WSJ's Take On the Week

Telis Demos, Miriam Gottfried

Booking Overview

This weekly markets-and-investing interview show features senior economists, portfolio strategists, academic experts, and financial-industry specialists discussing timely developments in markets, the economy, and investing. Credible pitches include recognized asset managers, chief strategists, economists, commodities analysts, tax experts, and other finance professionals with distinctive, data-driven perspectives; booking difficulty is high because of the Wall Street Journal platform and the seniority of its guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 133

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 144.0k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Telis Demos - Writer for The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column.

Miriam Gottfried - The Wall Street Journal reporter covering investing and wealth management.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior finance and investment professionals, economists, academic experts, and specialists with leadership roles at established financial institutions, research firms, asset managers, or relevant government agencies.

Required Achievements:

Leadership or senior strategy roles at major financial institutions or research firms, Academic expertise in economics or finance, Former senior government or central-bank service, Founding a specialized investment or tax advisory firm, Distinctive analysis of current market or economic developments

Recent Guest Discussions

Jill Cetina - Inflation, Treasury Inflation-protected Securities, I Bonds, Bond Duration, And Treasury Bill Issuance.

Ohsung Kwon - Tariff Refunds, Consumer-staples Earnings, Artificial Intelligence Capital Expenditures, The U.s. Economy, And Ai-related Job Replacement Concerns.

Roukaya Ibrahim - Oil Prices, Geopolitical Tensions, Inventory Data, Supply Risks, Gold, Inflation, And The Federal Reserve.

Kaitlin Hendrix - Private-market Exposure, Public Index Funds, Portfolio Diversification, Investment Fees, And The Effect Of Private-company Investments On Big-tech Earnings.

Brent Sullivan - Tax-aware Long-short Investing, Tax-loss Harvesting, Leverage, Short Selling, And Tax-efficient Portfolio Implementation.

Recent Topics

Investing, Markets, Finance, Economics, Wealth Management

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

WSJ's Take On the Week

A Breakthrough Cancer Vaccine Fueled a Biotech Rally. Can It Last?

September 13, 2026

Despite a rough past week for the healthcare sector, pharmaceuticals and biotech stocks have outperformed the S&P 500 this year. Investors have gotten excited over cancer treatment breakthroughs for Moderna, Merck and Revolution Medicines—plus regulatory shakeups at the FDA. But is market hype running ahead of reality? Can the rally last? On this week’s episode, co-hosts Telis Demos and Miriam Gottfried are joined by WSJ’s Heard on the Street columnist David Wainer to discuss how AI and ...

How AI Speculation Is Fueling the Small-Cap Stock Rally

August 30, 2026

On this week’s episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, host Miriam Gottfried and guest host Aaron Back, editor of WSJ’s Heard on the Street, preview the upcoming employment and inflation releases in advance of the Federal Open Market Committee’s September policy meeting. They analyze why these economic indicators will draw heightened focus under Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. Then Miriam and Aaron dig into Nvidia’s recent blowout earnings and whether we will see that echo in Broadcom’s earn...

What Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole Debut Means for Nervous Markets

August 23, 2026

In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, co-hosts Miriam Gottfried and Telis Demos preview the upcoming Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium—one of the longest-standing central banking conferences in the world. They are joined by Columbia Business School professor and former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin, as well as the Journal’s Chief Economics Correspondent Nick Timiraos, to break down Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s major move away from explicit forward guidance. Together, ...

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