Appetite for Disruption: The Business and Regulation of FinTech

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, has continued his father’s work in the funds world.  Jan sees Bitcoin as part technology and part store of value as it matures as an asset.  He also shares his view that individual investors have insights that institutional investors sometimes miss.  Jan's journey in considering the impacts

Special Episode!  SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce.  Insights into a regulator's thinking.  Before she was nominated for a new term, Hester Peirce, a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, sat down with Troy and Lee for a wide-ranging discussion.  Commissioner Peirce provided her thoughts (with the

COVID-19 shorts No. 5. Balaji Srinivasan paints a fraught picture of the world as a result of the virus, with advances in medical technology in the face of financial system difficulties and restrictions on movement. He sees the further rise of blockchain, cryptoassets and decentralized platforms but at the cost of cent

COVID-19 shorts. Mike Novogratz talks about what he is seeing in the world, where he thinks things are going and what insights hit him during this troubling time. 

We continue unpacking with Dr. Mitchell the concept of intelligence and the importance of justice and ethics, including when it comes to computers.  In working on her book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, Professor Mitchell had a few surprises about both the successes and limits of AI, and offers

 Maybe humans do too sometimes, but we are still way better than computers at common sense.  Dr. Mitchell, a computer scientist at Portland State University and the Santa Fe Institute, defines common sense as understanding the world around you by drawing inferences and making associations from other experiences.  Commo