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]
1
The right way to prepare future workers for AI
42 min
2
Bond markets are cause for concern and celebration
42 min
3
How CEOs are adapting to new rules of power
38 min
4
How Apollo rewrote the rules of Wall Street
46 min
5
Why trade flows are so enduring and hard to stop
42 min
6
An economist’s plan to salvage liberal democracy
42 min
7
The cause and effects of China’s slow-motion crash
The world’s second-largest economy experienced the largest credit boom and bust in recent history. On this episode of The Big View, Logan Wright of Rhodium Group explains why debt, deflation, slow growth and industrial overcapacity will be hard to shift in the People’s Republic.
41 min
8
Why battling climate change can be good for growth
43 min
9
McKinsey’s CFO on the benefits and costs of AI
The global consulting firm is using artificial intelligence while advising clients on rolling it out. In this episode of The Big View, finance chief Yuval Atsmon talks to Peter Thal Larsen about taming token bills, the threat to jobs, and the new appeal of generalists.
41 min
10
How a French building giant tackled fragmentation
34 min
11
Why central banks are key to electronic money
32 min
12
Does Elon Musk represent a new form of capitalism?
The SpaceX boss became the first trillionaire by defying business wisdom, upending financial standards and embracing far-right politics. On The Big View this week Peter Thal Larsen asks Quinn Slobodian, co-author of “Muskism”, whether Musk is a one-off or a model of the future.
37 min
13
Why central bankers face an inflation reckoning
33 min
14
One way to rethink economics for the better
37 min
15
A stock market veteran’s view on the AI bubble
41 min
16
Buyout barons weather private turbulence
40 min
17
Separating science fiction from fact at SpaceX
Elon Musk’s rockets-to-AI venture is getting closer to a $1.8 trln IPO. In this episode of The Big View, astrophysicist Adam Becker, author of ‘More Everything Forever,’ tells Jeff Goldfarb about the folly of ascribing value to plans to put data centers in space or colonize Mars.
40 min
18
Why rich societies became prosperous and anxious
In the developed world, many people are both better off and unsatisfied. On this episode of The Big View, Peter Thal Larsen talks to Ryan Avent, author of ‘In Good Faith’, about the eroding beliefs underpinning growth, and whether AI will force us to confront what progress means.
31 min
19
Why the dollar could outlast the United States
42 min
20
Securing joined-up markets in a fractured world
Great power rivalry and upstart technology are testing financial infrastructure. In this episode of The Big View, Stephan Leithner, CEO of Deutsche Boerse, tells Peter Thal Larsen how the $58 bln exchange group is coping with volatility, and how the EU can become more autonomous.
37 min
21
The Gulf energy crisis and the US-China showdown
35 min
22
How the Strait of Hormuz changes economic warfare
By strangling the waterway, Iran retaliated against the US and eased some financial sanctions. In this episode of The Big View Edward Fishman, senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, tells Peter Thal Larsen how American economic weapons have been turned against it.
32 min
23
How ransomware took the world economy hostage
36 min
24
OpenAI’s curious business conundrum
37 min
25
Global currencies have a rich past and poor future
30 min