Topic
Financial Infrastructure
The plumbing of economic life: payment networks, clearing systems, and credit architecture.
Episodes
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Who Owns the Payment Rails?
Dr. Sarah Chen — Senior Fellow, Payments Policy Institute
Every digital transaction travels across infrastructure owned by a handful of companies. We trace the history of payment networks, the concentration of power, and what a public alternative might look like.
May 28, 2026 · 58 minListen →
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Your Credit Score: A Short History
Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University
Credit scoring was designed to remove human bias from lending decisions. Instead, it encoded structural inequality into an algorithm.
March 3, 2026 · 61 minListen →
