Global Business / Economy
Is the Decline of Cash Leaving an Entire Generation Without a Backup Plan When the Digital Infrastructure Fails?As cash transactions keep dropping, what happens to an entire generation if the digital payment infrastructure ever fails? Kathy R. Smith, Michael J. Johnson, and Alicia R. Thompson debate whether the shift to cashless is inevitable progress or a risk nobody's adequately preparing for.
Financial Technology (FinTech)
Is Buy-Side AI the Tool That Finally Levels the Playing Field Between Retail and Institutional Investors — or One That Widens It in Ways Nobody Is Measuring?Is AI finally giving everyday investors the same edge institutions have long enjoyed — or just letting the big players move faster while retail catches up? Aswath Damodaran, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Anja K. Klemens debate whether buy-side AI closes the gap between retail and institutional investors or quietly widens it.
Bitcoin / Crypto
Is Bitcoin's Fixed Supply Its Greatest Feature — or the Design Choice That Will Eventually Make It Too Deflationary to Function as a Currency?Is Bitcoin's 21 million coin cap the ultimate hedge against inflation — or a rigid design flaw that could choke it as a usable currency? Raoul Pal, Nouriel Roubini, and Cathy Wood debate whether scarcity is Bitcoin's greatest strength or its deepest structural weakness.
Global Business / Economy
Is the Concept of a 'Fair Price' Disappearing in an Era of Personalized Dynamic Pricing — and Should That Alarm You?Is the very idea of a "fair price" becoming obsolete as algorithms tailor what you pay to who you are? Rita McGrath, Michael Schrage, and Amy Scott debate whether personalized dynamic pricing is a natural market evolution or a quiet erosion of consumer trust.
Financial Technology (FinTech)
Is the Tokenization of Money Market Funds the Quiet Revolution That Makes Everything Else in Crypto Irrelevant?Could tokenized money market funds make other crypto innovations look obsolete — or is that promise getting ahead of the regulatory reality? Caitlin Long, Larry Altman, and Bill Barhydt debate whether tokenization genuinely disrupts traditional finance or just adds a new layer of complexity to it.
Bitcoin / Crypto
Is Solana the Ethereum Killer It Was Promised to Be — or a High-Performance Chain That's Still One Outage Away From Losing the Narrative?Is Solana's blazing speed enough to dethrone Ethereum, or is its track record of outages a warning sign investors shouldn't ignore? Vitalik Buterin, Anatoly Yakovenko, and Laura Shin debate whether Solana has earned the "Ethereum killer" label or still needs to prove it can be trusted at scale.
