We kick off this year’s Summer Playlist with Travis Schwab, CEO at Eventus. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Travis to discuss the role of trade surveillance in making markets not only smarter, but safer – and how this essential piece of market infrastructure is meeting the challenge of new technologies and new market conditions.
Travis’ Summer Playlist book picks:
- Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- Dune [series] by Frank Herbert
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Count Zero by William Gibson
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
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We continue our Summer Playlist 2024 this week with Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten and Publisher of Super-Spiked on Substack. David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss America’s energy independence – and what it will take to maintain America’s energy exceptionalism to help meet rising global demand into a future of lower carbon and more sustainable energy.
Arjun’s Summer Playlist book picks:
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Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with David Szybunka, Senior Portfolio Manager & Managing Director of the Energy Team at Canoe Financial. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with David to discuss what’s familiar – and what’s different – in this commodity cycle, as well as his full-cycle approach to investing in all things energy.
David’s Summer Playlist book pick:
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We continue our Summer Playlist this week with Peter Zaman. Peter is a Partner at HFW in Singapore and has been practicing law in climate finance and environmental markets since 2004. David Greely sits down with Peter to talk about the state of play in carbon markets. They discuss what the SBTi statements this week, the uncertainties facing CORSIA participants, and the EU’s new methane regulation tell us about how the disputes over the right approach to addressing carbon emissions are having practical consequences on our ability to make meaningful progress – and what we need to be doing next.
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- HFW CORSIA briefings discussed during the conversation:
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This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Edwin Dorsey, author of “The Bear Cave” on Substack, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Edwin to discuss his work and views on the short side of the stock market – and its role in making markets smarter by finding the serious problems that others may not see yet.
Edwin’s Summer Playlist book pick: Black Girl from Pyongyang by Monica Macias
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Our Summer Playlist continues this week with Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading at Trafigura. David Greely sits down with Hannah to discuss how seemingly separate EU regulations on corporate green claims and reporting are coming together to create a new definition of net zero and a new approach to driving corporate climate action.
Hannah’s Summer Playlist book picks:
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Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode.AI. David Greely sits down with Michelle to discuss privacy in the age of data as a highly valuable commodity – and the focus we need to be putting on data supply chains and the data industry in the wake of the National Public Data breach.
Michelle’s Summer Playlist book picks:
- Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage by Doug Laney
- How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas Hubbard
- Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University by Richard White
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We close out our Summer Playlist this week with Ted Merz, Founder of Principles Media. David Greely sits down with Ted to discuss the growing imperative for business leaders to tell their story – and how technology is changing the nature of how we write our stories and what our readers value in them.
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