overy to discuss his latest book, "Why War." Together, the pair explores the nature of conflict and it's persistent presence in human life, examining its potential roots through a variety of lenses.

Rchard Overy:

• Book: "Why War" (Publisher W.W. Norton & Company)

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• S&P Global Look Forward Report

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

Nathan Hunt is joined Andrew O'Neill and Evan Gunter from S&P Global Ratings to discuss the rapidly expanding realm of private credit markets. Together, they explore the challenges facing private debt, including liquidity, transparency, and discuss how tokenization could transform this landscape.

More from Evan and Andrew:

• Tokenized Private Credit: A New Digital Frontier for Real World Assets

More S&P Global Content:

• More S&P Global Podcasts
• The Daily Update
• S&P Global Look Forward Report

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

In this episode, Nathan sits down with author Maggie Mertens about her book, "Better, Faster, Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women." Together, they discuss the challenges faced and progress made in women's sports.

Maggie Mertens:

• Book: "Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women"

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• Turning Moments into Movements: Women's Sports Attendance and Viewership Soar Pre-Olympics
• MediaTalk | Season 2 EP 23 - Women's Sports Turning Moments into Movements

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

In this episode, Nathan sits down with friend of the podcast Paul Grunewald, the Global Chief Economist for S&P Global Ratings, who shares his thoughts on the global macroeconomic picture and the specific economic landscape in China.

More S&P Global Content:

• Working While Caregiving: It's Complicated
• The Daily Update
• Look Forward

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

In this episode, Nathan is joined by Joined by Susan Reinhard, Senior Vice President and Director of the AARP Public Policy Institute, to explore the challenges faced by working caregivers and the importance of supporting them in the workplace. Together they dive into the increasing need for caregiving as the population ages and the impact it has on today's workforce.

More S&P Global Content:

• Working While Caregiving: It's Complicated
• The Daily Update
• Look Forward

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

In today's episode, Nathan is joined by J. Doyne Farmer, the director of the Complexity Economics Program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and author of the new book "Making sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for Better World" to discuss the importance of understanding and explaining economic models, particularly agent-based models.

J. Doyne Farmer:

• Book: "Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World"

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• Look Forward

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

In today's episode, Nathan is joined by S&P Global Ratings' Chief Innovation Officer Sudeep Kesh who addresses Nathan's general skeptisim towards artificial intelligence, and discusses the ways in AI could impact the greater world.

Sudeep Kesh:

• Check out Sudeep's new podcast "Artificial intelligence Insights" on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

More S&P Global Content:

• The Daily Update
• Look Forward

Credits:

• Host/Author: Nathan Hunt
• Producer/Editor: Patrick Moroney
• Published With Assistance From: Kyle May, Kurt Burger, Camille McManus

www.spglobal.com

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