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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 climate change and the energy transition.
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Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Carbon Frontiers Episode 1 | David Shukman, Journalist & Former Science Editor, BBC
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
We kick off our new Carbon Frontiers series with David Shukman, a distinguished journalist and the former science editor of the BBC, where he reported from the climate frontlines for over 20 years.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Shukman to catch up on his continuing experiences on the frontlines of climate, government policy, corporate action, and science.

Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
We conclude our A Smarter Way series with Ben Hunt, author of Epsilon Theory & Co-Founder/CIO of Second Foundation Partners. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Ben to discuss how the narratives and stories we tell ourselves shape our decisions and may be one of our biggest obstacles to finding a smarter way forward.

Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
We welcome Rob Dannenberg into the SmarterMarkets™ studio as we continue our A Smarter Way series. Rob is the former Chief of the Central Eurasia Division at the CIA. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Rob to discuss how understanding how our adversaries think is the first step in finding smarter ways to navigate an increasingly risky geopolitical environment.

Saturday Jan 28, 2023
A Smarter Way Episode 3 | Liz Hoffman, Business & Finance Editor, Semafor
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
We’re joined this week by Liz Hoffman, Business & Finance Editor at Semafor and the author of the forthcoming book Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Liz to discuss how to provide trustworthy financial news to an interconnected world with increasingly divergent and competing viewpoints.

Saturday Jan 21, 2023
A Smarter Way Episode 2 | Keith McCullough, Founder & CEO, Hedgeye
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
We continue our series A Smarter Way with Keith McCullough, the Founder & CEO of Hedgeye. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Keith to discuss the lessons of FTX and the state of financial advice on traditional and social media.

Saturday Jan 14, 2023
A Smarter Way Episode 1 | Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance, University of Houston
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
This week, we kick off our new series, A Smarter Way, exploring better paths forward to solve our concurrent crises of commodities and climate.
Our first guest in the series is Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Craig to examine both the implications of and alternatives to Europe's recent decision to move forward with energy price caps.

Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
We kick off the new year with Arjun Murti, the Former Head of Energy Equity Research at Goldman Sachs and the Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss some of the big issues facing energy investors in 2023.

Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
We close out the year with Part 2 of our Holiday Special with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert and Josh to continue looking back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the past two years and discuss where it’s going next.

Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
This week, we present Part 1 of our end-of-year Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, to look back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the last two years and discuss where it’s going next.

Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
We close out our Financing the Energy Transition series this week with Mark Frayman, Managing Partner at Orion Industrial Ventures. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the role of venture capital in decarbonizing mining and heavy industry.