The world of finance is complicated. Governed by complex ebbs and flows, and arcane algorithms. Finance is the liquid that we live in, even when we don’t see it. This series talks about the mechanisms behind global finance and finds a way inside its very heart: its black box.
Black Box is sponsored by Docebo.
Guido Brera's English voice has been generated using generative AI technology by Voiseed (www.voiseed.com)
Black Box is a Chora News podcast, produced by Chora Media and sponsored by Docebo.
Written by Guido Brera with I Diavoli.
Text translation by John Vincent.
Editorial supervision by Francesca Milano.
Intro and sound design by Luca Micheli.
Post production and editing by Luca Micheli and Mattia Liciotti.
Sound editing by Emanuele Moscatelli.
Production organization by Alex Peverengo
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Ep.45 - Donald Trump and the Mar-a-lago accord (00:11:43)
The Mar-a-Lago accord is a hypothetical project that both Trumpian economists and outside observers are following closely. It is bound to be an ambitious new direction for the international economic e...
Ep.44 - Franz Kafka and AI (00:10:38)
The rise of Artificial Intelligence brings to mind the fear of an apocalypse. In one of these dystopian predictions, thinking machines will take over the giant maze of bureaucracy at the core of moder...
Ep.43 - When Nav Sarao shook Wall Street (00:10:35)
It’s 2.42 PM on May 6 2010. Navinder Sarao, a thirty-two year old British Indian and self-taught trader, plunges Wall Street into chaos. In just a few minutes, 750 billion euros disappear from the fin...
Ep.42 - A manifesto for the future of Italy (00:13:23)
They’re called “inner areas”, they’re the spaces of a deep Italy, which have been kept far away from public debate for too long, without public investment and services, forced to a drastic fall in hab...
Ep.41 - Drugs and the politics of pain (00:14:33)
When we talk about drugs, we also have to talk about economics and urban spaces, about repressive policies and laws. We have to talk about poverty and the lack of prospects. About inefficiency, about ...
Ep.40- Minimum wage and the virus of poverty (00:12:53)
In the western world, poverty is an epidemic amongst low-wage workers. Introducing, extending and increasing the minimum wage are just some of the ways in which we can face this social crisis. In the ...
Ep.39 - This is Europe (00:13:10)
The ex-president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi delivers his report on European competitiveness, and invites us to change our current course. The European Union is going through a crisis c...
Ep.38 - The army of invisibles (00:12:41)
On the night of June 14 2017, seventy-two people die in the flames of Grenfell Tower, in North Kensington, London City. 221 feet high, 24 stories tall, housing 120 apartments, Grenfell Tower is built ...
Ep.37 - Roger Federer and high finance (00:14:04)
If tennis is a metaphor of life, then it’s also a metaphor of finance – seeing as finance determines every aspect of life itself. There’s a strong connection between the trajectories impressed onto a ...
Ep.36 - What separates us from machines (00:11:14)
There’s something in common between Soviet Lieutenant Stanislav Petrov, American activist Aaron Swartz and the co-founder of OpenAI Ilya Sutskever. In different times and ways, all three of them have ...
Ep.35 - A bitcoin a day / Part two (00:13:49)
Since June 2019, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez has been the President of the Republic of El Salvador. Bukele hasn’t just freed the country from the throttle of drug gangs, but also started an unexpected ...
Ep.34 - A bitcoin a day / Part one (00:11:15)
Leather jacket, mirror shades, a neatly trimmed beard and slick hair, Nayib Bukele has been the President of the Republic of El Salvador since 2019. Following his election, he’s repressed the drug gan...
Ep.33 - J.H. Simons, the mathematician who conquered markets (00:10:21)
This May 10 we lost James Harris Simons, a legend of high finance, the so-called “King of Quants”, the mathematician who left university and conquered the markets. In 1982, he founded the New York Ren...
Ep.32 - The bunker: the dream of the West (00:11:40)
We live in an age of permanent catastrophes: viruses and wars, nuclear threats and climate crises. If danger is everywhere, then it’s necessary to seek protection in closed up and impenetrable spaces:...
Ep.31 - The American civil war (00:11:23)
Theatres are seeing the release of Civil War, by British director Alex Garland, and in the meanwhile the United States truly seem to be under the influence of irreconcilable differences. If we look to...
Ep.30 - The carnage of Rana Plaza (00:13:02)
On April 24th 2013, at 8.45. Rana Plaza – an eight-story building which houses several activities including some textile factories, at Savar near Dacca in Bangladesh – collapses upon itself. 1,134 peo...
Ep.29 - The future of the woods (and our own) (00:10:58)
Humans have being changing the landscape and balance of the Alps for over a century. The ecosystem was compromised after the devastation of the First World War and its reconstruction based on a monocu...
Ep.28 - The scourge of the forests (00:11:09)
A catastrophe is befalling the woodlands of Italy; in the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It’s scientific name is Ips typographus, but it’s better known as the Europe...
Ep.27 - The United Markets of America (00:09:54)
The financial indicators right now are wildly optimistic. The bond market especially is looking reliable, still supported by the liquidity injected last year to save regional banks affected by the col...
Ep.26 - Obesity: the ignored epidemic (00:10:50)
Obesity is the disease of our modern affluent societies. More than one billion people suffer from it globally, which is double the amount of 1990. According to predictions, by the year 2035 they could...
Ep.25 - Silicon Valley and Social Inequality (00:10:30)
Back during the gold rush, there was a sudden explosion of inequality. In the mining towns, some owned concessions, business licenses and strategic assets – and these were the ones who made the most m...
Ep.24 - American nightmare (00:11:46)
This November, the USA will elect its president. The markets may seem to portray an image consistent growth, with unemployment under 4% and the best markets in recent memory, but the victory of the de...
Ep.23 - Seven signs from the future (00:14:14)
According to a report from ARK – invest (the monetary fund which analyses the frontiers of innovation), we can currently pinpoint seven mega-trends on the future that we’re facing already. Artificial ...
Ep.22 - Architecton: against the architecture of concrete (00:10:18)
Architecton is a documentary by Russian director Kossakovsky, presented at the latest edition of the International Berlin Film Festival. The film is a strong critique against construction in concrete ...
Ep.21 - The water crisis in the time of AI (00:11:34)
Water is the most commonly exchanged resource in the world. The “virtual market” of blue gold is four-hundred times that of petrol. But the water crisis is one of the main emergencies of our time, esp...
