Smart vs. Stupid Risk Taking — with Nate Silv...

Scott Galloway explains why a national sales tax sounds fair but always hits the wrong people, makes the case for saying less and listening more as a manager, and advises a 25-year-old in London on whether to cut his contract short for love. Want to be featured in a future episod ...  Show more

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Every career involves choices; every choice involves risk. But being able to size up those risks, and think coolly about which are worth taking, can make the process of choosing between options much easier. The problem? Most of us aren’t actually very good at evaluating risk. In ...  Show more

Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk. In his new book, On The Edge, he makes the case that people willing to take massive calculated risks are winning in the modern economy. Tim Harford talks to Nate about the mindset that’ ...  Show more

Nate Silver (On the Edge, The Signal and the Noise, Baseball Between the Numbers) is a statistician, author, and founder of FiveThirtyEight. Nate joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his youthful aspirations for a starter job as US president with a promotion to baseball commis ...

Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss who the winner was of the Trump Harris debate, Taylor Swift's Kamala endorsement failure, Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's political future, and Shannon Sharpe accidentally live streaming a romantic encounter on ...