Stephanomics

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Draghi and Diversity

06.20.2019

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi earned the ire of Donald Trump this week with his farewell speech at a major annual conference. Editor Paul Gordon was there at the prestigious gathering in Sintra, Portugal, and breaks down Draghi's comments ...

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06.20.2019 Draghi and Diversity European Central Bank President Mario Draghi earned the ire of Donald Trump this week with his farewell speech at a major annual conference. Editor Paul Gordon was there at the prestigious gathering in Sintra, Portugal, and breaks down Draghi's comments ...
06.13.2019 A Nobelist on the Future of Work Workers around the globe are in for a shock in coming decades as automation transforms the workplace and maybe destroys their jobs. But for Nobel-winning economist Christopher Pissarides, it's not all dismal. Host Stephanie Flanders has an extended talk with ...
06.06.2019 Four Days a Week If you live in the U.K., your workweek could soon be a day shorter if the political winds tilt more heavily toward the left. Jess Shankleman reports on how the proposal is gaining momentum and how it might affect Britain, ...
05.30.2019 Trade War Footing On this week's episode, former Obama administration official Wendy Cutler draws on her deep experience as a trade negotiator to offer her views on the tariff standoff between the U.S. and China. Guest host Tom Orlik, Bloomberg's chief economist, also ...
05.29.2019 Bloomberg Presents "What Goes Up" “What Goes Up” is a new show from Bloomberg that tracks the main themes influencing global markets. Hosts Sarah Ponczek and Mike Regan speak with guests about the wildest movements in markets and what they mean for your investments. The ...
05.24.2019 Bloomberg and Wondery Present: The Shrink Next Door Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. His parents had recently died. He had troubles at work. A failing relationship. He needed someone to help him through this rough patch in his life. So he decided to get some professional ...
05.23.2019 The Streak Down Under The longest economic expansion in the developed world may not be much longer for this world -- and that fear helped drive the shock election result in Australia last week. In the country where GDP has been growing for an ...
05.16.2019 Reinventing Germany's Economy Germany's engineering prowess has driven the nation's economic success for decades. Now that model is being questioned thanks to rising protectionism, slowing global growth, new technologies and Germany's own underinvestment in its infrastructure. Bloomberg's Catherine Bosley has a report from ...
05.09.2019 China's Millennials Are Changing the World Where are there more millennials than in North America, Europe and the Middle East combined, who are vastly different from their parents' generation? China, of course. Kevin Hamlin reports on how these young people are redefining the world's second-biggest economy ...
05.08.2019 Introducing: Business of Bees These days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn’t be possible without commercial bee pollination. And the economic value of insect pollination worldwide is estimated to be about $217 billion. But as important as bees have become ...
05.02.2019 Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Working) Many older Americans are living longer and are happy to keep working. Others can't afford to retire. Those are just a couple of the reasons why people over age 65 are swelling the ranks of U.S. employees in recent decades. ...
04.25.2019 Can Free Markets Revive Brazil? Will a dose of free-market policies -- from a populist politician, no less -- finally bring Latin America's biggest economy back to life? On this week's episode of Stephanomics, Bruce Douglas visits the region's busiest port to get a taste ...
04.18.2019 Can Technology Actually Save Jobs? Of the many forces driving the wave of hiring across the U.S. in recent years, technology is typically not on the list because automation and artificial intelligence tend to be seen as job-killing rather than job-enhancing. On this week's episode ...
04.17.2019 Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek speak with expert guests each week about the main themes influencing global markets. They explore everything from stocks to bonds to currencies and commodities, and how each asset ...
04.11.2019 This Country Is Winning the Trade War The trade war between the U.S. and China is taking a toll on growth in the world's two largest economies, but there's another nation where the tariff battle is producing a clear winner: Vietnam. This week, reporters Michelle Jamrisko and ...
04.04.2019 The Fortnite Economy Fortnite may be the biggest video-game phenomenon with more than 200 million registered players. It's also a good place to start if you want to understand globalization -- and the new directions the global economy is taking today. In the ...
03.28.2019 Coming Soon: Stephanomics Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg's head of economics, takes you on location each week to bring the global economy to life. From Asia's factories to Brazil's ports and America's hospital corridors, Stephanomics delivers on-the-ground reporting from the Bloomberg Economics team around the ...
03.20.2019 A Message For Benchmark Listeners Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg's senior executive editor for economics, has some exciting news about what's coming in the Benchmark feed.
01.08.2019 Introducing "Works For Me," A New Podcast From Bloomberg On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Francesca Levy and Rebecca Greenfield navigate the productivity industry by way of their own experiences. In each episode, one of the two becomes a human guinea pig as she tries to solve a ...
11.29.2018 Big Data's Lens Into the U.S. Economy Most U.S. economic data, such as jobs and consumer spending, is based not on actual data, but on surveys of Americans and businesses. What if you could look at every single purchase that people make, or peek at the bank ...
11.22.2018 What Climate Change Means for the Global Economy Wildfires and hurricanes are causing increasing destruction, part of how climate change is reshaping economies around the world. There are also business and investment opportunities in dealing with the effects -- though you may have to think in the very ...
11.15.2018 The Global Economy in 2019 and Beyond With power-shifting elections, emerging-market turbulence and a trade war making waves, how does it all add up for the world economy in 2019? Catherine Mann, chief global economist at Citigroup, joins Benchmark for a tour of major economies including the ...
11.08.2018 Why The Global Labor Market Is Shrinking Look beyond headlines on unemployment and job creation and you'll see a bigger transformation. The global market for labor was boosted for three decades by a handful of historical flukes now going into reverse. Robots everywhere, including China, will be ...
11.07.2018 Travel Genius, a New Show From Bloomberg What’s the most sure-fire way to get a flight upgrade? How can you find the best, secret local restaurants by asking just one question? What's the first thing you should do when you get into a hotel room? On Bloomberg's ...
11.02.2018 Prognosis, a New Show From Bloomberg Where does a medical cure come from? 100 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for scientists to test medicines by taking a dose themselves. As medical technologies get cheaper and more accessible, patients and DIY tinkerers are trying something similar—and mainstream ...
