The Julia La Roche Show

Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. He is the author of the best-seller L ayered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies . He currently writes The Bitcoin Layer , a research pu...

Ben Hunt , the author of Epsilon Theory and co-founder of Second Foundation Partners, joins Julia La Roche to discuss narratives and how they shape everything from financial markets to politics.  Ben’s Epsilon Theory is a newsletter read by over 100,000 investors and allocators that examines markets through the lenses of game theory and history and provides novel insights into market dynamics...

Macro researcher Jim Bianco, the president of Bianco Research, joins Julia La Roche for a wide-ranging conversation on the macroeconomic environment. Bianco’s research style is macro with a bent toward fixed income and dabbles in the traditional macro to highlight things that people are not focused on or emphasizing enough. In the conversation, Bianco highlights three bubbles that existed pre-2020...

Anthony Scaramucci, founder/managing partner of fund-of-funds SkyBridge Capital and affectionately known as "The Mooch," joins Julia La Roche for a wide-ranging conversation on life, business, investing, and politics.  Scaramucci details some of his biggest career failures — including being fired by Goldman Sachs, failing the New York State bar exam, and getting fired from the White House — a...

Texas-based hedge fund manager J. Kyle Bass, the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management and founder of private equity firm Conservation Equity Management, joins Julia La Roche for a wide-ranging discussion on macroeconomics, geopolitics, and investment opportunities.   Regarding macroeconomics, Europe is facing one of the worst winters of high power prices ever due...

In this episode, Julia is joined by cybersecurity expert Adam Meyers, the senior vice president of intelligence for CrowdStrike.  Meyers looks after CrowdStrike’s intelligence gathering and cyber-adversarial monitoring activities, which include around 185 adversaries.  With more than twenty years of experience in cybersecurity, Meyers has a talent for breaking down incredibly complex and...

Alan Patricof ( @alanjpatricof ) is a venture capital pioneer with a career spanning more than 50 years and showing no signs of slowing down. The 87-year-old started his third venture capital business nearly two years ago called Primetime Partners , wrote his first book published this year, and this week he'll be attending Burning Man, and in the fall, he'll run the New York City Marathon for the...

Today's guest is Ryan Williams, Cadre 's founder and executive chairman. Cadre is a tech-enabled commercial real estate investing platform backed by Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Ford Foundation, Harvard Management Company, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, and others. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, entrepreneurship runs deep in Ryan's veins. In this episode, Ryan and J...

Prominent First Amendment attorney Greg Lukianoff, a  New York Times best-selling author and the President and CEO of The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (previously called the  Foundation for Individual Rights in Education  (FIRE), joins Julia on this episode for a wide-ranging discussion on free speech. In this discussion, Lukianoff explains what free speech is, so...

Contrarian macro investor and thinker Hugh Hendry ( @Hendry_Hugh ) joins Julia La Roche for a two-hour, unfiltered conversation that covers everything, from his early years in the hedge fund world to why he’s currently fearful of the economy. In this episode, Hugh discusses his time “healing” from the hedge fund world while living on St. Barts for the past five years. He revisits his earliest year...

In this episode, Julia is joined by Gerry Parsky, founder and chairman of private equity firm Aurora Capital Partners and partner of Endurance Partners.  When Parsky was 31, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, a position he held from 1974 until 1977. In that role, Parsky was responsible for capital markets policy. He also was responsible for all of the Treasury Departme...

David Cote, executive chairman of Vertiv Holdings and former CEO of Honeywell, joined Julia La Roche for a wide-ranging discussion of his best-selling book “Winning Now, Winning Later.” Cote knows a thing or two about turning things around. He describes his early years as a “tumultuous beginning.” The first in his family to graduate high school, Cote had a 1.8 GPA in college before he stopped atte...

Bill Browder is one of the most influential human rights activists in the world today, working to hold human rights abusers to account. Browder architected and spearheaded the campaign to pass The Magnitsky Act, a federal law that allows for sanctions, freezing assets, and visa bans on foreign nationals who’ve committed human rights abuses. Browder, the founder of hedge fund firm Hermitage Capital...

In this episode, Julia La Roche ( @julialaroche ) is joined by Morgan Housel ( @morganhousel ), the best-selling author of “The Psychology of Money ,” with over 2 million copies sold worldwide. Even Morgan was surprised by the book’s viral success after being turned down by every major New York publisher before being picked up by London-based Harriman House. “The Psychology of Money” surfaces time...

The Julia La Roche Show brings you in-depth conversations with top CEOs, investors, founders, academics, and the emerging names she finds fascinating. Julia ( @JuliaLaRoche ), a veteran financial correspondent, dives deep into the lives and minds of her guests, uncovering their stories, experiences, and insights. Whether you’re interested in finance, technology, entrepreneurship, or want to hear c...