הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Bethany McLean (2024)

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Going, going, Ghosn - with Joe Nocera 39:47

4y ago39:47

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In the Season One finale of Making A Killing, Bethany brings back her friend, colleague and co-author Joe Nocera (Bloomberg Opinion columnist and creator of The Shrink Next Door podcast) to bookend the season with a lively analysis of the former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault S.A., Carlos Ghosn... sure to go down in history as one of the wild…

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Malcolm Harris on "Keynes Was Wrong. Gen Z Will Have It Worse." 37:45

4y ago37:45

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John Maynard Keynes, the founder of macroeconomics, thought he knew what his grandchildren would be facing today. He imagined that capitalism would be almost over by now, having simply been a means to greater ends. About other things he was right; about capitalism being over, he was very, very wrong. Today's guest, Malcolm Harris -- editor of The N…

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Liam Denning on the Price of Oil 45:15

4+ y ago45:15

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The inconvenient truth of oil is that it is still the lifeblood of industrialized nations -- and the price, politics and pollution of it matters. A lot. But one of the funny things about oil is how everyone who dares to make predictions has one thing in common: They’re wrong. In this episode, Bethany talks with Liam Denning, a well-known Bloomberg …

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Kirsten Korosec on the Rocky Road for Self-Driving Cars 39:43

4+ y ago39:43

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Autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, are often painted as a utopian-like technology that will save time (no traffic), save lives (no crashes), save money (billions!), and maybe even save the Earth (no emissions). But, as TechCrunch's Kirsten Korosec notes in her recent piece, “Who Will Own the Future of Transportation?” even if autonomous veh…

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Chris McCann on Cryptocurrency in the Real World 40:41

4+ y ago40:41

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Cryptocurrencies are still in their infancy, as it seems most people agree, but it also feels like we’ve reached a tipping point. Even in Crypto Winters when Bitcoin prices crash, undeniably formative companies and global leaders (Starbucks, Microsoft, Visa, Facebook, the entire nation of China!) continue to make significant bets on the space. As w…

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Paul Tough on How College Makes Us or Breaks Us 43:57

4+ y ago43:57

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If there’s a defining feature of upper income life for people with children, it’s school stress. How do you get your kids into the right preschool so they can get into the right high school so they can go to the best college? Paul Tough’s new book THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST: How College Makes or Breaks Us, reveals why college, which is supposed to …

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Nick Lemann on Shooting Sacred Cows (in Economics) 33:00

4+ y ago33:00

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It's easy to take the economic mores of the time in which you live for granted. It's so easy, in fact, that it doesn't occur to most of us to question them. But question them we should. In his new book, TRANSACTION MAN, longtime journalist and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School Nick Lemann shows that the beliefs that have shaped our mo…

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Mark Rampolla on Peak Alt-Meat 40:48

4+ y ago40:48

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Mark Rampolla has been at the forefront of not one, but two industry-making companies. The first was his own ZICO coconut water, which birthed an $8 billion alternative beverage industry. The next saw Mark as an investor in Beyond Meat, which has been leading the plant-based food revolution. In both cases, the pioneering companies were met head on …

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Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Business of Ivanka Trump 37:11

4+ y ago37:11

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From the minute her dad took office, Ivanka and her business affairs have been at the center of controversy. Even though Ivanka removed herself from her Ivanka Trump fashion company when she entered the White House as a formal Adviser in 2017, she was forced to close the brand in Summer of 2018 due to continuing questions of conflicts of interest. …

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Fake News and Fact Checking on Social Media with Kyle Pope 39:41

4+ y ago39:41

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Bethany talks to Kyle Pope, editor in chief and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, about the importance of fact checking. In this terrifying new world of fake news, it's more important than ever. Are the major social platforms doing enough, or is it just a losing battle? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork…

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The Business of Cannabis: Chatting about the highs and lows, with Jackson Tilley 33:47

4+ y ago33:47

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Now that cannabis is "legalish" there are a host of new opportunities for emerging businesses and investments... but also a decent amount of playing wait-and-see. Today, pot is legal in 33 states. But it is still illegal at the federal level. From a financial point of view, too, the short history of cannabis stocks is... high and lows! In this fasc…

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Consumer v. Retailer: Online Shopping Gone Wild 32:39

4+ y ago32:39

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Bethany talks with Jerry Useem, contributing editor to The Atlantic, about online shopping. Who has the power in the ever-expanding world of online shopping - the retailer or the consumer? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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The Debt Bomb in Middle America, with Ken Brown 34:42

