The Big View

With US debt at $40 trln and yields near two-decade highs, government bonds are causing economic jitters. On this episode of The Big View, financial journalist Robin Wigglesworth tells Peter Thal Larsen how state borrowing built the modern world – with many bumps along the way.

Robin Wigglesworth: “A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World”

The Big View: Why central bankers face an inflation reckoning

The Big View: Global currencies have a rich past and poor future

The Big View: How AI shockwaves ripple through financial markets

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Today’s business leaders spent most of their careers in an era of relative stability. In this episode of The Big View, strategist Tina Fordham tells Peter Thal Larsen why geopolitical uncertainty is here to stay – and what unexpected shocks companies should be preparing for.

Tina Fordham: “Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders”

Liaquat Ahamed: “1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World”

The Big View: How the US election affects the rest of the world

The Big View: The Gulf energy crisis and the US-China showdown

The Big View: How the Strait of Hormuz changes economic warfare

The Big View: The perks and penalties of waging economic war

The Big View: Securing joined-up markets in a fractured world

The Big View: How a French building giant tackled fragmentation

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The private equity and credit firm elbowed aside big banks to amass $1 trln of assets. In this episode of The Big View, William D. Cohan, author of ‘Money to Burn’, and Peter Thal Larsen discuss how Apollo rose from the 1990s junk bond wreck and whether its new model will endure.

William Cohan, “Money to Burn: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street”

The Big View: Private equity sets its sights on the little guy

The Big View: The debit and credit of the private lending boom

The Big View: Why private credit is shrinking as it booms

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Donald Trump’s tariffs and Chinese rare earths have scrambled global commerce. Yet as Ed Conway describes in ‘Trade World’, rulers have wielded chokepoints for centuries, with mixed results. In this episode of The Big View, he tells Peter Thal Larsen that advantages rarely last.

Ed Conway: “Trade World: The Ties that Bound Our Past and Could Unravel Our Future”

Leonard Read: “I, Pencil”

The Big View: How the Strait of Hormuz changes economic warfare

The Big View: The power and peril of American economic warfare

The Big View: Donald Trump’s biggest trade shock is yet to come

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Daron Acemoglu has spent years studying the origins of prosperity. Now he says the institutions, laws and freedoms that made the West rich are under threat. On this episode of The Big View, the Nobel laureate tells Peter Thal Larsen why any solution starts with the working class.

Daron Acemoglu: What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

Nobel Lecture

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and Simon Johnson: Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence

The Big View: Carl Benedikt Frey

The Big View: Mariana Mazzucato

The Big View: Branko Milanovic

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