Whether you love business news or feel like you’re supposed to know it but hate it, Business Pants is business news for humans. Snarky and irreverent, deeply researched and factual, a podcast devoted to market quirks and the humans that make up companies. Investing isn’t a what, it’s a who.
MONDAY KETCHUP: SVB gets bought by a WORSE governed bank, sports bros are sexual harassy, tech bros are symbiotic, and business news hates Israel
FRIDAY WRAP: the IPCC's woke climate change report, the FTC's cancels your gym membership, Howard Schultz's sunset letter, buy-now-afford-never
THE GOOD GAME: Oil company homicide charges, Zuckerberg and sex trafficking, Biden's ESG veto, and 5,000 miles of sulfur seaweed heading to Florida
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Howard Schultz's Starbucks letter, proxy roundup, and Credit Suisse's frat boy influence party, plus a word from ESGauge
CORPORATE THEATER: Bank Failures & Bing's AI Chatbot
BANK BAILOUT-PALOOZA: UBS munches on Credit Suisse, NY Community Bank eats Signature Bank, and SVB Crumbs
FRIDAY WRAP: The founder fetish tech bro bank collapses, fear-of-pricing-out insulin price drops, Barney Frank did it for the money, and pay gaps in college sports. Plus winners and predictions.
THURSDAY QUIZ: Larry Fink New Letter Edition! How boring can one letter be? A lot boring.
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Anti-woke responses to SVB (THE DEI DID IT!), plus post-modern governance, G-washing, and who's the next bank at risk feature Doug Chia of Soundboard Governance
CORPORATE THEATER: McDonald’s & Cardi B, The Boring Company, and Heinz’s Celebrity Endorser
SVB ROUNDUP: How they failed isn't who failed - a case study in the broconomy and a 1%er bank run
FRIDAY WRAP: We want more female executives and fewer Italian men dominating Walgreens!
THURSDAY QUIZ: Whirlpool proxy quiz, Cucker Tarlson isn't even satire anymore, and Who the Eff is That??
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Internationally depressing women's day stats, Florida's fight for freedom through banning everything, and a word from ESGauge
CORPORATE THEATER: Disney’s Jiminy Hates DeSantis, Target Gift Card Scams, and CEO Voice Memos
MONDAY KETCHUP: ESG Headlines and a Deep Dive on Anti-Women Walgreens
FRIDAY WRAP: Fox News and Murdoch's costly fibbing, Dilbert, Musk's Neuralink's wandering chips, Texas GOP goes full communist, shopping kills whales
BIZ NUGGETS: Irish bananas, Strive hates Singapore now, legionella spas, Zuck's bear trap, war on conservatives, Texas does China, Musk's Optimus robots, and VW is terrible
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Alternative democracies at Calavo and Lennar prove you need to think of boards with, like, data, plus a word from ESGauge and Paul Hodgson
CORPORATE THEATER: Monty Python Musk, Phantom of the Office, and CEO Confessionals
MONDAY KETCHUP: Dilbert vs. POC, Elon vs. people picking on Dilbert, CEOs weigh in on ChatGPT, and Warren Buffett's American Tailwind letter
FRIDAY WRAP: Clorox CEO's diversity call-out, no more severance silence, Tennessee bans drag as distraction politics, Vivek's presidential bid, solar misinformation, and avian flu
THE GOOD GAME: Tesla's ever-recording eye? Twitter's terrorist problem? Four-day work week? Plus, a Who The Eff Is That Speedround!
WOKE WEDNESDAY: CEO Pay Ratio roundup, and why your pay chairs are bound to suck at their jobs
CORPORATE THEATER: CEO Tests ChatGPT Clone & Corporate Movie Reviews
FRIDAY WRAP: Norfolk Southern's train, board, and investor fail, Eli Lilly recruits black patients, and oil giant carbon whiplash
WHO THE EFF IS THAT? The world's first Board of Directors game show, with the directors you SHOULD know responsible for the scandals you DO know
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Alternative democracy update, Cucker Tarlson talks M&M, and an anti-woke update quiz!
