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This week, Emily Weis, emerging market strategist at State Street, went through the implications of Brazilian President Bolsonaro firing the CEO of the state-run oil company Petrobras and the outlook for emerging markets. Scott Irwin, the Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing at the University of Illinois, who is an expert in futures and commodity markets, discussed the surge in commodity prices and whether a new supercycle has arrived. KR Sridhar, the founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, spoke about how their technology like hydrogen fuel cells could make a power grid more robust and prevent disasters like the mass blackouts in Texas. Then Rod Alzmann, co-proprietor of GMEDD.com and a long-time Gamestop bull, returned to talk about the resurgence of the meme trade and what changes have happened at Gamestop since its initial surge.
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