What'd You Miss This Week

This week, Stinson Dean, Deacon Lumber Company CEO, came back on to talk about why lumber is caught in another market standoff. Jill Carlson, Slow Ventures principal and co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, returned to discuss whether she thinks this is the end of a crypto cycle and why institutions are still buying bitcoin despite the volatility. Caroline had an exclusive interview with Chevron CEO Mike Wirth right after he faced a major rebuke from his shareholders, which voted to back a proposal to reduce emissions from the company’s customers. Then Alex Williams, a research analyst at Employ America, joined to talk about his recent guest post on the Odd Lots blog titled "The Economy Is Booming. Why Don’t Firms Believe It?"

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This week, Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti, joined to talk about their spring auction, which included a group of nine Cryptopunks NFTs and the future of digital art. Mike Novogratz, the founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, reacted to Monday's volatility in bitcoin and explained why he thinks the cryptocurrency is likely to remain under pressure for weeks. Soona Amhaz, general partner at Venture Captial firm Volt Capital, which invests in the crypto space, came on to talk about Wednesday's wild ride for crypto and said a thirty percent dip is just another Wednesday in the space. Then Gregory Di Prisco, CEO of RWA Company and community member of the MakerDAO ecosystem, joined to discuss whether decentralized systems like crypto can buckle under extreme volatility.

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This week, Rick Palacios, principal and director of Research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, went through the latest in the lumber market frenzy and the impact on the U.S. housing market. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Conor Sen and Neil Dutta, the head of U.S. economics at Renaissance Macro Research, debated whether the economic cycle has peaked. Mike Pyle. chief economic advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris and former chief investment strategist at BlackRock, came on to react to the April CPI data and discuss whether those inflationary pressures will make passing the Biden Administration's spending plans more difficult. Then Nic Carter, the founding partner at Castle Island Ventures, went through the wild week in crypto and Elon Musk's bitcoin reversal.

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This week, Emily Weis, State Street emerging markets strategist, explained what was behind copper's record week and driving the metal to $10,000. Nir Kaissar, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the founder of Unison Advisors, argued why he thinks corporate tax loopholes actually matter more than the rate itself. Michelle Meyer, the head of U.S. economics at Bank of America Securities, went through this week's economic data and offered an outlook for the U.S. housing market. Then Tina Tchen, Time's Up president and CEO, came on to talk about the impact of President Biden's proposed American Families Plan on the labor market and growth.

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This week, Mario Stefanidis, Roundhill Investments vice president of research, who actively manages the firm's sports-themed MVP ETF, joined to talk about the investment side of the short-lived European Super League. Ali Wolf, chief economist at Zonda, a housing market research and real estate analytics firm, came on to talk about the U.S. housing market. Then New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joined for a wide-ranging interview on his economic outlook, inflation and why he thinks trade policy has always been overrated.

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This week, Jeff Korzenik, joined to talk about his new book "Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community" and why people with criminal backgrounds should not be employees of last resort. Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley came on to react to the Coinbase listing and discussed whether there was room for multiple winners in this space. Roshun Patel, vice president of institutional lending at Genesis, a digital currency prime brokerage, also discussed the Coinbase listing and crypto market structure. Then Deacon Lumber Company CEO Stinson Dean joined to talk about the frenzy in the lumber market and why prices are rising like he's never seen before.

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This week, Alon Levy, a fellow at NYU's Marron Institute, joined to discuss why the U.S. is not good at infrastructure and why public works projects carry a higher price tag in the U.S. as compared with other countries. Diogo Monica, the co-founder and president of Anchorage, a digital asset platform for institutions, came on to talk about Visa allowing transactions with UDS stablecoin. Boris Jordan, the executive chairman of Curaleaf, which just closed a deal to buy Emmac Life Sciences for $285 million giving the company entry into the European market, discussed the cannabis sector's growing momentum in both the U.S. and Europe. Then Zach Carter, the author of the best-selling book "The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes," joined to talk about what history tells us about the difference between hyperinflation and inflation.

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Joshua Younger, head of U.S. interest rate derivatives strategy at J.P. Morgan, joined to talk about the worst quarter for Treasuries since 1980. Yesha Yadav, law professor at Vanderbilt Law School and former legal counsel for the World Bank, discussed the volatility in Treasuries and the impact of the lack of regulation in the space. Unison Advisors founder and Bloomberg Opinion columnist Nir Kaissar explained why it's hard to be bear right now. Then Priyanka Desai, a member of the NFT-focused DAO or decentralized autonomous organization Flamingo, came on to talk about the new NFT craze and how people can participate.

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This week, Jason Tuvey, Capital Economics senior emerging markets economist, joined to talk about the sharp selloff in Turkish assets after President Erdogan ousted the country's central bank governor and what comes next for the country's economy and financial markets. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith explained why local price changes aren't inflation. Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih discussed Intel's ambitious bid to regain its manufacturing lead. Then Sridhar Ramaswamy, a former senior vice president at Google, who ran the company's ad business for fifteen years, reacted to the House tech hearing and discussed whether these companies' business models will ever be put under threat.

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This week, Ursual Burns, the former Xerox CEO and first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company discussed the gap between companies' rhetoric and results on International Women's Day. Tim Duy, SGH Macro Advisors economist, University of Oregon professor, and Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, joined to talk about the inflation debate ahead of next week's Federal Reserve rate decision. Liz Pancotti, Employ America senior advisor, broke down the economic impact of President Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package. Then Declan Kelly, chairman, CEO and co-founder of the global consulting firm Teneo, joined to discuss corporate America's reaction to the passage of Biden's stimulus package.

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