Podcast appearances and mentions of nicholas barrett

Join Heneka Watkis-Porter, the #JamaicanPodcastQueen, for another insightful episode of The Entrepreneurial You, as she engages with Nicholas Barrett, founder of CordBrick—an innovative solution designed for today's tech-savvy world. Nicholas, who has experienced the challenges of launching a business in a competitive space, shares his journey of turning a simple idea into a scalable, thriving brand. From overcoming initial manufacturing setbacks to creating a product that now stands out in a niche market, Nicholas details his real-world entrepreneurial journey, highlighting the importance of innovation, resilience, and persistence. Heneka and Nicholas discuss what it truly takes to scale a business for long-term success including how to start lean, learn fast, and build systems that support sustainable growth. Solving Real Problems Through Smart Design Nicholas introduces CordBrick, a silicone-based, weighted cord holder that also functions as a phone support and cord wrapper. Inspired by his frustration with tangled cords in bed, Nicholas walks us through the product development journey—from failed prototypes to connecting with cost-effective manufacturers overseas. His story is a masterclass in transforming a simple idea into a fully functional, market-ready solution. Building a Scalable Business, One Step at a Time Nicholas emphasizes the importance of scaling the right way—not just growing, but building systems, refining the product based on customer feedback, and understanding your market deeply. He explains how focusing on one sales channel at the beginning helped CordBrick gain traction before branching out into others. The Power of Persistence and Feedback The road from concept to product was far from easy. Nicholas openly shares how a $10,000 investment in an early prototype that didn't work out taught him valuable lessons about intentional design and manufacturing. He highlights how customer feedback has played a critical role in shaping the final product and driving future improvements. CONTACT NICHOLAS BARRETT: Website: https://cordbrick.com/ TRENDING NOW: Research shows that 62% of consumers prefer brands that offer innovative solutions to everyday problems—and startups that focus on niche markets grow 30% faster than those targeting general audiences. As e-commerce continues its explosive growth (projected at $7 trillion by 2025), There's never been a better time for entrepreneurs to focus on creating unique products that solve real problems. If you enjoyed this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, leave a rating, and share it with your friends. Visit henekawatkisporter.com to download a free eBook on how to conduct podcast interviews like a pro! AFFIRM WITH ME: I am building a scalable business that thrives in any market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you so much for listening to the Bob Harden Show. On Friday's show, we visit with William Yeatman, Research Fellow with the Cato Institute, about Biden's climate “emergency” and the proposed legislation for a massive semiconductor subsidy. We visit with entrepreneur Nicholas Barrett about his invention, the “Cordbrick.” President of American Commitment Phil Kerpen explains the Democrat plan to raid Medicare to pay for Obamacare – again! We also visit with Larry Bell, Endowed Professor at the University of Houston, and author of his latest book, “Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life by Design” about the media turning a blind eye to Biden's “soft on China” policy. Please join us for Monday's show. We have terrific guests including the Founder and Publisher of HistoryCentral.com, Marc Schulman, the President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education Larry Reed, and author Jim McTague. Please access this or past shows at your convenience on my web site, social media platforms or podcast platforms.

Thank you so much for listening to the Bob Harden Show. On Thursday's show, we discuss the strategy for hiring a School Superintendent in Collier County with co-founder of the Florida Citizens Alliance, Keith Flaugh. We visit the Director of Health Policy Studies Michael Cannon about the troubling consequences of consolidation in healthcare. The Founder and President of Less Government, Seton Motley, and I discuss the problems of censorship by “big tech.” We also discuss voting by mail, Biden's visit to Massachusetts, and Tucker Carlson's speech in Iowa with Linda Harden. We have terrific guests scheduled for Friday's show including Research Fellow at the Cato Institute William Yeatman, inventor and entrepreneur Nicholas Barrett, President of American Commitment Phil Kerpen, and Endowed Professor at the University of Houston and author Larry Bell. Please access this or past shows at your convenience on my web site, social media platforms or podcast platforms.

