Building workforce diversity is challenging in good times, but the effort will grow even more complicated as the economy turns. The key to lasting change is to embed diversity across a firm's operations, from human resources and recruiting to c

What’s the Bright Future for America’s Post-industrial Cities?

Jul 12th, 2022 32m 58s

America's cities face enough challenges without having to think about rising prices and slowing growth. Scranton, Pa., is well known as the childhood home of President Joe Biden and television's "The Office," but it's also a window to the broad

Is Russia a Country "Without a Future"?

Jun 2nd, 2022 31m 34s

In spite of all that has been done to isolate Russia, the ruble has actually strengthened and its central bank has cut interest rates. But one of the foremost experts on the Russian economy explains how things are about to get much worse and wh

Will The U.S. Miss Out On Asia's Next Dynamic Chapter?

May 18th, 2022 35m 56s

Smart Take examines risks to the American economy if it is excluded from accelerating trade talks in the world's fastest-growing region. Wendy Cutler, former top U.S. negotiator for Asia, and Christopher Smart review just what's at stake in the

Why Does America Urgently Need a Digital Dollar?

May 10th, 2022 37m 45s

As investors ask how China's yuan may challenge the dollar's reserve status, the much larger disruption will come from the cryptocurrency and stable coin alternatives that have exploded on the scene. Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of th

How Russia Sanctions Echo Far Beyond Russia

Apr 25th, 2022 48m 20s

Remember the #BRICS? In this episode of Smart Take, Professor and Russia Scholar Cynthia Roberts tells Christopher Smart why Beijing, New Delhi, Brasilia and Pretoria are so reluctant to sign up to American and European sanctions imposed on Mos

Is What's Good for GM Still Good for America?

Apr 13th, 2022 27m 33s

Chief Economist Elaine Buckberg joins Smart Take to explain how the auto industry approaches the largest issues determining America's future growth path, including employment, supply chains, innovation, and climate change.

How Russia's Invasion Transformed Europe -- and the Transatlantic Partnership

Mar 15th, 2022 37m 20s

Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's former ambassador to the United States, France and Turkey, joins Christopher Smart to discuss how the Ukraine crisis has transformed European security cooperation -- and relations with Washington, too.

Why Russia Can't Actually Win and What It Means for Putin

Mar 7th, 2022 31m 34s

Russia's invasion has been longer and more difficult than anyone expected, raising questions about what victory might actually look like. Eric Rubin, who has served in both Moscow and Kyiv as one of America's most distinguished diplomats, expla

Can The Fed Fight Inflation and Racial Inequality?

Feb 28th, 2022 32m 1s

Christopher Smart speaks with Seth Carpenter, chief global economist at Morgan Stanley and former assistant secretary of the treasury. Seth talks about challenges facing monetary policy officials today and his research on the disproportionate i

What's Next for Putin, Ukraine and Markets?

Feb 8th, 2022 30m 53s

Mike McFaul, Stanford Professor and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and Christopher Smart, look at conflict agitating markets and why it’s as easy for Putin to attack as it is for him to back down.Recorded February 2, 2022 | Stanford, CA & Bo

So Just Where Should Investors Hunt For Yield?

Jan 25th, 2022 29m 42s

The answer may surprise you. Christopher Smart is joined by Peter Blair Henry, Dean Emeritus of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and a leading expert in global capital flows. Peter argues there remains enormous potential for growth—an

How Stable are ‘Stable Coins'?

Jan 13th, 2022 26m 12s

As a colorful cast of crypto-currencies aims to disrupt global finance, listen to how one of the world’s leading regulators hopes to make the first arrivals as boring as possible. Recorded December 2, 2021 | London, England & Boston, MA

Will Post-Pandemic Central Banks Ever Really Raise Rates?

Jan 4th, 2022 30m 1s

Central banks intervened rapidly and decisively when the pandemic hit, but in many ways that was the easy part. We assess the challenges ahead for the world’s monetary policy with a leading practitioner and scholar Recorded November 9, 2021 | N

Where Will Government Climate Spending Go?

Dec 22nd, 2021 26m 28s

Christopher Smart is joined by Kelly Sims Gallagher, academic dean and director of the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, former White House climate advisor.There may not be nearly enough money to finance the climat

Can America Keep Spending Like This?

Dec 7th, 2021 29m 5s

As the debate over how much to tax and spend continues to unfold in Washington, we ask one of the country’s top experts on the U.S. budget process what we should watch for and what it will mean for the recovery. Head of the Barings Investment I

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