Interview recorded - 3rd of January, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Dave Collum. Dave is a Professor of Organic Chemistry and leading thinker on markets and the larger world around us. 

During our conversation we spoke about Dave's review of 2024, the destruction of the democratic party, emergence of extremism, bureaucratic crisis, controlling complex systems, dollar wrecking ball, confiscating assets, Trump 2.0 and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
2:27 - Review of 2024
3:50 - Democrats took election for granted?
9:00 - Biden in 2016?
18:00 - Bureaucratic crisis
26:08 - Emergence of extremism
29:02 - Political accountability
29:59 - Powell recent decision making?
35:15 - Controlling complex systems
31:22 - Managers can be poor allocators of capital
40:42 - Distributions
41:56 - Big Pharma model
47:36 - Healthcare failing
49:57 - Dollar wrecking ball
53:42 - Confiscating assets
58:47 - Optimism about Trump 2.0
1:03:13 - Trump to avoid a market reckoning?
1:04:12 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

David Collum received a BS in biology from Cornell in 1977 and an MA, MS, and PhD in chemistry from Columbia University in 1980. Dave currently is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. While at Cornell Dave has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, associate chairman, and chairman while running a research program in organic chemistry for forty years, which include collaborations with a host of large-cap pharmaceutical companies exemplified by Merck and Pfizer. In recent years he has become interested in the interface where politics and markets meet. He compiles an annual Year in Review, does several dozen podcasts per year, and occasionally stirs up trouble on more mainstream media sources.

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