4+ y ago34:42

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The Wall Street Journal headline reads: “Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class.” In the article, we meet several responsible, educated, well-employed families who are making nearly $150,000 a year… yet going deeper into debt with every paycheck. With, it seems, no way out. This is scary because it’s true, it’s widespread, it’s fundam…

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Brexit as Game of Thrones, with Gillian Tett 41:52

4+ y ago41:52

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Bethany sits down with Gillian Tett, Chairman of the Financial Times Editorial Board (U.S.) and a British author. Among many other things, she has a way of looking at the big picture questions and implications of Brexit. In the U.S as in the U.K., we’re watching the daily breakdown of the political norms and processes that we’ve all been used to fo…

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Tesla, and why "Elon Musk doesn't care about you" with Linette Lopez 49:07

4+ y ago49:07

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One of the questions Bethany has obsessed over in her years of covering big business is this: "What is the line between a visionary and a fraudster?" If any piece of Elon Musk's current empire (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, etc) works in the long term, he’ll go down in the history books as a visionary. But will the problems he has created, and…

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The Business and Crisis of Opioids, with Barry Meier 38:04

4+ y ago38:04

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In 1996, a prescription opioid known as OxyContin hit the market. It was among the first opioids to be heavily marketed (yes, legally) and since that time, more than 400,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses—including some 200,000 from prescription opioids. Millions more continue to struggle with addiction, and entire communities have been …

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An Inside Look At The Crisis At Boeing, with Bloomberg's Peter Robison 35:51

4+ y ago35:51

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Bloomberg writer Peter Robison conducted more than a dozen interviews with former Boeing employees and FAA inspectors, and went through hundreds of pages of internal emails and records. In a piece entitled “Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost Cutting Sacrificed Safety” he writes this: “The crisis is best understood as part of a larger drama…

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The Risks and Realities of Private Equity, with Dan Rasmussen 39:33

4+ y ago39:33

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It isn’t a secret that pension funds, which we all rely on to some degree or another to pay for our retirements, are in dire straits. Ready for a scary number? The combined funding deficit of public pension plans in the U.S., across all 50 states, was reported at an alarming $1.28 Trillion in 2017. Thank goodness we have a savior! It’s the private …

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Netflix: The House (Of Cards) That Reed Hastings Built 36:39

4+ y ago36:39

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Bethany talks with WSJ reporter Sahil Patel about the future of Netflix. Netflix is an incredibly aggressive company with a long term plan to monopolize all our time. There is no chilling going on. CEO Reed Hastings often describes Netflix’s business as a virtuous cycle, saying “We get more customers, we get more money, we can afford more content, …

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Mike Isaac Is SUPER PUMPED To Talk All Things Uber 35:10

4+ y ago35:10

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You don’t name your company "Uber" if you are planning to play by all the rules, make decisions by committee, and be everyone’s friend. But you probably also don’t make it to the top of the tech world by setting everything on fire, just because you can. (You can’t). In this episode, Bethany chats with Mike Isaac, who is in charge of covering Uber f…

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Katherine Eban's BOTTLE OF LIES: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom 39:02

4+ y ago39:02

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Katherine Eban’s new book, Bottle of Lies, is terrifying. Here’s why: 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics. Without generic medications, drug prices would not just be a problem, but literally a killer. And our doctors tell us these drugs are safe. But, according to Katherine, we actually cannot trust generic drugs. Find …

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Allison Schrager: How Do We Master Risk? 36:35

4+ y ago36:35

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Bethany talks with Allison Schrager, author of the new book, An Economist Walks Into A Brothel. She’s a retirement finance economist, and has spent years talking to risk takers in all kinds of businesses. In a Hollywood-worthy twist, she has lately been studying risk in the unlikeliest of places -- talking to sex workers at The Bunny Ranch brothel …

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Rana Foroohar wonders: What are companies actually for? 36:38

4+ y ago36:38

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Financial Times columnist, CNN analyst and author Rana Foroohar has a question for you. Since only 15% of the money that is flowing out of the largest financial institutions is making it into the real economy... where's the other 85% going? In this episode, Bethany and Rana discuss the problem of "financialization" which essentially means that trad…

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Fred Vogelstein on the Problem of Facebook's Power 39:23

4+ y ago39:23

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Bethany talks to Wired contributing editor Fred Vogelstein about Facebook. They discuss why obsessing about Facebook and privacy might be the wrong place to focus. The other question is what happens when heads of corporations are more powerful than most heads of states and how does that power manifest itself? Learn more about your ad-choices at htt…

