Humans have, mostly, made babies the same way for millenia. That kind of inertia is catnip to Silicon Valley investors who are pouring money into technology like embryo screening. On this week’s show, we explore the companies offering fertility tech and hear why some don’t shy away from terms like eugenics.

Guests and hosts:

• Jonathan Anomaly, co-founder of Herasight
• Michelle Kwok, principal at Draper
• Shera Avi-Yonah, The Economist’s business correspondent
• Alice Fulwood, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Ethan Wu, co-host of “Money Talks”

Topics covered:

• Fertility industry
• Embryo screening
• Eugenics

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Conspiracy theories were rife when Kevin Warsh was made Fed chair. Was he a hawk in dove's clothing or a dove dressed as a hawk? The tinfoil hats came out because Mr Warsh himself remained tight-lipped. Now, though, he has presided over two rate-setting meetings at the Fed. So what have we learnt about the world’s most important central banker?

Guests and hosts:

• Josh Roberts, The Economist’s capital markets correspondent
• Archie Hall, The Economist’s acting economics editor
• Alex Domash, The Economist’s acting US economics editor

Topics covered:

• Kevin Warsh
• The Federal Reserve
• Donald Trump

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Travelling for work is rarely glamorous. And nowhere is that more true than at The Economist. Our correspondents have spent the last four decades travelling the world, expensing Big Macs in service of one aim: to understand how currencies work. To celebrate the Big Mac index’s 40th birthday, we share what we’ve learnt.

Guests and hosts:

• Eswar Prasad, economics professor at Cornell University
• Simon Cox, The Economist’s China economics editor
• Josh Roberts, The Economist’s capital markets correspondent
• Ethan Wu, co-host of “Money Talks”

Topics covered:

• Big Mac Index
• Currencies
• Purchasing Power Parity

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Andy Burnham is Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. Can he and his chancellor, John Healey, break the British curse of sluggish growth, high debt and soaring spending? And, crucially, can he survive longer than Keir Starmer?

Guests and hosts:

• Kristina Hooper, chief market strategist at Man Group
• Duncan Robinson, The Economist’s political editor and Bagehot columnist
• Josh Roberts, The Economist’s capital markets correspondent
• Ethan Wu, co-host of “Money Talks”

Topics covered:

• Andy Burnham
• John Healey
• British economy

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Eli Lilly has been selling pills to sick people for 150 years. That business model has made it a trillion-dollar company. But now, the firm’s CEO David Ricks wants to do something different. He wants to push treatments that stop people getting sick in the first place. Will it work?

Guests and hosts:

• David Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly
• Shailesh Chitnis, The Economist’s global business writer
• Mike Bird, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Alice Fulwood, co-host of “Money Talks”

Topics covered:

• Eli Lilly
• AI
• GLP-1s

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Predictions are a feature of The Economist. The inevitable result is that we drop the occasional clanger. And our big mistakes, it seems, have often had something to do with oil. So why is the black stuff our bête noire?

Guests and hosts:

• Ethan Wu, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Mike Bird, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Alice Fulwood, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Matthieu Favas, The Economist's commodities editor

Topics covered:

• Oil
• Iran
• The Strait of Hormuz

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America’s AI giants have a problem. The likes of Google, Meta and Microsoft want to spend $3trn on data centres over the next four years. But a backlash among Americans, who don’t want sheds full of chips humming away near their backyards, has made it difficult to find a spot to build them. Will that slow the AI race?

Hosts:

• Alice Fulwood, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Mike Bird, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Ethan Wu, co-host of “Money Talks”

Topics covered:

• AI
• Data centres
• NIMBYism

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The world’s wealthy are increasingly on the move, and a booming number of advisors is available to help them. The investment-migration businesses turned over an estimated $40bn last year, twice as much as before the pandemic. So where are they advising the footloose ultra-rich to go?

Guests and hosts:

• Dominic Volek of Henley & Partners
• Ron Klasko, co-founder of Exodus Migration
• Anjani Trivedi, The Economist's global business correspondent
• Mike Bird, co-host of “Money Talks”
• Alice Fulwood, co-host of “Money Talks”

Topics covered:

• Citizenship by investment
• Expat advisors
• Dubai

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