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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs1h 23m
Watch Live: 2020 Goldman Sachs Gives Analyst Impact Fund Finals
Eric Lane, Julian Salisbury, David Solomon, Stephen Scher, John Rogers, Asahi Pompei, Anne Black, Mabel, Abe, Olu, Anna Skoglund, Chris Johnson, Kim Posnett, Priyanka Pasi, Gauri, Mina Flynn, Jennifer Yume, Matthew, Av, Anshul Sugabi, Ruchand, Prashant, Khalil Razi, Carlos, Earl Hunt, Sarah Condon, Laura, Kia Williams, Arthur, Carrie Halio, Bridget Martinez, Alistair
The 2020 Analyst Impact Fund Finals engaged 733 Goldman Sachs analysts to evaluate non-profit proposals addressing critical global challenges like healthcare, climate change, and equity through a hybrid virtual and in-person format. Six finalist teams pitched their organizations, with Serum winning the $250,000 first-prize grant and an additional $25,000 "fan favorite" award, while Black Girl Ventures and CHaN secured second and third place respectively. This fifth annual competition has facilitated over $2.1 million in total grants to 69 nonprofits since its inception, serving as a key mechanism for junior talent to drive philanthropic impact and cross-office collaboration.
- Jane Street1h 3m
An Inside Look at Jane Street’s Tech Internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang
Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, Grace Zhang, Ron Minsky
Jane Street's internship program recruits diverse candidates without requiring prior OCaml knowledge, grounding them in a boot camp before assigning them to dual-team rotations on production-critical infrastructure. Recent projects by interns such as Grace Yang and Matt Els have directly implemented risk management features and redesigned API systems, while a rigorous code review culture ensures these contributions are safely integrated into live environments. The transition from intern to full-time engineer involves navigating a steep technical learning curve and balancing feedback dynamics within a community that actively pursues demographic diversity across non-traditional feeder schools.
- The Economist14 min
Election 2020: What has President Trump done to America?
The Trump administration's term was defined by aggressive domestic policy shifts, including major tax cuts, the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, and the appointment of 217 federal judges that solidified conservative judicial control. Internationally, the "America First" strategy dismantled NAFTA, initiated a trade war with China, and drastically reduced refugee admissions while relying on executive orders to enforce strict immigration borders. These actions collectively accelerated political polarization and rewrote institutional norms in ways that analysts project will constrain future Democratic ambitions and persist beyond the administration's tenure.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Jean Hynes, Managing Partner of Wellington Management
Jean Hines assumes the role of CEO at Wellington Management in July 2021, leveraging her expertise as a leading healthcare portfolio manager to guide the firm's $1.2 trillion asset portfolio across 50 distinct investment boutiques. Hines outlines critical long-term investment drivers, including global population aging and biomedical innovation, while emphasizing an "open collaborative platform" that grants portfolio managers autonomy within a unified research framework. Her leadership transition reflects a strategic shift toward integrating forward-looking regulatory and macroeconomic analysis, a methodology refined through her own career experiences and a commitment to cultivating deep, continuous learning for future investors.
- Jane Street1h 4m
Building a Functional Email Server with Dominick LoBraico
Faced with the security risks and operational rigidity of a legacy mail server, Jane Street engineers replaced the system with MailCore, a homegrown server implemented in OCaml where configuration is expressed as composable code. To ensure safety during the one-year migration, the team deployed a parallel shadow instance that continuously diffed outputs against the legacy system, effectively reverse-engineering implicit knowledge while eliminating memory-safety bugs common in C-based alternatives. This architectural shift transformed email management into a software culture practice, allowing generalist engineers to safely modify routing and filtering logic using standard OCaml tools rather than relying on specialized knowledge of opaque custom domains.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 52m
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty | The Lunar Society #10
Charles Murray outlines his five-year research project *Human Accomplishment*, which utilizes historiometric data to demonstrate that elite human achievement is driven by a left-skewed distribution of work, fanatical work ethic, and historical cultural incentives rather than mere talent or eccentricity. The work argues that Western dominance in knowledge creation stemmed from specific theological and technical shifts, while contemporary societal decline is attributed to regulatory sclerosis, cultural decadence, and the erosion of free speech in social sciences. Murray concludes with a dual strategy for future progress: advocating for civil disobedience to dismantle the regulatory state and urging young professionals to cultivate a "carving for the eye of God" mentality to achieve genuine, non-derivative success.
- The Economist11 min
Covid-19: how to fix the economy
The pandemic triggered an unprecedented synchronized global economic shock, forcing governments in the US, UK, and Europe to deploy trillions in stimulus and innovative income support to mitigate record unemployment and prevent social instability. This crisis has accelerated structural shifts toward remote work, digital adoption, and supply chain protectionism, challenging policymakers to balance immediate fiscal relief with long-term sustainability while avoiding the austerity errors of the past decade. Ultimately, the scale of government intervention offers a critical window to reform the relationship between the state and citizens, though success depends on managing rising debt burdens and emerging populist tensions.
- Milken Institute1h 7m
Technology and the Opening of Trade
Eugene Cornelius, Marianne Jason, Mary Yang, Kevin Smith-Ramos, Fred Hogberg
A panel of experts from the OECD, Canada, Mexico, and the US Ex-Im Bank emphasized that modernizing trade agreements like USMCA and reforming the WTO are critical to helping SMEs overcome financing barriers and digital divides. The discussion highlighted a divergence in national strategies, contrasting the US's fragmented agency approach with Canada's consolidated model while stressing the need for domestic policies to bolster workforce readiness alongside international market access. Ultimately, participants agreed that sustainable global growth requires addressing social inequities and leveraging digital tools to democratize trade participation for smaller enterprises and developing economies.
