What Happens Next in 6 Minutes

The Opioid Crisis

Gerald Posner wrote the book Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America. Gerald will speak about the conflict that pharmaceutical firms face with their desire for advancing public health and their profit motive. We will also discuss the advancement of pain management care, fears of addiction, and the success and failures of OxyContin.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

How Should I Invest My Money? (Classic)

Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing.Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers colleague of mine and one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management. A decade ago Victor founded a wealth advisor, Elm Wealth, as an extension of managing his family office. I endorse Victor’s wealth management strategy that dynamically manages portfolios of low cost ETFs focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted, after-tax returns for clients. You will hear directly from Vic about these ideas and you can learn more from his website elmwealth.com.Myron Scholes won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to options theory. This is just a tiny fraction of his many contributions to finance. Myron will speak today about the importance of diversification both across assets and time. Myron was an early advocate of low cost index funds and believes that you need to dynamically change your investment portfolio when market risk conditions change. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureaucracy Under Attack

The first speaker will be Jay Greene from the Heritage Foundation who will discuss Florida Governor’s challenge to the DEI bureaucracy in Florida’s public universities. Jay and I were high school debate partners at New Trier in Winnetka, Illinois and are still very close friends.Our second speaker will be Dr. Stanley Goldfarb who runs a not for profit called Do No Harm.  Stanley is the former Associate Dean at the UPenn Medical School and the author of Take 2 Aspirin and Call me by my Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine.  Stanley will discuss how DEI is harming medical schools’ curriculum and medical care. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Juries: Opportunity or Peril

Our first guest will be Sonali Chakravarti who is a Professor of Political Theory at Wesleyan University who focuses on the importance of juries to democracy.  She is the author of the book Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life and Sonali will discuss how to expand jury nullification.Our second guest will be Retired Federal District Court Judge Gary Feinerman who left the bench two months ago to be a litigation partner at Latham and Watkins.  Gary presided over 48 jury trials, and I want to learn from Gary about what he learned watching juries from his vantage point as a judge.Our third guest is David Stellings a law partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.  David is one of the top class action lawyers in the country and represented the class in the famous VW Diesel Case, David will discuss the challenges working with a jury in complex civil litigation.Our final speaker will be the What Happens Next film critic Darren Schwartz who will review the classic 1957 film 12 Angry Men and its continuing relevance to understanding the innerworkings of jury deliberation.There is much to cover so buckle up. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Prince Harry - The Spare

Tina Brown will discuss her new book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil. Tina is the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Tina has written several other books including the Diana Chronicles as well as The Vanity Fair Diaries. Tina will explain why the public is so fascinated with the Royal Family, the continuing deterioration of Prince Harry’s relationship with his brother William, the next in line to be king.  Why Harry decided to give up his royal responsibilities.  And Tina will explain why she believes that the monarchy will survive and prosper. There is much to cover so buckle up. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

The Speaker Saga

Gisela Sin is a Political Science Professor at the University of Illinois and the author of the book entitled Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. Gisela will explain what rule changes that McCarthy had to agree to get the necessary votes, and we will find out what the implications are for the legislative agenda and the House’s power in negotiating with the President.We will also hear from Tennessee Republican Congressman Mark Green who will describe the internal squabbles that he witnessed during this historic 4-day saga on the House floor to pick the Speaker, and I plan to ask Mark about what this means for the Republicans going forward during this term.There is much to cover so buckle up. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Supreme Court Docket & Judicial Backlash to Netanyahu

We are going to hear from Ilya about what happened last term besides Dobbs and what to expect from the Supreme Court.  This year’s big cases will be on affirmative action, limiting state courts influence in elections, and interstate commerce.  Ilya spoke on this podcast previously about free speech. Our second speaker is Eugene Kontorovich who is a Professor of International Law at George Mason’s Law School and works with the Kohelet Policy Forum on legal reforms related to Israel’s Supreme Court. Israel’s Supreme Court has been flexing its muscle lately and has rejected the Knesset’s laws that it feels are unreasonable including political compromises on the military draft as well as firing a cabinet minister that it viewed as unqualified because of previous legal troubles. We will hear from Eugene about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms and the hysteria it has triggered in Israel’s legal community. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

How Should I Invest My Money?

Nobel Prize winner Myron Scholes and Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani discuss the Golden Rules of Investing.Victor Haghani is a former Salomon Brothers colleague of mine and one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management. A decade ago Victor founded a wealth advisor, Elm Wealth, as an extension of managing his family office. I endorse Victor’s wealth management strategy that dynamically manages portfolios of low cost ETFs focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted, after-tax returns for clients. You will hear directly from Vic about these ideas and you can learn more from his website elmwealth.com.Myron Scholes won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to options theory. This is just a tiny fraction of his many contributions to finance. Myron will speak today about the importance of diversification both across assets and time. Myron was an early advocate of low cost index funds and believes that you need to dynamically change your investment portfolio when market risk conditions change. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Who Should We Let Into the US?

Our speakers will be economists Ran Abramitzky from Stanford and Garett Jones from George Mason. Ran is the author of Streets of Gold: American’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success and Garett wrote the book The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left. Both speakers are pro-immigration, but Garett wants us to focus our efforts on recruiting immigrants with skills. Garett believes that the success of immigrants’ descendants is a function of the culture imbued from the old country. In addition, the immigrants social and cultural mores will affect America’s social mores as well, so be very careful who you let in. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com

Major League Pickleball

Pickleball is the hottest sport in America. Player enthusiasm is off the charts. In my neighborhood in Miami Beach and my mothers in Sarasota, pickleball is the rage. This is becoming the norm. The game is fun to play and is open to all ages and skill level. And the people love it. Today’s guest is my close friend Steve Kuhn who founded Major League Pickleball, you know the one where Tom Brady and LeBron are team owners. Steve is incredibly creative and highly excitable. You are going to love Steve.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com