Look Forward

Dr. Ajay Chhibber returns to S&P Global's Essential Podcast to discuss the current state of Bretton Woods institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and GATT. He covers the ways in which each of these institutions can be re-directed and re-conceived for a post-colonial order.

Talal Rafi, Senior Global Management Consultant at Deloitte joins the Essential Podcast to discuss the challenges of Sri Lanka as an emerging market economy and how Sri Lanka can serve as a model for understanding the debt trap for other emerging economies.

Brad DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley joins the Essential Podcast to discuss his ambitious and controversial new book "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century".

Evan Gunther of S&P Global Ratings and Leon Sinclair of S&P Global Market Intelligence join the Essential Podcast to talk about the growth and evolution of private debt markets.

Duncan Mavin of Dow Jones joins the Essential Podcast to talk about his new book "The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion Dollar Scandal". Duncan discusses Greensill Capital and its collapse, which damaged the reputations of a former U.K. Prime Minister, prominent venture capitalists, and Credit Suisse. He also talks about the bizarre experience of reporting on a company where the red flags were obvious, and yet thoroughly ignored by investors.

Jared Bibler joins the Essential Podcast to discuss his book "Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con". The saga of Iceland's banks during the global financial crisis is both implausibly strange and strangely plausible.

Diane Coyle of Cambridge University joins the Essential Podcast to discuss the critique she offers of the economics profession, as a professional economist. We cover misperceptions of economics in popular culture, false objectivity, reflexivity, and the challenge of AI.

Gary Gerstle of Cambridge University joins the Essential Podcast to talk about the nature of political orders and the collapse of the political order known as neoliberalism that came to power with Ronald Reagan.

Three S&P Global executives – Tina Morris, Shaun Wurzbach, and Ed Ware – with military experience join the Essential Podcast to talk about the unique role and skills of non-commissioned officers in the U.S. military and how to apply these lessons to businesses.