- Milken Institute1h 20m
Part 1: A Conversation with US Department of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia | Part 2: The Future of W
Eugene Scalia, Jane Oates, Milo Ortiz-Oakley, Vivian Ming, Steve Isak, Sarita Gupta
A U.S. administration official outlines a post-pandemic economic strategy centered on revitalizing growth through apprenticeship expansion, tax incentives, and the reclassification of broadband as critical infrastructure. Concurrently, experts from the aerospace, education, and philanthropy sectors highlight persistent challenges regarding workforce equity, racial bias in technology, and the urgent need to shift higher education toward inclusive, competency-based models. These coordinated efforts aim to address structural labor market shifts while ensuring that underrepresented groups benefit from renewed economic opportunities.
- Jane Street1h 8m
Language Design with Leo White
Jane Street compiler team member Leo White discusses OCaml's unique design philosophy, which balances pure mathematical type theory with practical modularity to optimize for compiler construction. He outlines current limitations in memory layout and dependent types that hinder systems programming, while highlighting upcoming features like modular implicits and algebraic effects aimed at resolving compositionality issues without sacrificing safety. The conversation further details Jane Street's collaborative upstream strategy, which uses internal forks to experiment with risky innovations while maintaining rigorous backward compatibility for the broader open-source community.
- Milken Institute1h 8m
The Credit Recovery: Uneven, Unequal, Uncertain?
Mike Divavar, Bill Friend-Carrstairs, Leslie Cowan, Joe Nagar, Jim Zelter
Panelists from Fortress, GoldenTree, Apollo, and Varday outline a K-shaped credit recovery driven by deep dislocations between equity valuations and distressed debt spreads across sectors like aviation, energy, and commercial real estate. These institutional investors are leveraging specialized infrastructure to acquire undervalued assets in emerging markets and structured credit, targeting high returns while navigating central bank dependency and the risks posed by zombie companies. The consensus projects a multi-year reconstruction phase where private credit expansion and complex asset management strategies will capture significant market share as traditional markets transition from liquidity crises to solvency challenges.
- Milken Institute1h 8m
The Impact Revolution: From Sustainable Development Goals to Solutions
Glenn, Sir Ronald Cohen, Eugene Kendall, Bhaskar, Alex Wayne
Facing a $2.5 trillion annual financing gap and a global economic contraction caused by the pandemic, experts at this event proposed leveraging impact-weighted accounting and blended finance to mobilize the estimated $32 trillion in private capital required for the Sustainable Development Goals. Leaders including Sir Ronald Cohen and representatives from the Syngenta Foundation detailed strategies to quantify corporate social and environmental costs through Harvard Business School's Impact Weighted Accounts while scaling smallholder agriculture via the Agripreneur model and digital de-risking tools. The consensus emerged that governments must mandate impact transparency to bridge the financing divide, aligning the "triple helix" of risk, reward, and impact to transform profit and purpose from mutually exclusive goals into a unified growth engine.
- Milken Institute1h 10m
Risks and Rewards: Accelerating Climate Change Solutions
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Gina McCarthy, Nat Simons, John Kasich, Sheldon Whitehouse, Alex Witt
Moderated by Alex Witt, a bipartisan panel including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and former Governor John Kasich identified the $600 billion annual fossil fuel subsidy as the primary barrier to climate action while advocating for carbon pricing and the elimination of such subsidies to force market correction. Despite audience sentiment favoring the private sector, speakers emphasized that systemic government intervention is necessary to address health inequities, counter industry-funded misinformation, and achieve the emission reductions required within the next decade. The discussion concluded by calling for a "World War II-level mobilization" driven by media accountability and public pressure to restore bipartisan cooperation on practical environmental solutions.
- Milken Institute1h 7m
Africa: Economic Recovery and Transformation
Raj Kumar, Aruma Ote, Paula Ngabiri, Vivian Nwaka
Moderated by DevEx President Raj Kumar at the Milken Institute Global Conference, a panel of African leaders and financiers including former World Bank official Arumna Ote and Rwanda's Minister Paula Ngabiri analyzed the continent's post-pandemic economic trajectory. The discussion highlighted Africa's demographic potential and the urgent need to boost intra-continental trade through the AfCFTA while addressing a critical $130 billion annual funding gap exacerbated by investor risk perception and inadequate fiscal stimulus. Panellists proposed a strategic shift toward blended finance, agile regulatory frameworks for sectors like health tech and agribusiness, and data-driven governance to attract private capital and foster inclusive growth for the projected 2.3 billion population.
- Milken Institute12 min
The Future of Market Structure
Kym Arnone, Rick McVey, Annette Nazareth, Aine O'Flynn, Jared Carney, Anya O'Flynn
Moderated by Lightdale CEO Jared Carney, the 2020 Milken Institute Global Conference "Future of Market Structure" panel featured SEC former commissioner Annette Nazareth, BMO Capital Markets' Anya O'Flynn, and Market Access CEO Rick McVeigh to analyze market dynamics during the pandemic. Nazareth highlighted the unexpected robustness of U.S. markets and a surge in retail participation, while McVeigh addressed the paradox of uneven liquidity creation across global fixed income sectors. Together, these leaders evaluated how technology and regulation interacted to maintain investor confidence despite significant economic disruption.