Capitalism through markets, power, and policy.
Wall Street Week tracks the places where capital meets power: Iran, Venezuela, Japan, China, the Fed, housing, defense, and energy. Its segments move quickly from headline risk to balance sheets, supply chains, regulation, and the people making decisions.
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Wall Street Week is a global business program with a policy mind. Its center of gravity is capitalism, but not in the abstract. The show follows how money, power, production, law, and geopolitics collide in specific places. Iran means oil, but also fertilizer, farmers, food prices, airlines, military contractors, deficits, and the dollar. China means critical minerals, not just diplomatic tension. Japan becomes a story about asset bubbles, deflation, patient capital, and a possible investment reset after decades of stagnation. Venezuela is treated through U.S. goals, oil access, criminal charges, and the limits of regime-change rhetoric. The pace is crisp. Segments are usually framed with a sharp question, then handed to someone with direct experience in government, finance, business, or reporting. Hank Paulson brings the lens of Goldman Sachs and the Treasury during the financial crisis. Richard Haass brings a foreign-policy frame to Iran and Venezuela. Chrystia Freeland appears around the IMF and World Bank agenda. Patrick McGee explains Apple’s China entanglements and AI gap. The show also has range. It can put Swedish defense spending next to private credit worries, then shift to robotaxis, New Zealand farming, Mount Everest as a business, Indian retail derivatives, or small investors buying homes to rent and flip. That breadth is the point. Wall Street Week is not a stock-picking chat or a single-market briefing. It is a weekly map of how capital moves when governments act, supply chains tighten, technology disappoints, and institutions are tested. The tone is composed and authoritative, with newsroom polish and an appetite for second-order effects. It suits listeners who follow markets, but care just as much about why those markets are moving.
Made for: For listeners who follow global markets, economic policy, and geopolitical risk, especially those who want more than a headline recap. It fits investors, business readers, policy watchers, and finance-minded news listeners.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its habit of tracing one story across many consequences: war to fertilizer, defense spending to balance sheets, AI competition to Apple’s China exposure. It connects boardrooms, supply chains, and households in a single editorial frame.
Wall Street Week tells the stories of capitalism from around the world, hosted by David Westin in New York.
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A wide-ranging briefing connects private-credit strain, NATO-driven defense growth and political frustration across several countries.
This episode asks where economic pressure is likely to surface next, connecting Europe's defense buildup with private credit and growing political frustration.
A grounded policy conversation shaped by a farmer's memory of New Zealand's subsidy reforms.
The episode works best when it stays close to Peter Jex Blake's memory of New Zealand's subsidy reforms. His story gives the policy debate a lived scale: farmers dealing with halved incomes, soaring interest rates, protest, and strained bank statements before any improvement…
A careful look at prediction markets, polling practice, and why interpretation still does so much of the work.
The episode asks whether prediction markets can stand in for polls, then moves into the quieter work that decides how useful either one can be: sampling, polling practice, and interpretation.
Muslim political thought for a burning world.
Dry politics for bad political weather.
Plain-language civics with historical teeth.
Hard conversations from the operational edge.
Russia, power, and narrative under pressure.
Left politics with teeth and range.
David Weston discusses the historical origins of American research universities and their relationship with the federal government, leading up to President Trump's crackdown on colleges.
CoreCivic's CEO explains how Trump's historic deportation drive fuels their private detention business.
The U.S. seizes Venezuela's president for trial, revealing a primary goal of securing American oil company access.
Bloomberg reports on President Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs on April 2, 2025, including a 10% baseline and higher rates on China, the EU, and others, with political reactions from Democrats and Republicans.
Kevin Hassett told the Economic Club of New York that federal employment fell by about 300,000 and that the cut saves roughly $500 billion over 10 years.
Hank Paulson discusses the economic impacts of the Iran war, energy disruptions, copper supply strain, and the US tax debate.
Promotional episode for Bloomberg Daybreak Europe podcast, previewing topics like Iran war, IMF meetings, and US-China rare earth competition.
Wall Street Week explores Japan's economic stagnation and the investment opportunities Apollo Global Management sees in its current transformation.
This episode covers the impact of the Iran war on global fertilizer supplies, housing affordability solutions in Melbourne and Singapore, and a looming matcha shortage.
David Westin and Stephen Ratner examine softer U.S.
Wall Street Week interviews former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein about Iran's war, oil-market risk, the absence of a major reckoning since 2008, and the widening gap between asset owners and non-owners.
Wall Street Week examines President Trump’s tariffs with Jason Furman, who says the U.S.
Wall Street Week examines Japan’s shift from three decades of deflation and stagnation toward roughly 3% inflation, corporate reform, and new investment demand.
Wall Street Week examines the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision striking down Donald Trump's IEPA-based global and fentanyl-related tariffs.
Stephen Rattner says U.S.
Outgoing Atlanta Fed President Rafael Bostic says inflation that has sat "well above our target for the better part of two years" is "not acceptable," and he wants policy to stay restrictive until it returns to 2%.
Wall Street Week, with Michael McKee filling in for David Weston, opens with President Trump's pick of Kevin Warsh to succeed Jay Powell in May, which Fed Governor Stephen Myron calls "a fantastic pick." Jason Furman says the Fed's rate hold reflected diminished risks and explains why tariffs have not produced more inflation, noting businesses have absorbed costs and automakers are "selling cars at a loss." Steve Ratner of Willett Advisors criticizes the administration's equity stakes in Intel (10%) and MP Materials (15%) as having no "rhyme or reason," contrasting them with the 61% GM stake taken in 2009.
This episode covers US-Venezuela policy, New Zealand's approach to farming without subsidies, the future of robotaxis, and the business of Mount Everest climbing.
This episode of Wall Street Week covers President Trump's conflict with the Fed over jobs data, Australia's gold mining boom, and issues in India's derivatives market.
This episode previews the Jackson Hole symposium, discusses Apple's AI ambitions and legal concerns about the rule of law, and examines the return of small investors in housing.