100 episodes

The Essential Podcast from S&P Global is dedicated to sharing essential intelligence with those working in and affected by financial markets. Host Nathan Hunt focuses on those issues of immediate importance to global financial markets — macroeconomic trends, the credit cycle, climate risk, energy transition, and global trade — in interviews with subject matter experts from around the world.

The Essential Podcast S&P Global

    • Business
    • 4.6 • 15 Ratings

The Essential Podcast from S&P Global is dedicated to sharing essential intelligence with those working in and affected by financial markets. Host Nathan Hunt focuses on those issues of immediate importance to global financial markets — macroeconomic trends, the credit cycle, climate risk, energy transition, and global trade — in interviews with subject matter experts from around the world.

    Making Sense of Oil Markets with Andy Critchlow

    Making Sense of Oil Markets with Andy Critchlow

    Andy Critchlow, S&P Globals Head of EMEA News, joins the podcast to help Nathan get a better grasp on what's happening with Global Oil Markets.

    • 40 min
    Looking Ahead to CERAweek with Atul Arya

    Looking Ahead to CERAweek with Atul Arya

    In this episode of the The Essential Podcast, Nathan is join by Atul Arya, Chief Energy Strategist at S&P Global to discuss what Atul had seen recently at The World Economic Forum Meeting in 2024, as well as what Atul is looking forward to as we approach CERAWeek 2024. 
    More CERAweek Content:
    Atul's New CERAweek Podcast: https://ceraweek.com/podcast/index.html
    CERAweek's Website: ceraweek.com

    • 29 min
    Coronation And Collapse: The Story Of The Bond King With Mary Childs

    Coronation And Collapse: The Story Of The Bond King With Mary Childs

    In this episode, financial journalist and co-host of NPR's "Planet Money" Mary Childs joins the podcast to discuss her book "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All."

    • 34 min
    2023, A Year in Review

    2023, A Year in Review

    With 2023 rapidly coming to a close, we at The Essential Podcast decided to reflect on our favorite lessons of the year. Listen along as we walk down memory lane, reliving pieces of our most insightful conversations this year.

    • 30 min
    Searching for True Innovation, Thomas Ramge on the Brink of Utopia

    Searching for True Innovation, Thomas Ramge on the Brink of Utopia

    Thomas Ramge, co-author of "On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems" joins the podcast to discuss innovation, techno-optimism, and the precipass of a utopian-ish society.

    • 35 min
    Number Go Up: Crypto Scam, The Crypto Crash, and Zeke Faux's Absurdist Masterpiece

    Number Go Up: Crypto Scam, The Crypto Crash, and Zeke Faux's Absurdist Masterpiece

    In this episode, we review what past events and circumstances have led us to the recent cryptocurrency news plastering the headlines through the lens of author Zeke Faux's absurdist masterpiece titled "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall." Together with Zeke, we cover a wide range of topics including the FTX fraud, the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, Tether, and the bizare culture within certain crypto communities.

    • 35 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

Steveschrae ,

Insightful

3 episodes in. Some of the most insightful economic commentary I'm aware of, and with an impressive objectivity.

Ekseptional ,

Lazy

Just listened to an episode about Black inclusion in Finance that included no Black people among the speakers. Bizarrely tone deaf and lazy.

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