Financial Fiascos

Alexander joins the show to chat about the hypocrisy and overall madness that has characterized the financial realm in the past year. Some convergent trends in wealth and data come to the forefront, driving the conversation in various directions including:

- why the stock market and the economy are so uncoupled

- the problem with hedge funds

- the chaos with GME and Robinhood

- how to address wealth inequality

- reevaluating social security

- assessing the need for a ceiling

- bad incentive structures in education

- the need for a democratization of data

- the imbalance of assessing success vs failure

- why valedictorians are almost never billionaires

any many others!

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