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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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
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The Exchange: How Garry Kasparov sees the chess...
Garry Kasparov, a Russian opposition leader who was ranked as the world's best chess player for most of 20 years, has a problem with the West’s response to Vladimir Putin’s Russia and warns of the dangers of the nation's global influence. The...
15 min
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El Presidente of Barstool Sports
Dave Portnoy, founder of the oft-controversial sports blog website, swings by Times Square to discuss the sale of a majority stake to The Chernin Group, his plans for world domination, moving to New York and a Super Bowl without the Patriots. The Exc...
16 min
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The Exchange: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan
Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is playing the role of the adult in the room while the Republican presidential candidates one-up each other with increasingly outrageous rhetoric. The new house speaker chided Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims ...
9 min
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The Exchange: Joe Stiglitz
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of a new book - "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy" - believes both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are “right on” when it comes to the issue of income inequality. Democratic front-run...
19 min
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The Exchange: Ben Bernanke
The former Federal Reserve chairman is unapologetic about the central bank’s response to the great financial crisis. As he tells Rob Cox, and outlines in his new book “The Courage to Act,” the Fed was given little help by a dysfunctional Congress, in r...
17 min