Hello friends! Its been a while. Sorry about that. Its been a busy semester, teaching an overload class, and wrapping up some publishing projects (here and here). But we are back, and we have a ton of new shows coming your way this summer! Coming up in the next weeks, we have another episode with our Columbus OH friends, “Chairman Moe's Magic Contradiction” on Adam Curtis's new documentary, ”Can't Get You Out of My Head.” We also have panels coming up, on Clyde Barrow's new book on the Lumpenproletariat, Phil Cunliffe's The New Twenty Years' Crisis, and an interview with Christine Louis-Dit-Sully.  For this 31st episode of Fully Automated, and to help us break the dry spell, our guest is none other than legendary podcast figure “KMO”! KMO is the host and producer of the C-Realm Podcast, a cartoonist and author of the book ‘Conversations on Collapse.' On KMO's bio, there's a great quote from Doug Lain, creator of the Diet Soap podcast and now the Zero Books podcast (and previous guest of this show!): KMO was once a winner in the capitalist game. He had high tech dreams and plenty of ambition, but somewhere along the line KMO dropped out, spent what he had, and started over in a simpler way. No longer rich and no longer so enamored with the technocratic fantasies of the prevailing order, he squeaks by in this world while seeking another. More than anything KMO is a broadcaster and interviewer who has a gentle and amiable way of challenging and inspiring interesting conversations with authors, artists, psychedelic gurus, sociologists, NASA scientists, economists, and more on his weekly podcast called the C-Realm. Now, to be sure, KMO is not exactly what you might call a ‘typical guest' for this podcast. Yet, as you'll hear, he is a widely read reader on all things to do with the politics of technology, and science fiction. I first met KMO a few weeks ago, in the Politics and Science Fiction room, on Clubhouse that I started earlier this year, with Giuseppe Porcaro, Jamie Chipperfield, Sarah Shoker, and Nicholas Barrett. It became clear we had some overlapping interests on the topics under discussion, so we stayed in touch and found out that we have a lot of mutual friends in the leftwing podcast universe. KMO recently invited me on his show, the C-Realm, for a discussion of science fiction and the politics of technological change. And this episode of Fully Automated is kind of a Part 2 of that show, where KMO responds to my arguments. In this episode, you'll hear us discuss a wide range of topics: Clubhouse as a phenomena; recent remarks by the pop star Grimes on whether communists should be interested in Fully Automated Communism; the rise of PMC ideology, and why its so hard to discuss the topic of class on the left anymore; Thomas Frank's recent claims about Wuhan lab leak theory, and its significance for the already tarnished reputation of mainstream media; and, finally, we chat about politics and science fiction — you'll hear KMO talk about why and how science fiction is (and isn't!) for him political! For those interested, here are the links to the couple of items KMO mentioned in the show: His written response to my views on FALC, as I expressed them during my appearance on C-Realm (see my brief rejoinder below). The book he mentions is Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change, by David Holmgren (2009-04-14). Rejoinder: Reading KMO's published remarks on Patreon, he offers what I find to be a rather wild and somewhat bad faith interpretation of my views on Walmart and FALC: "You invoked WalMart as an example of a very complicated system of production and supply chain management and then suggested that it needn't be labor-intensive. You could just set it up and let it run for long periods and just check in on it from time to time. That's not how WalMart works.

Nicholas Barrett v. Andrew Saul

Economics seems to be full of myths that are hard to debunk. Will robots take our jobs? Are trade deficits bad? Is China such a big economy simply because of the size of its population? This week, Nicholas Barrett, Maria Demertzis, Marta Domínguez-Jímenez and Niclas Poitiers put on the detective cap and become Bruegel's own economic mythbusters.Disclaimer: this podcast was recorded on the 3rd of March 2020, before the COVID-19 lockdown was put in place in Europe and the US. Hence, some parts of it are no longer applicable. This podcast is a member of the Europod network.

The field of economics, like many others, seems to be biased towards men. How are women disadvantaged? Makfire Alija and Katja Knezevic join Nicholas Barrett and Niclas Poitiers to discuss the systematic hurdles. 

