Solutions with Henry Blodget

We hear enough about our problems. Let’s solve them. Every Monday, journalist, analyst and entrepreneur Henry Blodget interviews leading thinkers across business, tech, politics and beyond about their big ideas for how to build a better future. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episodes

How Mark Cuban Wants to Fix Healthcare

October 6, 2025 • 60 mins

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has set out to fix the broken U.S. healthcare system, and he’s starting with drug prices. In 2022, Cuban launched the online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs, which aims to sell generic drugs at huge discounts. He explains the business, how it’s going, and why expensive hospital visits are next on his list. Plus, we get his takes on sports gambling, Silicon Valley’s turn to the right, and AI. Note: this ep...

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How to Worry Less & Find Meaning with Happiness Expert Arthur Brooks

September 29, 2025 • 54 mins

Arthur Brooks has spent years studying the exact components of a happy life. And now, the bestselling author and Harvard professor has collected his top findings into a new book: The Happiness Files. This week, we ask him how to worry less about money, find your calling, and what research tells us all happy people have in common. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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How to Actually Be Healthier

September 22, 2025 • 62 mins

Dr. Jessica Knurick is a rare kind of academic: she's also very good at social media, and has recently gone viral for her criticisms of the MAHA movement. A registered dietitian with a PhD in nutrition science, Dr. Knurick says MAHA is right that Americans are notoriously unhealthy, but the movement has the solutions all wrong. This week, we turn to Dr. Knurick for the facts: what do we know about what is good for us, what small th...

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How to Stop Russian Ops from Exploiting AI

September 15, 2025 • 48 mins

According to a recent report from data collected in August, when prompted on divisive topics in the news, the top 10 AI chatbots spread false information 35% of the time — and even spread fake stories intentionally planted by Russian disinformation campaigns. So why are LLMs vulnerable to disinformation and how have Russian operatives have learned to exploit them? This week, an explanation and solution from the co-founders of N...

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How to Turbo Charge Your Career (And Not Give A...) with Kara Swisher

September 8, 2025 • 73 mins

Confidence comes easy for Kara Swisher. It’s one of the reasons she walked out of class in second grade (she knew everything), and later built a career as one of Silicon Valley’s most feared and respected journalists. Kara tells us her secrets to success, why she’s optimistic about the future of media vs. AI, and why so many powerful figures in tech still manage to maintain a victim mentality. Plus: how Steve Jobs would have hand...

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How This Company is Building Flying Taxis

September 1, 2025 • 59 mins

When will it be relatively normal to request a ride from a flying taxi? Within the next decade, at least according to our guests today: Stuart Simpson, CEO of Vertical Aerospace, and Jason Mudrick, the company’s largest shareholder and founder of Mudrick Capital Management. Vertical Aerospace is one of three companies trying to make flying taxis a reality now. This week, Stuart and Mudrick tell Henry about the aircraft the company ...

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How to AI-Proof Your Job

August 25, 2025 • 68 mins

Harvard economist and researcher David Deming studies technology and the future of work. Lately, he’s been doing a lot of research about AI: he’s dug into technological shifts of the past for clues about what might happen to the U.S. labor market now, and he’s even quantified the rapid rate of adoption of generative AI. Deming doubts AI will cause a jobs apocalypse, but he does believe things will change. Today, he tells us his i...

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How Paul Krugman Would Fix The Economy

August 18, 2025 • 81 mins

What would an actually good tariff policy look like? Can the U.S. ever bring back manufacturing jobs, and should it? How bad is the deficit and what can we do to address it? In the first episode of Solutions, Henry asks Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about the most pressing problems facing the U.S. economy — and how he would fix them. Follow Solutions on TikTok and Instagram @solutionswithhenry Paul Krugman writes ...

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Introducing Solutions with Henry Blodget

August 8, 2025 • 1 min

It feels like we’re drowning in problems right now. But for every one of our problems, there are smart, enterprising people working hard to solve them. Which is why acclaimed journalist and entrepreneur Henry Blodget is launching a new podcast called Solutions. Every week, he’ll interview leading thinkers across business, tech, politics and beyond about their big ideas for building a better future. Coming to YouTube and other podca...

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