DeepMacro: Future of Finance

Mar 22 2024 33 mins 4

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The DeepMacro Data and Markets Podcast explores Big Data, AI, science, and markets. We bring our contacts in the fields of data science, AI research, and new asset classes to talk about cutting-edge issues that are relevant to markets. We also bring the exciting developments in Asia, which do not get the attention they deserve, to a US audience. Hosted by Jeff Young, CEO of DeepMacro.

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Crises of the Liberal International Order, with John Ikenberry

Mar 22 2024 49 mins

Jeff spoke with John Ikenberry, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, on the liberal international order and its discontents. We spoke about the themes in Professor Ikenberry's most recent book is titled "A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order", including not only the

Financial Stability, the Fed, and China, with Hal Scott

Feb 28 2024 38 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Hal Scott, Emeritus Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School. Hal is an expert on bank and capital markets regulation, and testified on Feb 15, 2024 before the House Committee on Financial Services on the "lender of last resort" function. We discussed the recent US regional bank failures and their lessons; whether the

Japanese Capitalism and Japanese Markets in 2024, With Oki Matsumoto

Jan 08 2024 35 mins

In this podcast, Jeff Young speaks with Mr. Oki Matsumoto. Oki is the founder and Chairman of Monex Inc., which was the first online Japanese brokerage. In 2018 Monex acquired Coincheck, one of Japan’s biggest crypto brokerages, and it has also branched out into other ventures including Japan Catalyst, an investment advisory arm, to pursue investment returns through engagement wi

How to Reform Italy, Francesco Giavazz

Nov 09 2023 29 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Francesco Giavazzi, Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, and regular visiting Professor at MIT. Dr. Giavazzi was most recently the Economics Advisor to Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi during his government, where he worked on structural reform, Italy's response to covid-19, and government efforts to combat inflation.

How to Undo Japan's QQE, By One Of Its Architects -- Masazumi Wakatabe Former BoJ Deputy Governor

Sep 28 2023 43 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Masazumi Wakatabe, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, and current Professor of Economics at Waseda University, Japan. Mr. Wakatabe was one of the key architects of the Bank of Japan's "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing" (QQE) policy, which has helped raised Japan's inflation rate to the Bank's target (whether that is "sus

Japan's Surprising Progress on Crypto and Web3: "How Do We Open Up?"

Feb 01 2023 20 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Emily Parker, Executive Director of Global Content at CoinDesk. Emily leads CoinDesk’s global expansion, anchors CoinDesk TV’s flagship show, “First Mover”, and analyzes crypto developments world-wide. She recently spent time in Japan, and wrote an article titled “Japan Embraces Web3 As Global Regulators Grow Wary of Crypto”

The Semiconductor Wars (with Yasu Ota)

Dec 19 2022 40 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Yasu Ota, Senior Writer, Nikkei Newspaper and author of "Semiconductor Geopolitics Toward the Year 2030: Who Will Control This Strategic Asset". In this book, Mr. Ota's goal is to "look at world and international politics through the prism of semiconductors", discussing the motivations and capabilities of the main countries, companies, and personalities

Bill Dudley, Former FOMC Vice Chair

Nov 21 2022 27 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Bill Dudley, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice Chair, Federal Open Market Committee, 2009-2018. We covered issues related to the inflation surge, the Fed's "flexible average inflation targeting" framework, crypto, a Fed "pivot", and what markets get wrong about the Fed

Inflation and Monetary Policy with Hiroshi Nakaso, Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan

Jul 25 2022 25 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Hiroshi Nakaso, Chairman of the Institute, Daiwa Institute of Research, and former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan, 2013-2018. We covered issues related to the surprising acceleration of inflation and monetary policy, the possibility of "deglobalization" in the context of the war in Ukraine, and the challenges and opportunities of "transition finance" for

Jim Cowie, The Cyber War in Ukraine

Mar 11 2022 29 mins

Jeff Young spoke with Jim Cowie, DeepMacro co-founder and Chief Data Scientist. You know him for his work on atmospheric pollution and industrial production, social media and election forecasting, economic signals from mobile phone location data, and our ever-present global macro and market "Regime" indicator, but before helping to start DeepMacro, Jim had founded a company th