The Big View
Reuters Breakingviews columnists tap their best contacts to explore the biggest issues driving business and markets today. Every Tuesday, Global Editor Peter Thal Larsen and his team tackle a pressing question with a senior executive, financier, policymaker, or other expert. The Big View helps you understand what is going on, explore all sides of the argument, and think about what happens next.
[For previous The Exchange podcast users, we didn't want to leave you hanging so we've decided to repurpose this feed for the launch of The Big View podcast. You can still find the legacy episodes below marked under the old title]
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The Exchange: Ellen Pao
The investor sued Kleiner Perkins for discrimination, becoming a canary in the coal mine for a raft of sexual-harassment and gender-bias allegations rocking Silicon Valley, Hollywood and beyond. She discusses if this is a turning point for what she des...
21 min
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The Exchange: Mark Meadows
The congressman and chair of the Freedom Caucus thinks neither Republicans nor Democrats have had success in being the governing party. The Exchange went to his office to discuss what that means for tax reform and other issues, and why members of Congr...
30 min
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The Exchange: Scott Galloway
The NYU marketing guru swung by Times Square to discuss what's next for "The Four" tech behemoths - Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook. Among his predictions: one of them will be hit with a $10 bln-plus antitrust fine and Amazon will cho...
27 min
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The Exchange: Luke Bronin
Hartford is one of America's poorest cities in one of its richest states. And it's about to get worse for Connecticut's capital as Mayor Luke Bronin wrestles with a fiscal crisis that's likely to end in a bankruptcy filing. Rob Cox ...
35 min
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The Exchange: Jason Furman
There is almost nothing that the Trump administration is doing right on tax, trade, immigration, infrastructure, energy or regulatory policy. At least that's the view of the economist who spent eight years working for the previous White House. Jas...
36 min
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The Exchange: Art Laffer
U.S. Republicans are pursuing the holy grail of Washington policy: tax reform. The last comprehensive overhaul was in 1986 under Ronald Reagan. The Exchange met with Reagan adviser Art Laffer, known as the father of supply-side economics, to discuss...
23 min
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The Exchange: Duff McDonald
Harvard Business School has trained world leaders, like President George W. Bush, and billion entrepreneurs, including Steve Schwarzman and Mike Bloomberg. It also churned out convicted felons like Enron's Jeff Skilling and former McKinsey boss Ra...
25 min
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The Exchange: Mauricio Cárdenas
After half a century of strife, FARC guerillas are laying down their weapons and integrating into Colombia's political landscape, creating economic opportunities for the South American nation. The Exchange traveled to Bogota to discuss potential...
22 min
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Exchange Podcast: Jesse Eisinger
Why didn't any Wall Street bigwigs go to jail over the 2008 financial crisis? Unlike the failures of Enron, WorldCom and other corporate calamities, the collapses of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns necessitated taxpayer bailouts, incinerated bill...
32 min
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The Exchange: Bill Emmott
The system of political and economic openness built after World War Two is under threat, Bill Emmott argues in his new book "The Fate of the West." He joins us to discuss globalization, populism and why there's still cause for optimism a...
27 min
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The Exchange: Giuseppe Sala
The mayor of Milan celebrated his first year in office as authorities completed Italy's largest bank bailout. The Exchange visited Milan's city hall, the 16th century Palazzo Marino, to hear Mayor Sala's plans for making the city a post-...
17 min
312
The Exchange: James Ledbetter
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump suggested the United States revisit the gold standard. So did his rivals Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Ben Carson. Why are Americans so obsessed with the shiny rock, both as a store of value and an investment? James...
27 min
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The Exchange: Tony Ressler
As co-founder and CEO of Ares, Tony Ressler oversees the management of $100 billion. During a recent conversation in Los Angeles, he talked about the bull market under President Trump, his firm's struggling investment in Neiman Marcus and the risi...
37 min
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The Exchange: Henry Kaufman
As chief economist at Salomon Brothers in the 1970s, Henry Kaufman was known as Dr. Doom for his gloomy prognostications about the economy and markets. Kaufman swung by Times Square to discuss the "Trump bump," the Fed, Wall Street culture an...
35 min
315
The Exchange: Festival season
The first episode of our "Summer Reading" series kicks off on a musical note. The Governors Ball co-founder discusses the economics of putting on a music festival, the business of live music and life as part of Live Nation, the world's l...
19 min
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The Exchange: Anthony Scaramucci
Support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign is thin on Wall Street. The financial industry has by and large cast its bet with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Not Anthony Scaramucci. The founder of SkyBridge capital, who once backed fell...
43 min
317
Economic Dream Team Machine
With the U.S. presidential election entering its final days, the jockeying for prime roles in helping shape economic policy has begun in earnest. Who will run the Department of Treasury? Who will advise the next occupant of the White House on economic ...
40 min
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The Exchange: Judy Shelton
Donald Trump has made a lot of promises to spur U.S. economic growth if he becomes president. Judy Shelton, co-director of the Sound Money Project, is one of the economists working with the GOP nominee to turn this pledge into action. She sat down with...
35 min
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The Exchange: Ruchir Sharma
Want to know which emerging markets will thrive and which will fail? Listen to Morgan Stanley Investment Management's chief global strategist as he ticks through his ten metrics for determining the fate of economies. Hint: China is in a bad place....
21 min
320
The Exchange: The Trace's editor
James Burnett, editor of The Trace, an independent, non-profit media organization dedicated to expanding coverage of guns in the United States, swings by Times Square to discuss legislative responses to the horrific killing of 49 people at an Orlando n...
24 min
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The Exchange: Jeb Hensarling
Congressman Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, discusses his proposal to replace the sweeping Wall Street reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was passed after the 2008 crisis. The Texas Republican also discussed h...
27 min
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Brian Wilson's good vibes
The Beach Boys founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer took a break from his "Pet Sounds" 50th anniversary world tour to talk about the iconic album. Wilson shares his studio memories, discusses the pain of writing a new autobiography and o...
11 min
323
The Exchange: ‘Europe is a cesspool of deflatio...
Yanis Varoufakis joins Rob Cox, global editor of Breakingviews,to talk about his new book, “And the Weak Suffer What They Must?”,the state of the EU, and the implications of a potential Brexit andTrump presidency. See acast.com/priv...
24 min
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Lord Browne of L1 Energy
The former BP chief swings by Times Square to discuss his new book on how companies can radically engage with the wider world and become more inclusive to the benefit of owners. He also talks about the potential for M&A in the energy business, the ...
23 min
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The Exchange: The rise of shareholder activism
Hedge fund manager Jeff Gramm pops over to Times Square to discuss his new book, "Dear Chairman," which chronicles eight decades of pushy investing from Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett to Carl Icahn and Dan Loeb, and what this history mean...
16 min