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10 Podcasts That Will Help You Understand the Economy (and Trump's Tariffs)
April 30, 2025 | Lifehacker
Hosted by economist Luigi Zingales and journalist Bethany McLean, Capitalisn’t dissects how capitalism works—and when it doesn’t. With episodes focused on corporate power, regulation, and economic inequality, the show frequently analyzes the real impacts of trade policy and government intervention. It’s ideal for listeners who want a thoughtful, critical look at the system itself.
Durbin pushes to save DOJ’s Chicago antitrust office from chopping block
April 15, 2025 | Crain's Chicago Business
University of Chicago's Stigler Center. Doha Mekki, who served as the principal deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust during the Biden ...
Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson keynote speaker at the Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference
April 10, 2025 | U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, keynote speaker at the Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference.
Amoral Drift in AI Corporate Governance
April 10, 2025 | Harvard Law Review
This mission drift — termed “amoral drift” by Professors Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales — predicts the slow death of prosocial corporate missions as a result of market pressures and lax legal guardrails.
Costs of Corruption
March 2, 2025 | Econofact Podcast
Luigi joins EconoFact Chats to discuss these issues.
Why Does Nobel Economist Eugene Fama Expect Bitcoin To Become Worthless?
February 16, 2025 | CNBCTV18
Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama, widely known as the 'Father of Modern Finance', predicts that Bitcoin will be worthless in a few years. Latha Venkatesh speaks to Professor Luigi Zingales, the interviewer speaking to whom Eugene Fama made this comment.
Bitcoin will be worth nothing in 10 years, says Nobel Prize-winning economist
February 14, 2025 | The Street
"It's only digital gold if it has a use," Eugene F. Fama said in a podcast. "If it doesn’t have a use, it's just paper. Not paper, it's air, not even air."
Nobel laureate Eugene Fama warns of potential Bitcoin collapse
February 10, 2025 | TechCentral.ie
Cryptocurrencies slammed as a risky investment on podcast
Bitcoin to go bust in 10 years? Nobel-winning economist makes a startling claim
February 9, 2025 | The Indian Express
Nobel laureate Eugene F. Fama, in a recent podcast, revealed that Bitcoin as a medium of exchange may not survive.
Bitcoin doomed? Nobel Prize-winning economist claims cryptocurrencies will go bust in 10 years
February 7, 2025 | FirstPost
During a recent episode of the podcast Capitalisn’t, Fama explained why he believes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies defy the core principles of a reliable medium of exchange.
Is Bitcoin on the brink of collapse? Nobel laureate issues dire warning
February 7, 2025 | The Economic Times
Speaking on the Capitalisn’t podcast with hosts Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean, Fama didn’t mince words about why Bitcoin—and all cryptocurrencies—are fundamentally unsustainable.
Bitcoin boom or bust to zero? Here’s what could go wrong
February 7, 2025 | GulfNews
Economist Eugene Fama, 'father of modern finance', cites Bitcoin’s biggest flaws
Financial Guru: Bitcoin Will Be Worthless in 10 Years
February 4, 2025 | NewsMax
Eugene Fama, a Nobel Prize winner known as the “Father of Modern Finance,” thinks bitcoin will be worth nothing within 10 years, Bitcoinist reports.
Nobel Prize Winner Predicts Bitcoin's Value Will Plummet To Zero In Next 10 Years—'Father Of Modern Finance' Says Crypto Antithesis Of Monetary Theory
February 2, 2025 | Benzinga Crypto
During an interview on the Capitalisn't podcast, the “father of modern finance” was asked about the likelihood of Bitcoin’s value plummeting to zero in the next 10 years, to which he replied, “I would say it’s close to one.”
Eugene Fama Warns Bitcoin Value May Drop to Zero by 2035
February 2, 2025 | Equifi
During a recent appearance on the Capitalisn’t podcast, Fama highlighted fundamental flaws in Bitcoin’s design, which, according to him, prevent it from being a sustainable medium of exchange.
Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Declares Bitcoin’s Inevitable Collapse: A 10-Year Countdown Begins
February 2, 2025 | Africa Logistics
In a bold and thought-provoking statement, Nobel laureate Eugene Fama has predicted that Bitcoin, the world’s most prominent cryptocurrency, is destined to become worthless within the next decade.
"Bitcoin Will Be Worth $0 in 10 Years"... Nobel Laureate's Dire Warning
February 2, 2025 | Bloomingbit
According to crypto-focused media outlets Crypto News and ProMarket on the 2nd (local time), Professor Fama stated on the podcast 'Capitalisn't' on the 30th of last month that Bitcoin cannot fulfill the role of currency, asserting that "the probability of Bitcoin's value dropping to $0 within 10 years is almost 100%."
Bitcoin will eventually be zero, economist predicts: Here’s when
February 1, 2025 | Crypto.news
Why? Cryptocurrencies “violate all the rules of a medium of exchange,” Fama said on the Jan. 30 episode of Capitalisn't. “They don’t have a stable real value. You know, they have highly variable real value. That kind of medium of exchange is not supposed to survive.”
Bitcoin vai chegar a zero em 10 anos, diz Nobel de Economia
January 30, 2025 | Startups.br
Em conversa com o economista Luigi Zingales e a jornalista Bethany McLean no podcast Capitalisn't (gostaram do trocadilho?), Gene Fama reconhece a dificuldade de fazer previsões e diz que os modelos econômicos não são uma verdade absoluta.
Trump 2025 Versus Trump 2016
January 15, 2025 | Chicago Booth Review Podcast
As we prepare for another Trump inauguration, we’re digging into the CBR archives to revisit a conversation between Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and Amir Sufi about the fundamentals behind Trump’s appeal. The conversation was filmed in May 2016 as part of our Big Question video series, which brings together Booth faculty for in-depth discussions. We wanted to bring it back because we were struck more by a sense of continuity than change.