Today’s conversation is with Arpit Gupta, an Associate Professor of Finance at NYU Stern.
Arpit runs a newsletter called Arpitrage (clever!) in which he researches fascinating ideas that almost nobody is paying attention to.
In this episode, we explore two topics in detail:
Expect to learn why wealth inequality has increased (20:34), how to protect yourself from inflation (38:53), how a judge’s strictness can impact students’ test scores (41:31), why we might be completely wrong about how to reduce crime (51:24), and much more.
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
(0:42): Arpit’s research style.
(6:13): How Finance Killed Democracy.
(40:13): Incarceration’s Social Spillovers.
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