SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including the energy transformation and the transition to an AI-augmented economy.
In this episode of SmarterMarkets, host Dave Greely interviews DJ Watkins and Chanel Host about the relaunch of the Aspen Design Conference. They discuss the history of the International Design Conference in Aspen, its reimagining for the modern world, and the importance of design thinking in solving today's complex pr...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets, host Dave Greely interviews Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi, CEO of ARTEX Global Markets, about building a regulated market for trading and investing in museum-quality fine art. Yassir discusses the discriminatory nature of the art market, where a small percentage of artists and artworks gen...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets, Catherine Flax, CEO of Zefiro, discusses the challenges and opportunities in the business of plugging end-of-life oil and gas wells to reduce methane emissions. Flax explains Zefiro's revenue streams from corporate clients, government contracts, and carbon markets, emphasizing the bip...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets™, Dave Greely interviews Theresa Kammel and Pierre Buisson from Munich Re about weather derivatives and their increasing importance in managing weather-related risks amid climate change and the energy transition. They discuss how weather derivatives are financial instruments that pay o...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets™, Dave Greely interviews Albert Cheng, CEO of the Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA), about Singapore's journey to becoming a global hub for gold and precious metals trading. Cheng discusses Project Lion One, which focused on removing GST on gold, attracting refineries, and en...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets™, host Dave Greely interviews Jeff Currie about his new paper, "The New Martial Plan," a sequel to "The New Jewel Order." They discuss the shift in global order away from a U.S.-underwritten system towards a world where security is paramount, impacting geopolitics, energy, and investme...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets™, host Dave Greeley interviews Michael Greenstone, Director of EPIC at the University of Chicago, about translating academic energy and environmental research into real-world impact. Greenstone shares his experiences in the White House and the origin story of EPIC, emphasizing the impo...
In this episode of SmarterMarkets™, host Dave Greeley interviews Michelle Dennedy, Chief Data Strategy Officer at Abaxx Technologies, about the evolving role of data in business. Michelle discusses the shift from viewing data as a liability to recognizing it as a valuable asset, emphasizing the importance of metrics, d...
This episode of SmarterMarkets™ revisits key discussions from the past year, focusing on the energy transition, globalization of natural gas, and the rise of AI. Guests, including Robert Friedland, Brad Hitch, and Samantha Dart, explore topics like LNG market dynamics, European environmental policies' impact on carbon ...
This episode explores the complexities of the gold market in the 21st century, focusing on the role of bullion banking and recent market dislocations. Against the backdrop of recent tariff-related volatility, the discussion centers on how companies borrow gold instead of buying it to manage price risk, a process facil...
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