Something strange happened in late April: the price of oil went negative. This below-zero price tag didn’t last long, but it remains unusually cheap. And thanks to the coronavirus, it will likely stay that way for a while. In this episode Mark talks with Watson Associate Professor Jeff Colgan, an expert on the oil industry and the geopolitics that define it. They get into oil’s current price fluctuations, how it’s related to the coronavirus pandemic, and how changes to this singular commodity will affect industries and countries in a post-pandemic world.
Economics
Renegade Inc – Meet the Renegades: Christian Felber
Christian Felber is an Austrian book writer and economics and business teacher at Vienna University, and political activist. His wish is that all human beings can live a joyful, pleasure-full and free life that meets […]
Economics
Politics Theory Other: Brett Christophers – Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Brett Christophers joins PTO to talk about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why […]
Deregulation
Anat Admati: Seeing through “the banker’s new clothes”
Anat R. Admati holds a bachelor’s degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a doctorate from Yale University, and is a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her recent […]
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