The coronavirus is going to hit the global economy hard, but how hard? What can policymakers plan for the months ahead? Nicholas Barrett asks Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis about economic symptoms and treatments 

When it comes to global carbon emission is a tax the best form of defence? To make the European Green Deal work, the EU is considering a levy on carbon-intensive goods manufactured beyond its borders. But will a carbon border tax spawn a massive bureaucracy and lead to accusations of protectionism? To find out, Nicholas Barrett talked to Georg Zachmann and Ben McWilliams from Bruegel and Gabriel Felbermayr, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

As the Coronavirus continues to spread, schools have closed, flights have been canceled and entire towns have been quarantined. Most of those who contract the virus will undoubtedly survive, but can the same be said for globalisation? Is it time for economists to question the virtue of international supply chains? Should policymakers in the west be thinking twice about our material dependency on Chinese manufacturing? And is an economic contagion as dangerous as its medical equivalent? To discuss this, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Nicolas Veron and Niclas Poitiers, and down the line from Spain, by Alicia Garcia Herrero.

Despite the political antagonism, the EU and Russia are not only geographically, but also economically, reliant on each other: European houses are heated using Russian natural gas and Russia is highly dependent on European investment. Should the EU develop closer political ties with Russia? How much leverage does the EU have when dealing with the Kremlin? This week, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Niclas Poitiers and Marta Domínguez-Jímenez to discuss European foreign direct investment in Russia.

From cashless payments to digital banking, finance has become intangible and global. But, while speed and convenience have made our international transactions easier, have we become more vulnerable? How can the EU respond to the increased risk of hybrid threats? This week, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Jukka Savolainen, Director of Community of Interest “Vulnerabilities and Resilience” at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, and Maria Demertzis, to discuss the risks that hybrid threats pose to the financial system.  

While the US and China have been setting the pace when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, the European Union seems to be lagging behind. What are the Commission's plans to finally catch up? Will AI increase the gap between big and small companies? Nicholas Barrett asked Julia Anderson and Guntram Wolff

AI promises a new industrial revolution but history warns us that industrial revolutions aren't always that fun for people in the eye of the storm. This week, Nicholas Barrett and Maria Demertzis spoke with Dr. Carl Frey, author of the book "The technology trap: capital, labor, and power in the age of automation", and Robert D. Atkinson, President of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), about how artificial intelligence will affect the job market.

On Saturday morning, the United Kingdom will wake up outside the European Union. After 37 years of collaboration, how will Brexit affect research and innovation in Europe and in the UK? What should be the next steps undertaken by both in order to maintain the same level of cooperation? This week, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Maria Demertzis, Guntram Wolff and Michael Leigh, Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, to discuss a post-Brexit agreement for research and innovation.

Will Brexit damage Britain's financial services industry? Or is talk of its diminished status just a storm in a teacup? The City of London could move closer to Wall Street or it might become "Singapore-on-Thames". Nicholas Barrett talks to Rebecca Christie about banking after Brexit.

The European Commission has presented its Just Transition Fund to help regions still dependent on fossil fuel as they move towards green energy. But where does the money come from and is it enough to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050? Should the EU re-write its fiscal rules to encourage sustainable investment? And should environmentalists be optimistic? Nicholas Barrett asked Simone Tagliapietra and Grégory Claeys.

Last Friday, Qassem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' QUDS force, was killed by an American airstrike outside Baghdad airport. Tehran has promised to retaliate. At the time of recording, the world is still waiting to see how Iran will respond. Some have speculated that they could disrupt the world's oil markets by closing the Strait of Hormuz, which acts as a vital artery for around a third of the world's liquefied natural gas and almost a quarter of the world's oil. Today, oil prices surpassed $70 a barrel and if tensions continue to escalate the price is bound to grow. How dependent is the global economy on affordable Middle Eastern fossil fuel? This week, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Maria Demertzis and Niclas Poitiers to discuss how the US-Iran hostilities are affecting the global economy.

2019 is coming to an end and so is the decade. How did economics change the world over the last ten years? And how did the world change economics? Which economics books defined the last ten years? And what should we anticipate in the decade to come? Today, Nicholas Barrett discusses the past and the future with Niclas Poitiers and Maria Demertzis.

Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff went to the Berlaymont to interview Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age. 