11.01.2018 Writing a Book With Paul Volcker Paul Volcker made his mark as the inflation-defeating chairman of the Federal Reserve. Now at age 91, he's just published a new memoir called "Keeping At It." His collaborator happens to be Bloomberg Markets editor Christine Harper, who shares the ...
10.25.2018 The U.S. Economy Is Doing Great. Why Isn't Housing? The housing market is one of the few sectors of the U.S. economy that isn't sharing in the recent pickup in growth. Purchases are slowing down, builders aren't building so much, and some people are even reluctant to post their ...
10.24.2018 Coming Soon: The New Economy Bloomberg’s head of economics Stephanie Flanders calls on Bloomberg's worldwide network of reporters and expert commentators to cast a fresh eye on looming challenges for the world economy which affect us all.This 6 part podcast combines on the ground reporting ...
10.23.2018 Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part 4 In the final episode of our special series on China's Belt and Road initiative, we go to Europe to learn more about how that continent is involved with the giant infrastructure project. Bloomberg reporter Tom Mackensie takes us to a ...
10.19.2018 Coming Soon: The ETF Story The creation story of the first exchange-traded fund is actually the best way to understand how they work. And it's not just educational, it's entertaining. Like the PC and the MP3, the story of the creation of SPY -- which ...
10.18.2018 What Makes Some Emerging Markets Always Win? Why do some emerging markets consistently succeed while others flame out? Anu Madgavkar, partner at McKinsey Global Institute, shares the secret sauce with Bloomberg Opinion's Daniel Moss.
10.11.2018 Kai-Fu Lee on the Great Game to Dominate Data Don't fret too much about tariffs and trade deficits. The real competition between the U.S. and China will be in artificial intelligence and data, says Kai-Fu Lee, author of "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order." Lee ...
10.09.2018 Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part 3 In the third episode of this four-part series on China's Belt and Road initiative, we look at Kenya and how Chinese investment in cargo and commuter railways between Mombasa and Nairobi is impacting economic development in the region. Bloomberg TV ...
10.04.2018 "Best Economy" Ever? A Historian Tackles Trump's Claim The job numbers are strong and GDP growth looks great, but is it really the "best economy" in U.S. history as President Donald Trump says? Robert Gordon, a Northwestern University professor and author of the 2016 book “The Rise and ...
09.27.2018 Jeffrey Sachs On Making Foreign Policy Reflect Economics For all the current strength of American economy, the country lacks the economic clout to bend the world to its liking. The U.S. lacks a foreign policy that truly reflects the shift in commercial gravity toward Asia, says Jeffrey Sachs, ...
09.25.2018 Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part 2 In the second of this four-part series on China's Belt and Road initiative, we talk to Haslinda Amin, who hosts the second episode of Bloomberg's TV series on the initiative and has traveled extensively through Southeast and Central Asia for ...
09.20.2018 Brazil's Wild Election Holds Key to Region's Economy Can South America's largest economy get any worse? It may all depend on the outcome of next month's presidential election in Brazil. The campaign has already seen its share of drama, and investors are spooked about a return to heavy ...
09.13.2018 How Trade War is Reshaping China The force of the trade war unleashed by Donald Trump goes beyond peeved farmers and pricier gadgets. The entire economic model of modern corporations is up for grabs, just as China is undergoing a huge internal shift that's likely to ...
09.10.2018 Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part I As a special bonus, we’re bringing Benchmark listeners the first peek at a four-part series on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. President Xi Jinping calls it the project of the century: a massive infrastructure spending program that hopes to enhance ...
09.06.2018 Big Questions Are Hanging Over the Auto Industry The auto industry is being buffeted from all sides. Consumer tastes have shifted, forcing manufacturers to retool product lines. President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on imported autos. And the move toward electric vehicles and autonomous cars could have profound ...
08.30.2018 How Economics Shaped The End of WWII Economic divisions in the U.S. brought an end to World War II as much as the atomic bombs. On the anniversary of Japan's surrender, historian Marc Gallicchio explains how bitter fights between business, unions and Congress marred the final months ...
08.23.2018 Americans Get Lots of Government Money, And They Still Hate Washington Why do so many Americans ignore their hip pocket? Portions of the country where citizens are increasingly dependent on government programs, like Kentucky, have become the most conservative. This transformation in the nation's economics and politics goes beyond Donald Trump; ...
08.16.2018 What You Need to Know About Turkey's Financial Crunch Turkey's currency plunged this month after President Donald Trump stepped up economic sanctions in a dispute over a detained pastor. It was already going downhill after the nation's leader vowed to shun the traditional playbook of dealing with soaring inflation. ...
08.09.2018 Bitcoin's Big Problems Bitcoin was recently called a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster by one of the world's leading authorities on finance and economics. But underneath that sensational description, cryptocurrencies are saddled with underlying technological flaws that ...
08.02.2018 We'll All Be Eating Bugs Sooner Than You Think It's not tastebuds or the latest fetish at trendy health food stores that's driving the boom in bug gastronomy. Broad economic forces like climate change and population growth mean insects and grubs are appearing on more menus around the world. ...
07.26.2018 Alaska: Front Line in the Global Trade War President Donald Trump's trade war is hitting a wide variety of goods produced in America, and Alaska's fisheries are caught in the crossfire. The industry has become highly dependent on ties with China, thanks to shipments that head there for ...
07.19.2018 How America's China Trauma Strains Alliances Trump's election wasn't a fluke. Nor are tariffs a passing fad. They reflect deep-seated trauma at the country's decline relative to China. So enraged and befuddled is the U.S. that it's a danger to itself, its closest allies and the ...
07.12.2018 Why India-China Comparisons Miss The Point How many times have you heard India and China mentioned in the same breath? We may be looking at the South Asian giant all wrong. The best comparison might be with the robber-baron era in America, rather than China's state ...
07.05.2018 Why China's Population Is About to Plunge Is a trade war or surging debt the biggest threat to China's economy? Try declining fertility. While the nation recently relaxed its one-child policy, such moves are unlikely to head off a projected plunge in population that will constrain the ...
06.28.2018 How Falling Fertility Threatens the Global Economy Around the world, women are having far fewer children than they were 50 years ago. This decline in fertility threatens to cause falling populations in many countries, which weighs on economic growth because it means fewer workers who can produce ...

