Power and Consequences

About Power and Consequences

Every day seems to bring unprecedented news in the political sphere. But what exactly is happening, what is most important, and what is likely to stick around or provoke backslash? Professors Gary Gensler (former SEC chair) and Simon Johnson (Nobel Prize-winning economist) tackle a single policy topic each week, explaining how the events of today will affect you tomorrow.

Publisher

Third Clumber Productions

Category

education · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Feb 2026

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 33 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 32: How Much Trouble is Europe In?

   Gary Gensler and Nobel laureate Simon Johnson explore Europe's economic and political challenges, discussing the Euro's impact, immigration, energy, and AI's future role in this interview.

2. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 31: Should We Slow AI Development? Can We?

   Gary Gensler and Nobel laureate Simon Johnson interview each other about slowing AI development and its real-world risks, offering insights into global policy challenges.

3. 

   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 30: What Are We Getting With All These Data Centers?

   MIT Sloan Professors Gary Gensler and Nobel laureate Simon Johnson explore the economic and environmental consequences of the AI data center boom and its potential slowdown.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 32: How Much Trouble is Europe In?

Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And there's a lot of backward and forward linkages, people who are supplying stuff to you, people buying stuff from you. And a great deal of this activity has become concentrated in the United States and in some particular parts of the United States, including on the West Coast. So the Europeans sort of missed that first move into the Internet. By the way, they were very early on some pre-Internet technologies. I remember seeing some of those in France, for example. But they didn't ride the big internet wave. They didn't transform their use of information technology in their companies. And this is something that's also not changed over the past 20 years, which is really quite dramatic. […]

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