How do states exercise power through global economic networks? The multilateral world order is supposed to be harmonious, but by seizing the nodes of production, powerful forces can control access to the global economic system and threaten to lock their rival out. This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff are joined by Henry Farrell, Professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University, and Abraham L. Newman, Professor of Government at the Georgetown University, to discuss their theory of weaponised interdependency

President Ursula Von der Leyen has presented her European Green Deal before the European Parliament. How will it work? What are its implications? And will it make Europe carbon neutral by 2050? Nicholas Barrett asks Simone Tagliapietra what's inside the Green Deal.

The UK goes to the polls on Thursday to decide who (and if) they want to "get Brexit done". But, as soon as Britain leaves, it will have 11 months to agree a trade deal with the EU. Is it possible? Nicholas Barrett is joined by Maria Demertzis and Niclas Poitiers to discuss post-Brexit trade deals with the EU and the USA.

Russia wants to export more gas to China, should the EU be concerned? This week, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Georg Zachmann to discuss the EU-Russia-China energy triangle.

Will EU tech regulations undermine its ability to innovate? From facial recognition to the production of “deep fakes”, artificial intelligence poses many ethical questions. In a world where China and the US are investing massively in AI, how can the EU protect its values while harnessing technology? These are some of the questions we discuss with Brent Mittlestadt, from the University of Oxford, and Andre Loesekrug-Pietri, from the Joint European Disruptive Initiative, in our new Sound of Economics podcast. The podcast is hosted by Guntram Wolff and Nicholas Barrett.

Don't worry if you missed part one because all of Bruegel's pillars for a European Green Deal are created equal. This time, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss industrial policy and the social consequences of the green deal with Grégory Claeys and Simone Tagliapietra. To read the paper in full, visit Bruegel.org 

The European Green Deal will be a defining feature of Ursula Von der Leyen's incoming Commission. But will carbon border taxes and single carbon prices be enough to make Europe carbon-neutral by 2050? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss Bruegel's new paper 'How to make the European Green Deal Work' with Grégory Claeys and Simone Tagliapietra.

Digital banking has made our lives easier, but why are people use mobile banking more likely to be overdrawn? This week Maria Demertzis and Nicholas Barrett are joined by Annamaria Lusardi, Denit Trust Endowed Chair of Economics and Accountancy from George Washington University School of Business to discuss financial literacy

With interest rates so low for so long, central bankers are running out of levers to pull. But perhaps better fiscal policy can help economies grow as well as cutting carbon emissions. Politicians, journalists and economist have spent years bickering about the quantity of public spending in Europe, but the quality of public spending could be just as important.  This week's podcast features Maria Demertzis, Boris Cournede, Francesco Papadia and Nicholas Barrett.

Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff talk to Kalypso Nicolaïdis, author of Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit. Together they discuss the mythology that binds Britain to continental Europe

The European Union and Mercosur – a customs union covering Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay  – have spent two decades negotiating a trade agreement. The gains are modest the ratification process will be anything but easy. Nevertheless, the deal is worth fighting for according to Uri Dadush. This week he joins Nicholas Barrett on our Deep Focus podcast to discuss the perils and process of an agreement that could be as significant to the globe's climate as it is for the global economy. Read the latest policy contribution by Michael Baltensperger and Uri Dadush on the same topic.

Increasing cyber and hybrid risks will test the European Union's system of fragmentation on issues of security but centralisation on financial and other economic issues. This asymmetry was not an obstacle in a world in which security threats were more contained or of a different nature. But the world is changing.  But what is a hybrid attack and whose responsibility is it to deal with? Last week Bruegel's Director, Guntram Wolff and our Deputy Director Maria Demertzis presented a paper on the subject to ECOFIN, an informal meeting of European finance ministers in Helsinki. In this episode of Bruegel's "Sound of Economics" podcast, Nicholas Barrett sits down with Guntram Wolff to find out.  

How complete is Europe's monetary union? Is the euro area ready for a next recession or an economic crisis? What should be the reform priorities? In this podcast, Nicholas Barrett discusses the priorities for Europe's monetary union, with Zsolt Darvas.

