Oct 29, 202652 min
The Trump administration is pursuing a transactional style of U.S. foreign policy, leaving friends and adversaries uncertain about what Washington wants. This week on The Spillover, host Rebecca Patterson and Jim...
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The Spillover
Hosted by Council on Foreign Relations · news · EN
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How do critical international developments shape economic and financial markets worldwide? Each week, The Spillover traces the ripple effects of global events, exploring the intersection of policy, geopolitics, economics, technology, and finance. This podcast helps you better understand what’s happening, and why it matters to businesses, the markets, and the world.
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What is The Spillover about?
How do critical international developments shape economic and financial markets worldwide? Each week, The Spillover traces the ripple effects of global events, exploring the intersection of policy, geopolitics, economics, technology, and finance. This podcast helps you better understand what’s happening, and why it matters to businesses, the markets, and the world.
What has The Spillover covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Transactional U.S. Foreign Policy + Who Are America’s Friends Now?" (29 October 2026, 52 minutes), "Brazil’s Runoff Election Is a Close Race Between Lula and Bolsonaro" (22 October 2026, 42 minutes), and "Lame Ducks, Black Swans, and the 2026 Midterm Elections" (15 October 2026, 35 minutes).
How often does The Spillover publish?
The Spillover publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 40 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Spillover?
Booking probability for The Spillover is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Spillover requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Spillover's contact route on record: public web form.
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The strongest fits for The Spillover are Investing & Wealth Management. The Spillover has a news audience.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 22, 202642 min
Brazil’s runoff is a dead heat, but markets are betting that Flávio Bolsonaro, son of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, will win and finally rein in the country’s debt. This week on The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and CFR...
- Oct 15, 202635 min
With the 2026 U.S. midterm elections just weeks away, Rebecca Patterson and Veda Partners Cofounder Henrietta Treyz discuss an impending confrontation over the debt ceiling in the lame-duck session. They warn that a...
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Central Banks in a Bind + Could AI Replace the FOMC?
Oct 1, 202647 minThis week on The Spillover, hosts Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby are joined by Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, to discuss how the Federal Reserve has fallen behind...
- Sep 25, 202650 min
This week on The Spillover, hosts Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson sit down with author and historian Anne Applebaum to discuss Europe, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the escalating geopolitical headwinds the...
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- Sep 14, 202647 min
This week, hosts Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson unpack Nvidia’s deal to purchase Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-weight AI models. The acquisition, they argue, highlights a battle between two...
- Sep 10, 202653 min
This week, host Rebecca Patterson speaks with Natasha Sarin, law professor and cofounder of the Yale Budget Lab, to unpack Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s claim that the United States can grow its way out of record...
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The U.S. Buys Stake in a Venezuelan Oil Company + Why Efficiency Is the Real Path to Energy Security
Sep 1, 202649 minThis week, host Rebecca Patterson sits down with energy and climate expert Vijay Vaitheeswaran to discuss the U.S. government's acquisition of 35 percent equity stake in a Venezuelan oil company and how managing demand...
- Aug 26, 20261h 5m
The financing behind the AI boom has grown so large that treasury bond yields are approaching levels not seen since the leadup to the 2008 financial crisis. But is the risk to the financial market overblown? This week...
- Aug 18, 202645 min
Artificial intelligence has become the biggest variable in the U.S. economy, but is the country really positioned to win the global race for economic dominance in AI? This week, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby...
- Aug 12, 202648 min
Five months of war in Iran have completely reshaped energy markets. This week, the Baker Institute’s Kristian Coates Ulrichsen joins Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby to examine how conflict in the Strait of...
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Spillover Summer Reading: The Best Books on Forecasting, Silicon Valley, and the Future
Aug 5, 20261h 7mIn this episode of The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby swap summer reading recommendations, including fiction and nonfiction picks covering American thinkers’ predictions for the twentieth century, an...
- Jul 28, 20261h 2m
In this episode of The Spillover, host Sebastian Mallaby sits down with Jordan Schneider, founder and editor-in-chief of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter, to discuss AI progress and security, as well as the...
Jul 21, 202655 minIn this episode, The Spillover’s Sebastian Mallaby is hosted by Dan Kurtz-Phelan, editor of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the “AI trilemma”—the challenge U.S. policymakers face in encouraging enough innovation to stay...
- Jul 15, 20261h 5m
Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby are joined by Rahm Emanuel, who served as President Bill Clinton’s political strategist, President Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff, and President Joe Biden’s U.S...
- Jul 13, 202652 min
On this episode of The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby, joined by CFR expert Jonathan Hillman, examine the U.S. government's rapidly growing portfolio of equity stakes in private companies, including...
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Gold vs. Bitcoin Showdown
Jul 9, 202644 minCohosts Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby stage a friendly debate over two so-called dollar alternatives—gold and bitcoin—weighing whether either has truly earned its reputation as a store of value. Patterson...
- Jul 1, 202648 min
America’s 250th birthday is the talk of the nation. But the more important story might be what the milestone reveals about the fragile bargain between democracy and markets, and whether the republic can survive its own...
- Jun 23, 202642 min
In this episode of The Spillover, host Rebecca Patterson and former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Roger W. Ferguson Jr. reflect on the legacy of recently deceased former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, and examine what may lie...
- Jun 19, 202642 min
In this episode of The Spillover, host Sebastian Mallaby and CFR President Michael Froman speak with former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and World Bank President Ajay Banga about the global jobs challenge...
Recent guests
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Natasha Sarin
professor of law and finance at Yale University, Lloyds Banking Group
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Torsten Slok
Chief Economist, Apollo Global Management, Apollo Global Asset Management
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Rebecca Patterson
Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations
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Sebastian Mallaby
author, journalist, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations
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