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Stephanomics episodes:

Draghi and Diversity

A Nobelist on the Future of Work

Four Days a Week

Trade War Footing

Bloomberg Presents "What Goes Up"

Bloomberg and Wondery Present: The Shrink Next Door

The Streak Down Under

Reinventing Germany's Economy

China's Millennials Are Changing the World

Introducing: Business of Bees

Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Working)

Can Free Markets Revive Brazil?

Can Technology Actually Save Jobs?

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg

This Country Is Winning the Trade War

The Fortnite Economy

Coming Soon: Stephanomics

A Message For Benchmark Listeners

Introducing "Works For Me," A New Podcast From Bloomberg

Big Data's Lens Into the U.S. Economy

What Climate Change Means for the Global Economy

The Global Economy in 2019 and Beyond

Why The Global Labor Market Is Shrinking

Travel Genius, a New Show From Bloomberg

Prognosis, a New Show From Bloomberg

Writing a Book With Paul Volcker

The U.S. Economy Is Doing Great. Why Isn't Housing?

Coming Soon: The New Economy

Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part 4

Coming Soon: The ETF Story

What Makes Some Emerging Markets Always Win?

Kai-Fu Lee on the Great Game to Dominate Data

Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part 3

"Best Economy" Ever? A Historian Tackles Trump's Claim

Jeffrey Sachs On Making Foreign Policy Reflect Economics

Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part 2

Brazil's Wild Election Holds Key to Region's Economy

How Trade War is Reshaping China

Bonus: One Belt, One Road, Part I

Big Questions Are Hanging Over the Auto Industry

How Economics Shaped The End of WWII

Americans Get Lots of Government Money, And They Still Hate Washington

What You Need to Know About Turkey's Financial Crunch

Bitcoin's Big Problems

We'll All Be Eating Bugs Sooner Than You Think

Alaska: Front Line in the Global Trade War

How America's China Trauma Strains Alliances

Why India-China Comparisons Miss The Point

Why China's Population Is About to Plunge

How Falling Fertility Threatens the Global Economy

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