What can the EU's incoming leadership do to protect Europe's economic autonomy in light of America and China's economic, geopolitical struggle for supremacy? In this podcast, Nicholas Barrett discusses enhancing Europe's economic sovereignty, with Jean Pisani-Ferry.

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Works by Reger, Krenek, and Villa-Lobos performed by Nicholas Barrett, guitar on February 17, 2016

Thomas-Olivier Léautier, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management, France and Fabien Roques, Compass Lexecon, University Paris Dauphine, France. While directing the Florence School of Regulation’s Executive Course to master Electricity Markets, 18-19 January 2016, in Florence, Italy, Thomas-Olivier Léautier and Fabien Roques met with reporter Nicholas Barrett to discuss the relationship between regulation and economics as well as the EU’s efforts to tackle climate change. Thomas-Olivier Léautier: “We need to reduce our carbon emissions while protecting our standard of living. Therefore, we need to, if possible, consume less electricity and produce less CO2 as we produce electricity. That requires tens of hundreds of billions of euros of investment. The more efficiently we do this… the cheaper this massive transformation is going be for society… it's super important.” Fabien Roques: “The European Commissions, even though it’s been criticised, is doing a good job even with the limited powers it’s got.” Fabien Roques: “In Europe, each country is very small regarding climate change compared to America and China, so having a coordinated approach to climate change is the only way for Europe to be one of the leaders on climate change.”

Professor Mats Nilsson, an economist at Luleå University of Technology. Here he talks to Nicholas Barrett about the transition to renewable energy and Europe's "extreme focus on renewables". "There is a good intention behind the support for renewables, but we have to remember that the support for renewables was for a sustainability goal, but that has become mixed with the co2 goal." "The manufacturing industry is now starting to leave Europe as a protest against the rising electricity costs. That comes as a shock, I think, to policy makers and industry members alike." "We don't have to continue, we can take a deep breath, we can phase out the renewable support we have."

George Paidakakis is a Legal Officer at Regulatory Authority for Energy, Greece. Here he talks to Nicholas Barrett about his ambitions for the Greek Energy market. "The idea is that when it comes to the electricity market is to reduce market power when it exisits, giving more flexibility to the system where possible and as soon as possible " "When it comes to the natural gas market, we're doing big steps towards the opening up of the market in the retail sector."

Professor Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Here he talks to Nicholas Barrett about the algorithms after our money. "The use of a single algorithm could have a de-facto horizontal impact on pricing." "We also reflect on the possibility of using algorithms to facilitate tacit collusion." "We discussed the possibility of almost perfect price discrimination, the possibility for platforms to make use of data in order to try to second guess the reservation price for customers and target them in a way that would optimise profit." "When we speak about big data and energy, the questions are whether the ability of the supplier to gather information, even through the meters, as to the behaviour of the customers and their usage could then be leveraged in order to gain an advantage over others."

http://florence-school.eu/event/fsr-climate-annual-conference-2015/?instance_id=302 Claudio Marcantonini, is the deputy director of FSR Climate. Here he talks to Nicholas Barrett about the first 10 years of the European Union's emission Trading Scheme and what it means to the rest of the world. "The EU ETS did not have a strong negative impact on the economy, there was no negative impact in terms of production, job losses or relocation of industries" "There is no evidence of carbon leakage, we have reduced emissions in Europe but not at the expense of increased emissions in other parts of the world." "It shows that a carbon price is feasible and that you can build a policy that puts a price on emissions on a level the size of Europe."

Mario Ragwitz, Deputy Head of Competence Center Energy Policy and Energy Markets, Coordinator of Business Unit Renewable Energies, talks to Nicholas Barrett about funding for renewable energy in Europe. This recording was made on 22 October during FSR Climate 2015 Annual Conference. “We have seen a strong decline in the generation costs of renewables and a number of technologies are already competitive today in good locations such as on-shore wind and solar in southern Europe.” “We see that market values of renewables decrease with increased market integration, therefore, you probably still need another decade before renewables are fully cost competitive.”

James Day and Segun Olusanya interview Dr Nicholas Barrett, a consultant in ICM at St Thomas' Hospital involved in the severe hypoxia service.