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This week, Tyler Goodspeed, the acting chairman and Vice Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, joined ahead of jobs day to react to the new consumer data. Arpit Gupta, assistant professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, came on to talk about his new data showing how the pandemic is exasperated existing economic inequality in New York City and making economic mobility even more difficult. Then a What'd You Miss debate tackling one of the biggest cliches of 2020: there is no connection between the stock market and the economy. Nathan Tankus, research director of the Modern Money Network and publisher of the newsletter "Notes on the Crises" joined to put the adage to the test and explain why he thinks there is less disconnect than people think. Then Bloomberg Opinion columnist Nir Kaissar came on to offer the other side of the debate and explain why the idea is a cliche for a good reason.
This week, Jon Huntley, senior economist at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, came on to discuss the budgetary and economic impact of the infrastructure package. Rune Christensen, the co-founder of MakerDAO, joined to talk DeFi and decentralized stable coins. Zvi Schreiber, the CEO and founder of...
Published 08/14/21
Serial SPAC dealmaker Betsy Cohen joined to talk about finding her seventh target, Pico, a New York-based technology provider for financial services companies that merged with FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. in a $1.75 billion blank-check company deal. Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming,...
Published 08/07/21