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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 Jan 25, 2025
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
We continue The State of Play in Battery Metals this week with Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent at Fastmarkets. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Andrea to discuss the flurry of executive orders signed by President Trump as he returned to the White House this week – and what they may mean for the battery metals markets.

Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
On our second installment of The State of Play in Battery Metals, we welcome back Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. David Greely sits down with Andy to discuss the ways the energy transition hasn't gone the way people thought it would in battery metals; where we stand after a brutal year in the battery metals business; and the need to manage risk that's driving new exchanges and resurging trading volumes.

Saturday Jan 11, 2025
Saturday Jan 11, 2025
This week, we kick off our new series The State of Play in Battery Metals with Dan McElduff, President at Abaxx Exchange. David Greely sits down with Dan to discuss the evolving commercial needs of the battery metals markets – and how Abaxx is applying the approach Dan learned at the NYMEX to design and launch physically deliverable futures contracts for nickel sulfate and lithium carbonate.

Saturday Jan 04, 2025
Saturday Jan 04, 2025
We begin the new year with part two of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined again this week by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Sacha Lifschitz, David Gornall, and Steve Lowe from the Abaxx Exchange Metals Team.
In part two of our Holiday Special, they continue their discussion on metals markets – battery metals and gold – and how better market infrastructure and financial technology can be brought to bear to make these markets fit for purpose for the commercial needs of today and into the future.

Saturday Dec 28, 2024
Saturday Dec 28, 2024
We close out the year with part one of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Sacha Lifschitz, David Gornall, and Steve Lowe from the Abaxx Exchange Metals Team.
In part one this week, they begin their discussion on metals markets – battery metals and gold – and how better market infrastructure and financial technology can be brought to bear to make these markets fit for purpose for the commercial needs of today and into the future.

Saturday Dec 21, 2024
Saturday Dec 21, 2024
We close out our Inside the Coffeehouse series this week with Steve Zwick and Renat Heuberger. Steve is Host & Producer of Bionic Planet, and Renat is CEO & Co-Founder of Terra Impact Ventures. David Greely sits down with Steve and Renat to discuss the paradoxes of the carbon markets – and what we can be doing better to bridge the gap between the complex realities and simple messages to move the conversation forward and support meaningful climate action.

Saturday Dec 14, 2024
Saturday Dec 14, 2024
We continue our Inside the Coffeehouse series this week with Dr. David Bray, Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & CEO/Principal at the Stimson Center & LDA Ventures, Inc. David Greely sits down with Dr. Bray to discuss how technology is shaping how we relate to each other today – and how we can learn from the lessons of the past to put our technology to work to empower individuals, rebuild trust, and promote a freer and more peaceful society.

Saturday Dec 07, 2024
Saturday Dec 07, 2024
This week on our Inside the Coffeehouse series, we welcome Ben Hunt back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Ben is author of Epsilon Theory and Co-Founder & CIO of Second Foundation Partners. David Greely sits down with Ben to discuss what AI is teaching us about how we use language – and how we can build digital tools not to outsource our consciousness, but to increase our ability to have trusted conversations at scale.

Saturday Nov 30, 2024
Saturday Nov 30, 2024
This holiday weekend on our Inside the Coffeehouse series, we welcome Arjun Murti and Jeff Currie back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio.
Arjun is Partner at Veriten and Publisher of "Super-Spiked" on Substack. Jeff Currie is Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways at Carlyle.
David Greely sits down with Jeff and Arjun, reuniting these two former Goldman partners and colleagues to share their perspectives on the market, economic, and political forces shaping the future of our energy markets.

Saturday Nov 23, 2024
Saturday Nov 23, 2024
We continue our Inside the Coffeehouse series where we're introducing you to Coffeehouse, our new social media platform for advancing the conversation on energy, climate, markets, and technology.
We have two guests joining us today. Susan Sakmar is Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, Board Member at Flex LNG, and Author of Energy for the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges for LNG. And Eirik Wærness is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Equinor.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Susan and Eirik for a transatlantic conversation on the future of energy following the US elections – and asks them to share their perspectives on what it may mean for the US oil and natural gas industry, LNG, and Europe.