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Ep 22: Tom Spencer on the housing crisis, the monarchy, and Brexit Nov 29, 2021

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I talked to Tom Spencer a law student at City Law School and Chief Organizer of London New Liberals. Tom's interests lie on the edge of law and economics where he does work on housing policy and anti trust. We had a lively conversation on

Solving the UK's housing crisis
What lawyers and economists can learn from each other
Brexit and its consequences
The unwritten British constitution
Abolishing the monarchy

Ep 21: Michael Bishop on replication markets Nov 22, 2021

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I talked to Michael Bishop, who worked at DARPA's Replication Markets project. We talked about

Why was there a replication crisis in science?
How do you design a market for predicting replication attempts?
Is there alpha in replication market trading?

Ep 20: Kevin Erdmann on the myths about the Great Recession Nov 14, 2021

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I talked to Kevin Erdmann, a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center about his upcoming book Building From the Ground Up which is about myths surrounding the housing bubble and the Great Recession. We talked about

The myth of a 'housing bubble'
How American policymakers self induced a recession
His research process

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Ep 19: Matt Darling on behavioural science Nov 02, 2021

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I talked to Matt Darling, an Employment Policy Fellow at the Niskanen Institute

We talked about

Cognitive tax of poverty
Behavioural economics and the replication crisis
What question does he wish people asked him?

Ep 18: Rohit Krishnan on ambition, optionality and venture capital Sep 27, 2021

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I talked to Rohit Krishnan, a venture capitalist and writer of the newsletter Strange Loop Canon. In my view he is among the most underrated writers in the public sphere today. I talked to him about a variety of topics. They are:

The real meaning of ambition

Why people misunderstand optionality

Rohit’s favourite Indian cuisine

Why you can’t replicate college with internet subcultures

“VC’s biggest competition is hedge funds”.

Biggest career mistakes people make

Do consultants make good VCs?

What is VC's biggest competition

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Ep 15: Joshua Miller on Market Monetarism, NGDP Targeting and Milton Friedman Sep 21, 2021

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I talk to Joshua Miller, an extremely smart 16 year old on

Nominal GDP Targeting
What he disagrees with Milton Friedman the most on
The theory behind market monetarism

Ep 14: Noah Smith on American growth, partisanship and veganism Sep 14, 2021

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I talked to the very popular Noah Smith on a variety of topics. We talked about

Is America too insular?
Indian cultural exports to the US
Is economic growth zero-sum at the country level?
Where does he disagree with @jdcmedlock the most?
What are the deep causes of partisanship in America?
The moral coordination problem of going vegan
The political economy of solving NIMBYism
“America's national pastime is avoiding other Americans”

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Ep 13: Michael Fritzell on investing in Asia Sep 06, 2021

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I spoke to Michael Fritzell who writes the substack Asian Century Stocks about high-quality stock ideas around Asia. Michael is a CFA charterholder and has worked as an equity analyst in Asia for over a decade.

We talk about