
SmarterMarkets™
SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.
Latest episodes

Jan 28, 2023 • 43min
A Smarter Way Episode 3 | Liz Hoffman, Business & Finance Editor, Semafor
We’re joined this week by Liz Hoffman, Business & Finance Editor at Semafor and the author of the forthcoming book Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Liz to discuss how to provide trustworthy financial news to an interconnected world with increasingly divergent and competing viewpoints.

Jan 21, 2023 • 37min
A Smarter Way Episode 2 | Keith McCullough, Founder & CEO, Hedgeye
We continue our series A Smarter Way with Keith McCullough, the Founder & CEO of Hedgeye. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Keith to discuss the lessons of FTX and the state of financial advice on traditional and social media.

Jan 14, 2023 • 26min
A Smarter Way Episode 1 | Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance, University of Houston
This week, we kick off our new series, A Smarter Way, exploring better paths forward to solve our concurrent crises of commodities and climate.
Our first guest in the series is Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Craig to examine both the implications of and alternatives to Europe's recent decision to move forward with energy price caps.

Jan 7, 2023 • 40min
Energy Investing in 2023 | Arjun Murti, Former Head of Energy Equity Research at Goldman Sachs and Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack
We kick off the new year with Arjun Murti, the Former Head of Energy Equity Research at Goldman Sachs and the Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss some of the big issues facing energy investors in 2023.

Dec 31, 2022 • 57min
Holiday Special Part 2 | Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies
We close out the year with Part 2 of our Holiday Special with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert and Josh to continue looking back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the past two years and discuss where it’s going next.

Dec 24, 2022 • 58min
Holiday Special Part 1 | Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies
This week, we present Part 1 of our end-of-year Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, to look back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the last two years and discuss where it’s going next.

Dec 17, 2022 • 34min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 7 | Mark Frayman, Managing Partner, Orion Industrial Ventures
We close out our Financing the Energy Transition series this week with Mark Frayman, Managing Partner at Orion Industrial Ventures. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the role of venture capital in decarbonizing mining and heavy industry.

Dec 10, 2022 • 26min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 6 | Leah Wieczorek, Vice President, Global Carbon, Macquarie Group
We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series this week by welcoming Leah Wieczorek into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Leah is Vice President of Global Carbon at the Macquarie Group. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leah to discuss the role that banks like Macquarie play in scaling the carbon markets and in financing the energy transition.

Dec 3, 2022 • 46min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 5 | Adam Bornstein, Lead, Innovative Finance & System Change, Danish Red Cross
This week, we welcome Adam Bornstein into the SmarterMarkets™ studio as we continue our Financing the Energy Transition series. Adam is the Lead of Innovative Finance & System Change at the Danish Red Cross. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Adam to discuss how ESG, impact investing, and carbon finance can be put to work to fund humanitarian relief and resilience to a changing climate.

Nov 26, 2022 • 47min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 4 | John Goldstein, Head of the Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs
We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series by welcoming John Goldstein back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. John is Head of the Sustainable Finance Group at Goldman Sachs. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with John to discuss how ESG and impact investing has evolved over the past two years and where we need to be doing the hard work right now to finance the energy transition.