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2/8/202633 min

In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, our hosts Telis Demos and Miriam Gottfried get into why the market still hasn’t made up its mind on Kevin Warsh’s nomination as the Federal Reserve chair, and why gold and silver trades fell on the news. Then Telis says he’ll be looking at Coinbase and Robinhood’s earnings this week to help make sense of bitcoin's falling value. Our hosts then break down the software selloff that followed Anthropic’s release of new legal tools.

After the break, Miriam is joined by...

Clips

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Are We In An AI Bubble?
Why He Waited On LLMs
Dead End Or Not?
We Bought A Hospital
No Single AI Winner
Ten Million AI Patient Calls
Speaking Out In Polarized Times
Why Enterprise AI Is Slow
Short, Medium, Long: Jobs Outlook
Don’t Lead With Layoffs

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

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  2. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:16

    [upbeat music] Hi, Telis.

  3. Telis Demos· Host0:19

    Hi, Miriam.

  4. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:20

    Good to see you again.

  5. Telis Demos· Host0:21

    Good to see you, too, back here at WSJ's Take on the Week.

  6. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:24

    I know. We had the privilege of spending a good amount of time together this past week at WSJ's inaugural WSJ Invest Live Conference.

  7. Telis Demos· Host0:33

    It was in West Palm Beach. We were hoping for, like, sunny Florida as relief from this snowmaggedon gray of New York.

  8. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:41

    But it was kinda cold.

  9. Telis Demos· Host0:42

    Though I don't... It was like 50s, which I know to Floridians is like- No, it was, like, in the 40s when I lo- landed. Well- It was...

  10. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:47

    That's, like, pretty cold for Florida ...

  11. Telis Demos· Host0:48

    I got off the plane and I felt like, "Oh, it's, like, spring-like around here."

  12. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:51

    [laughs] Anyway, the conversations were very interesting.

  13. Telis Demos· Host0:53

    Yes.

  14. Miriam Gottfried· Host0:53

    So it was all worth it, and you know, we spent a good amount of time inside anyway at the conference. Um, but coming up in a bit, we'll be- get to hear my interview that I did with General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja, all about AI and his investment philosophy around AI. Um- Very relevant to what's going on in software.

  15. Telis Demos· Host1:13

    We'll get to that in a bit.

  16. Miriam Gottfried· Host1:14

    Exactly. But first we wanna talk about, you know, another big topic that came up a lot at the conference, which is our new Federal Reserve chair nominee, Kevin Warsh.

  17. Telis Demos· Host1:24

    So now the debate is, okay, well, well, what's Kevin Warsh gonna do?

  18. Miriam Gottfried· Host1:27

    What does that mean?

  19. Telis Demos· Host1:28

    Right?

  20. Miriam Gottfried· Host1:28

    Yeah.

  21. Telis Demos· Host1:28

    Obviously, Donald Trump really would like rates

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