Money Talks from The Economist

They are quite knowledgeable and usually bring interesting and useful perspectives through their guests. But as listeners we are usually confronted with personal stories and details of the hosts that are besides the point. They seem to confuse their reporting with being media stars, presumably presupposing listeners care about how much they travel or whether they are buying a house or recently acquired a pet.

The old format of the show was similar to “The Intelligence”, ie 3 unrelated topics in little depth. I guess they wanted to copy “Checks and Balance” by doing deep dives, but it just doesn’t seem to work with the current team. The topics feel a bit uninspired and the hosts lack depth and “equilibrium thinking” or thinking about second-order effects and so on. Though maybe that’s because I’m an economist and Checks and Balance is outside my field whereas this stuff isn’t. Anyway, if they can’t make the deep dives actually deep, I’d prefer a return to the old format.