PBS News Hour - World - Machado presents Trump her Nobel Prize as uncertainty surrounds Venezuela’s leadership
1A - How Change Affects Our Brains And Identities
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist. Her latest book, “The Other Side of Change,” attempts to answer this question by looking at how change affects the brain and our identities.
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PBS News Hour - Health - Black midwife’s death highlights racial gap in maternal mortality
Marketplace All-in-One - Trump’s latest plan to lower mortgage rates
President Trump recently ordered government-backed mortgage companies (that’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to buy up $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities. The last time they bought these bonds was the 2008 financial crisis. Will the move actually lower rates? Probably not much. Also in this episode: Venture capital can thank AI for a 2025 rebound, banks fight to block stablecoin interest yields, and more young people are getting prenups.
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PBS News Hour - Health - White House slashes, then restores, funding to treat mental health and addiction
PBS News Hour - Art Beat - 3D tech preserves and reproduces masterpieces, raising ethical questions
The Phil Ferguson Show - 542 ROTH Conversion – Vanguard tool – re-balance – LT Gains – Home costs
Vanguard has a new tool that may help but, it has llimitations.
It is a good time to think about re-balancing your portfolio.
Why you might want to pay some extra taxes on realized LT Gains
Why are houses so expensive and why it might get worse.
The Gist - Charles Duhigg: “Looping for Understanding” and Other Supercommunicator Tricks
Charles Duhigg returns to explain why great talkers are usually great listeners, and how "looping for understanding" can lower the temperature in almost any disagreement. Plus, a Spiel about going on the record about going off-the-record and we play everybody's favorite Game "Who is Donald Trump Threatening Here"
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WSJ What’s News - Trump Told Attack on Iran Wouldn’t Guarantee Collapse of Regime
P.M. Edition for Jan. 15. As President Trump weighs whether to strike Iran, he’s been advised that a large-scale strike against the country would be unlikely to make the regime fall, U.S. officials said. WSJ national security reporter Alex Ward says that doesn’t mean that military action is off the table. Plus, an Arizona mine that became the first new source of U.S. copper in decades has a new big customer: Amazon. Journal reporter Ryan Dezember discusses what’s going on in the U.S. copper industry. And there’s new charges in the basketball betting scandal that is now one of the most sprawling gambling cases in the history of American sports. Alex Ossola hosts.
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