The Essential Podcast

Updated: 16 Jan 2025 • 118 episodes
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The Essential Podcast from S&P Global is dedicated to sharing essential intelligence with those working in and affected by financial markets. Host Nathan Hunt focuses on those issues of immediate importance to global financial markets — macroeconomic trends, the credit cycle, climate risk, energy transition, and global trade — in interviews with subject matter experts from around the world.

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In this episode episode we are joined by Mohsen Bonakdarpour from S&P Global Market Intelligence and Madeline Jowdy from S&P Global Commodity Insights to discuss the findings from part one of S&P Global's recent U.S. LNG Impact Study. More S&P Global Content: Read Part One of S&P Global's U.S. LNG Impact Study The Dail

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26 Dec 2024 • EN

2024, A Year in Review

With 2024 rapidly coming to a close, we at The Essential Podcast decided to reflect on our favorite lessons of the year. Listen along as we walk down memory lane, reliving pieces of our most insightful conversations this year. Referenced Episodes: Better Faster Farther: Maggie Mertens and the Evolution of Women's Sport

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This week, Nathan is joined by Brigid Schulte, author of "Overwork: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life." Together, the duo discusses the challenges of modern work life and explore innovative solutions to combat overwork. Brigid Schulte: Book: Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest

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Nathan sits down with Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge Sir David Spiegelhalter to discuss his new book "The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck." Together, the pair covers nuances of probability, risk, and luck; as well as examine the way we understand the

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Nathan Hunt sits down with historian and author Richard Overy to discuss his latest book, "Why War." Together, the pair explores the nature of conflict and it's persistent presence in human life, examining its potential roots through a variety of lenses. Rchard Overy: Book: "Why War" (Publisher W.W. Norton & Company) M

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Nathan Hunt is joined Andrew O'Neill and Evan Gunter from S&P Global Ratings to discuss the rapidly expanding realm of private credit markets. Together, they explore the challenges facing private debt, including liquidity, transparency, and discuss how tokenization could transform this landscape. More from Evan and And

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