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SpaceX IPO, The Erdős Problem, Spotify CEO Joins | Alex Tabarrok, Bill Clerico, Alex Norström, Jordan Schneider, Christina Lee Storm, Erik Bernhardsson

May 21, 2026 · 2h 30m

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(01:25) - SpaceX IPO (12:37) - Anthropic Revenue Surges (17:31) - OpenAI Solves the Erdős Problem (27:53) - Alex Tabarrok, a Canadian-American economist and professor at George Mason University, co-authors the Marginal Revolution blog and co-founded Marginal Revolution University. He discusses the Baumol effect, explaining how sectors with stagnant productivity, like education and healthcare, experience rising costs due to increasing wages in more productive industries. Tabarrok also explores the potential of AI to mitigate this effect by enhancing productivity in traditionally labor-intensive sectors. (01:02:22) - Bill Clerico, founder and managing partner of Convective Capital, discusses…