Month: September 2020

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The Intelligence from The Economist - After Abe: Japan’s new prime minister

Japan’s new prime minister will be Yoshihide Suga, the son of a strawberry farmer from the country’s rural north. We look at whether he can step into the shoes of Abe Shinzo and revive Japan’s troubled economy. America may be leaving the World Health Organisation, but the institution has handled the pandemic well. And the standing of dogs in Islam is hounding clerics. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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The Best One Yet - “TikTok refuses to sell TikTok” — Oracle’s TikTok-uisition. Pepsi’s dream drink. Delta’s frequent flyer fundrais

The winner of the TikTok sweepstakes is officially oracle — even though they’re technically not buying it. Pepsi whipped up a drink to help you fall asleep because it’s part of the beverage trend of 2020 — functional. And Delta is raising money in the most creative and airline-ish way possible: Frequent flyer miles. $ORCL $PEP $DAL Want a shoutout on the pod? We got the form for Snackers to fill out right here: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - What Ever Happened to More Stimulus?

This is what coronavirus purgatory looks like: Our present economic doldrums are brutal for service workers and tolerable for white-collar workers. Congress is deadlocked over a second coronavirus relief bill. And the market is performing as if help is on the way. 

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. 

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The NewsWorthy - Hurricane Sally, Life on Venus? & Hip Hop Auction- Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, September 15th, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • the path of Hurricane Sally as it moves toward the gulf coast
  • how wildfires are now impacting the race for president
  • a unique signing ceremony at the White House
  • new evidence young children can spread COVID-19
  • astronomers finding signs of life on Venus
  • Walmart launching a new subscription service
  • a first-of-its-kind auction featuring items from rap legends

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.TheNewsWorthy.com under the section titled 'Episodes' to read more about any of the stories mentioned or see sources below...

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Sources:

Hurricane Sally Intensifies: AP, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, Axios, NOAA, NHC

Trump, Biden Clash on Climate Change: AP, Reuters, WSJ, LA Times, Politico, White House

Western Wildfires Latest: WSJ, SFGate. LA Times, NY Times, Air Quality Index

CDC: Kids Can Spread COVID-19: NBC News, Forbes, Axios, CDC

Dems Investigate Trump Admin Interfering with CDC: Politico, WaPo, The Hill, CNBC, CBS News

Israel, UAE to Sign Deal Today: AP, The Hill, BBC, Jerusalem Post, Al Jazeera

UN General Assembly Begins: United Nations, Agenda 

Signs of Life on Venus: NBC News, CBS News, Reuters, NASA, Full Study

Surfer Sets New World Record: The Atlantic, CNN, Guinness World Records, Watch the Record-Breaker

Walmart+ Launches: AP, NBC News, TechRadar, Walmart

Amazon Hiring 100k New Workers: AP, WSJ, Amazon

Sotheby’s Hip Hop Auction: Mashable, CNN, Sotheby’s

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Short Wave - Saving Water A Flush At A Time

Flushing toilets can consume a lot of water. So Tak-Sing Wong, a biomedical engineer at Penn State University, is trying to minimize how much is needed. Wong developed a slippery coating for the inside of a toilet bowl. In this encore episode, he tells us it can potentially move human waste more efficiently, leaving a cleaner bowl with less water.

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NBN Book of the Day - R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, “Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet” (Verso, 2020

Is there a consensus on the best response to global warming? Not even close. Left and right both bring their own tools, math, and, most notably, agendas--climate related and non-climate related--to their policy prescriptions.

Economist Robert Pollin has teamed up with Noam Chomsky to produce a manifesto for the New Green Deal in Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (Verso). Their plan attempts to keep the planet from heating up too much while simultaneously redressing the economic wrongs that they blame substantially on unfettered capitalism.

Not everyone will agree that eco-socialism is the answer to global warming, but all participants in the debate will want to understand the wide range of policy proposals that are being brought to the table.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona.

Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @HistoryInvestor or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com

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