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Lessons from Dana Mattioli

Dana Mattioli investigates corporate mergers and technology monopolies for The Wall Street Journal, exposing how Amazon’s use of platform data and market power can stifle competition and clarifying the mechanics that drive modern corporate consolidation.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Ben Inker

Ben Inker is GMO’s Co-Head of Asset Allocation, known for valuation-based investing, diagnosing bubbles, and championing deep value; his work asks how investors can navigate expensive markets, technological shifts, and the structural weaknesses of traditional 60/40 portfolios.
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Lessons from Alan Krueger

Alan Krueger was an empirical labor economist who tested public policy against observable facts, using evidence from fast-food wages to opioid prescriptions to reconsider the minimum wage, missing workers, economic inequality, and how the economy functions for everyday people.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Neil Dutta

Neil Dutta heads economic research at Renaissance Macro Research, linking macroeconomic data to markets through calls that challenged recession consensus and identified early weakness in labor and housing, alongside analysis of consumer spending and monetary policy.
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Lessons from Ed Yardeni

Ed Yardeni is an economist and investment strategist who coined “bond vigilantes” and uses macroeconomic data to forecast markets, connecting productivity and AI to his “Roaring 2020s” thesis while studying earnings, demographics, capital markets, and investor psychology.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer who coined “enshittification” to describe online platforms’ decay, arguing for interoperability as a counterweight to digital monopolies, copyright overreach, technological centralization, and concentrated corporate power.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Colin Camerer

Colin Camerer is an economist who helped establish behavioral game theory and neuroeconomics, using fMRI and behavioral experiments to reveal the cognitive limits, social preferences, and biological mechanisms that standard models miss when people navigate strategy, risk, and markets.
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Lessons from Campbell Harvey

Campbell Harvey is a Duke finance professor known for establishing the inverted yield curve as a reliable recession indicator and for challenging flawed statistics in quantitative investing, while examining inflation hedges, false discoveries in asset pricing, and decentralized finance.

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