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Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, sits down with Fintech Beat’s Chris Brummer about the state of his company, XRP, Facebook’s Libra, Cryptocurrency, and the vast universe of the regulatory unknown. Show Notes: Blockchain technology may help streamline the flow of $550 billion dollars this year Fintech Beat explores how Uber is much more than […]
Gary Abernathy, a former staffer for Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, assesses the impeachment inquiry from the GOP heartland and finds it wanting. And CQ Roll Call reporter Katherine Tully-McManus describes how House Republicans protested the inquiry in dramatic fashion this week. They find the closed-door style of the inquiry unsavory. Show notes: Impeachment […]
Iowa plays a big role in presidential politics because of its first-in-the-nation caucuses. Even by that standard, though, the Iowa State Fair (which ended last weekend) felt busier than usual as candidates for offices from the presidency on down flooded the event. Jason Dick, host of Roll Call’s Political Theater podcast, attended the fair, and […]
In this special Labor Day episode Fintech Beat explores the unique relationship between hip-hop and crypto and unveils its first annual Fintech Beat playlist — culled from listener suggestions. Show Notes: IMF embraces new central bank digital currencies A conversation with Domitille Dessertine, head of fintech in France Digging further into Libra’s origin […]
How do you plan for the unplanned? That was the challenge for advance teams paving the way for the recent G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, and for President Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to Poland and, until recently, Denmark. That includes CQ Roll Call White House correspondent John T. Bennett, who helped plan press logistics […]
rollcall Even though Congress is still in a prolonged summer recess, spending battles between the White House and Congress have only been multiplying. The Trump administration plans to divert money from disaster relief and other programs to fund more immigration detention beds and some immigration court facilities – and a lot of senior appropriators aren’t happy […]
Real-estate investing isn’t just for the rich anymore. Now, it’s possible for anyone to buy pieces of real estate from New York to Los Angeles on a phone. Fintech Beat talks with the CEO of Fundrise, a leading real estate crowdfunding platform, about radical changes coming to investing, and what an economic slowdown could […]
Fintech Beat explores the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to investing in financial technology. Host Chris Brummer explores when it may make sense to invest and when it may not. Here is a sneak peak into the ABC’s of fintech investing. Show Notes: The Building Buyer The Comptroller of […]
Traditional financial institutions have been scrambling to keep up with the pace of financial innovation in recent years and the Bank of England is no exception. In this episode, Fintech Beat jumps across the pond to check out the link between Brexit and fintech, BOE’s take on the Facebook coin and how the world’s eighth […]
CQ Roll Call’s Budget Editor Peter Cohn combed through the numbers since Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 and found something remarkable: the spending caps produced some results but most of the savings were because of factors out of Congress’ hands. Subscribe to this podcast below
rollcall Public pressure on lawmakers is growing across the country to reduce gun violence, but Congress may only be able to pass incremental legislation, explains CQ Roll Call’s legal affairs writer Todd Ruger. In the second segment of this podcast, we explore how Congress and a South Carolina center are trying to address the loss […]
Fintech Beat talks with one of our listeners, a former general counsel of the CFTC, who shares his thoughts on vulnerabilities in crypto exchanges. We then turn overseas to hear from France’s leading fintech regulator, Domitille Dessertine, to learn more about the country’s ambitious efforts to classify and conduct cryptocurrency transactions.
rollcall Filmmaker David Modigliani got to first base with Beto O’Rourke. At an amateur club baseball game in Austin, Texas, in early 2017, O’Rourke, center fielder for the Los Diablitos de El Paso, singled and introduced himself to Modigliani, first baseman for the Texas Playboys Baseball Club, and said he was a congressman running for Senate. […]
RollCall As White House and congressional leaders prepare for another meeting this week to get a bipartisan spending caps deal, CQ Roll Call’s Paul M. Krawzak, in this episode, unpacks the political sticking points, the pros and cons of a one-year or two-year agreement, and other potential obstacles. Show Notes: One-year spending cap option, […]
In our first episode, we bring you a sneak preview of the Fintech Beat podcast with renowned fintech regulation expert and host, Chris Brummer. We’ll bring the listener onto the ground floor of what we plan to bring to market in future episodes. There are cryptocurrencies, blockchains, artificial intelligence and all intersections of finance, technology […]
rollcall Democrats are pushing new changes to the tax code aimed at helping low income individuals and families, with some lawmakers calling for an increase to the corporate tax rate. In this episode of the CQ Budget podcast, CQ Roll Call’s Doug Sword explains who stands to gain and lose. Dems push craft beer […]
rollcall Harry Reid might have retired from the Senate in 2017 and started battling cancer a year later, but the former Senate Democratic leader doesn’t seem to be the retiring type, especially when it comes to Nevada politics. "I’m a political junkie, to say the least," he tells our own Niels Lesniewski in a wide-ranging […]
rollcall Everything about Werner Herzog becomes theater. Talk to the iconic German filmmaker about his documentary "Meeting Gorbachev" and he might just end up scolding you about your interpretation of Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. Scroll through historic footage of the fall of the Iron Curtain, and you could end up learning how much beer garden slugs […]
rollcall In his first public statement after his two-year probe, Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, said this week that he had never considered charging President Donald Trump with a crime as he investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election. That’s emboldened those in Congress who say representatives must read Mueller’s report, which […]
The 2010 health care law has left tens of millions uninsured, leading to a groundswell of support from the left for a single-payer system, or "Medicare for All." Health care reporter Mary Ellen McIntire explains why progressives are ready to move on, what it would take politically to get there, and how they would […]