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Sheelah Kolhatkar on Short Termism 35:46

5y ago35:46

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Bethany speaks to Black Edge author and New Yorker writer Sheelah Kolhatkar on the issue of short termism highlighting how Panera does things differently. They discuss why a focus on producing profits NOW can divert research and development dollars that could have a big impact to the company in the future. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:…

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Geoff Colvin on the Rise and Fall of an American Retail Icon 41:15

5y ago41:15

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Longtime Fortune magazine writer, author and analyst Geoff Colvin writes about the sobering bankruptcy of the once dominant Sears Roebuck & Co., saying that: “the Sears story should scare us.” In this episode, Bethany and Geoff discuss the rise and fall of Sears—where did Sears go wrong?—and if its decline was inevitable, or fixable. And what can o…

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Alex Gibney on Theranos, Fraudsters and Visionaries 37:20

5y ago37:20

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Ever since the days of Enron, I’ve been fascinated by this question: What separates a visionary entrepreneur from a fraudster? Being a visionary requires being able to tune out other people’s doubts, to say you’re right and everyone else is wrong, to persist through impossible difficulties because you believe your goal is grand, and worthy … even a…

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Eliza Griswold on what does fracking, fracture? 33:13

5y ago33:13

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In this episode, Bethany goes deep with Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Amity & Prosperity. They discuss the upside and downside of progress told through the lens of energy. Technological innovations like fracking are destructive at the very same time that they are also drivers of opportunity, political power, and wealth (for some)…

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Joe Nocera on Juul, vaping, and the lesser of two evils 34:45

5y ago34:45

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Juul is the wildly popular, wildly valued and wildly controversial vaping company. Juul became the fastest startup ever to reach a valuation of more than $10 billion dollars — beating the pace set by tech giants Facebook and Snap by four times. Juul as a company claims that it is focused on harm reduction, arguing that vaping gets existing smokers …

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Seth Godin on living in Amazon's world 40:10

5y ago40:10

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There is so much to understand about Amazon. Given its rate of growth and change, it can feel a little dizzying to keep up. But my main interest is not in whatever the latest, daily headlines are about the company. I’m interested in what all those headlines add up to, taken as a whole. What Amazon has become, what industries it has disrupted and fo…

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Trailer: Making a Killing 1:53

5y ago1:53

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Making a Killing with Bethany McLean

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Going, going, Ghosn - with Joe Nocera 39:47

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Malcolm Harris on "Keynes Was Wrong. Gen Z Will Have It Worse." 37:45

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Liam Denning on the Price of Oil 45:15

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Kirsten Korosec on the Rocky Road for Self-Driving Cars 39:43

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Chris McCann on Cryptocurrency in the Real World 40:41

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Paul Tough on How College Makes Us or Breaks Us 43:57

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Nick Lemann on Shooting Sacred Cows (in Economics) 33:00

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Mark Rampolla on Peak Alt-Meat 40:48

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Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Business of Ivanka Trump 37:11

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Fake News and Fact Checking on Social Media with Kyle Pope 39:41

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The Business of Cannabis: Chatting about the highs and lows, with Jackson Tilley 33:47

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Consumer v. Retailer: Online Shopping Gone Wild 32:39

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The Debt Bomb in Middle America, with Ken Brown 34:42

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Brexit as Game of Thrones, with Gillian Tett 41:52

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Tesla, and why "Elon Musk doesn't care about you" with Linette Lopez 49:07

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The Business and Crisis of Opioids, with Barry Meier 38:04

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An Inside Look At The Crisis At Boeing, with Bloomberg's Peter Robison 35:51

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The Risks and Realities of Private Equity, with Dan Rasmussen 39:33

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Netflix: The House (Of Cards) That Reed Hastings Built 36:39

1
Mike Isaac Is SUPER PUMPED To Talk All Things Uber 35:10

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Katherine Eban's BOTTLE OF LIES: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom 39:02

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Allison Schrager: How Do We Master Risk? 36:35

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Rana Foroohar wonders: What are companies actually for? 36:38

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Fred Vogelstein on the Problem of Facebook's Power 39:23

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Sheelah Kolhatkar on Short Termism 35:46

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Geoff Colvin on the Rise and Fall of an American Retail Icon 41:15

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Alex Gibney on Theranos, Fraudsters and Visionaries 37:20

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Eliza Griswold on what does fracking, fracture? 33:13

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Joe Nocera on Juul, vaping, and the lesser of two evils 34:45

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Seth Godin on living in Amazon's world 40:10

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Trailer: Making a Killing 1:53

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