Everybody's Business

Max Chafkin, Stacey Vanek Smith

Booking Overview

A weekly business and economics interview/news-analysis show focused on markets, companies, and power, it typically features Bloomberg Businessweek journalists and editors with timely subject-matter expertise rather than a regular roster of outside executives. PR agencies could credibly pitch economists, business authors, policy experts, and executives with distinctive, newsworthy insight, but booking is likely high-difficulty because the lineup is editorially driven and heavily favors established Bloomberg contributors.

Metrics

Episodes: 76

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 16.4k subscribers

Instagram: 781.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

isusnow@bloomberg.net

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Host

Max Chafkin - Award-winning business and economics journalist and author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power.

Stacey Vanek Smith - Business and economics journalist, former co-host of NPR’s Planet Money, and former reporter for Marketplace.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established business, economics, policy, or industry expertise, with strong reporting, research, executive experience, or a timely connection to a major business story.

Required Achievements:

Senior reporting or editorial roles at major business media outlets, Published research, analysis, or books on relevant business and economic issues, Recognized expertise on timely market, policy, corporate, or consumer trends

Recent Guest Discussions

Deena Shanker - The Disappearance Of Generic Triscuits And Consumer Food Products.

Randall Williams - The Growth Of Soccer’s Popularity In The United States.

Timothy L. O’Brien - Presidential Politics, Influence, And Profiteering.

Naureen Malik - Energy Consumption, Electricity Grids, And The Impact Of Data Centers.

Ben Steverman - The Decline Of Affordable Entertainment And Why Fun Has Become A Luxury Good.

Recent Topics

Economics, Markets, Finance, Business, Corporations

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Everybody's Business

The Robots Have Stolen Your Summer

August 14, 2026

Computer, create a banger about this month’s computer accessories CPI numbers with big bass and funny lyrics. Make no mistakes. The memory chip shortage is here. Should businesses cheer or should consumers fear? Max and Stacey supply the facts about business interests in AI, especially when it comes to making the music that makes us laugh and cry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One Weird Trick to Get Your Credit Card Charge Reversed? Fraud.

August 11, 2026

Bloomberg’s daily news podcast Big Take recently released an episode about the increasing amount of credit card disputes in the US, and how the phenomena of “friendly fraud” plays a part in that rise. Please enjoy, and hop on over to subscribe to their feed if you like what you hear!——————— American consumers disputed nearly 30% more credit card transactions in 2025 than they did just four years earlier. Some of those “chargeba...

A Gut Check on Political Spending

August 07, 2026

This week, there’s a lot to digest. Max and Stacey dig into the recent elections in Michigan and what this means for the future of political spending with Businessweek correspondent Wes Kosova. Plus, Deena Shanker unpacks the image problem at the Department of Health and Human Services with the cyclospora outbreak, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new cooking show and cuts to SNAP funding.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Publicly listed emails

isusnow@bloomberg.net

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