Introducing: Everybody's Business

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

A smart and fun chat show about all things business. Hosted by award-winning business and economics journalists Max Chafkin (author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power) and Stacey Vanek-Smith (former co-host of NPR’s Planet Money and reporter for Marketplace), Everybody's Business is powered by the unparalleled sources and reporters who bring you Businessweek magazine’s headlines and the stories behind them. The show gives listeners a window into the discussions happening in boardrooms, Zooms and group chats in power centers around the world. From interpreting Fed meetings to the business of wolf cloning, each week Max, Stacey and their friends at Bloomberg Businessweek guide listeners through what really went on during the last week from Wall Street and Main Street. Because what’s happening with money and markets is everybody’s business.

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0:00.0	Stacey Vanek-Smith.
0:01.5	Max Chaffkin, how are you?
0:03.3	I'm good. I'm excited to talk about our new podcast, everybody's business.
0:07.9	Me too. Business news can be confusing, dull, or right now a little depressing.
0:13.7	Not a fan of the tariffs, then, Stacey.
0:16.3	Uh, no. But business is about a lot more than tariffs. It is what to invest in, what to buy, when to ask for a raise, and how the technology around us is changing our lives.
0:26.4	You're saying this stuff matters to everybody. Yes, that is why we created everybody's business. A new weekly show from Bloomberg Business Week hosted by me, Stacey Vanek-Smith, and you, Max Chafkin.
0:38.4	Every week, we'll chat about the latest business news and trends, and we'll also hear from
0:43.4	our friends at Bloomberg, like sports reporter Randall Williams.
0:46.9	Hey, I want to learn about V-Chain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're
0:52.2	doing. As well as our friends outside Bloomberg, like the great financial commentator, Kyla Scanlan.
0:58.0	And the chaos is part of the strategy, and the strategy is ultimately effing around and finding out.
1:04.0	Plus, just about everybody else.
1:06.0	Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.
1:13.3	What will happen to the banana pudding economy?
1:15.7	One of the many questions will attempt to answer.
1:18.1	So listen to everybody's business on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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