Smart Girl Dumb Questions: Will the Market Crash in 2026? With Andrew Ross Sorkin

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Today we're playing you an episode of Smart Girl Dumb Questions, a show hosted by journalist and frequent Open to Debate guest moderator Nayeema Raza. She speaks to Andrew Ross Sorkin about some highly-debated topics, from a looming market crash to AI battles to … whether we actually learned anything from past recessions (especially that one in 2008!). Get more Smart Girl Dumb Questions on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get podcasts. Nayeema has compelling conversations with Mark Cuban on if billionaires can save us, Paul Krugman about whether we’re counting the economy wrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye about what happened to expertise and science guys and Esther Perel on why it’s harder to fall in love in 2020s vs the 1980s. Guaranteed to make you laugh & learn every Tuesday. We also highly recommend Andrew Ross Sorkin’s bestselling book ⁠1929⁠. For more insightful conversation, visit Open to Debate's Substack—share your perspectives and subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated insights from our debaters, moderators, and staff. Follow Open to Debate on Youtube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and TikTok to stay connected with our mission and ongoing debates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Hey podcast listeners, John Donvan here. As you know, one of our guest moderators is the
0:34.8	excellent Naima Raza. Naima has done debates for us on free will, on the
0:39.8	American Dream, and the state of dating apps, and she has her own podcast called Smart Girl
0:45.9	Dumb Questions. We wanted to share one of our favorite recent episodes of Smart Girl
0:51.1	Dumb Questions. It's a conversation with New York Times deal book editor,
0:54.7	Andrew Ross Sorkin, where they discuss our cultural obsession with money, why billionaires
1:00.3	from J.P. Morgan to Elon Musk do not acknowledge their power, and whether we're due for another
1:05.2	economic crash. And what we did not learn from the last ones, especially 2008, we really think
1:10.5	you're going to enjoy it.
1:11.2	And if you do, you should, of course, check out more smart girl dumb questions. You can subscribe
1:16.2	wherever you listen. This is selfish to say. Anything that I do that's half-decent takes a lot of
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1:27.5	morning, working on the newsletter. It just, it doesn't just like, it's not a natural act for me.
1:33.0	I have to study. I have to prepare. So it's not the whole idea that you could just like bang, bang,
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