Month: June 2021

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Strict Scrutiny - Love and Basketball

Leah and Melissa do a quick dash through Monday’s opinions in Arthrex, NCAA v. Alston, and Goldman v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement Systems and a quick note on Nestle v. Doe before allowing Leah time to work out some feelings on Justice Alito’s dissent in the ACA case.

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Pod Save America - “That new Biden smell.” (with Sen. Bernie Sanders!)

Joe Biden’s approval rating takes a hit among some Democrats as Republicans obstruct his agenda, law professor Melissa Murray joins to discuss whether the Supreme Court is as right-wing as we thought, and Senator Bernie Sanders talks to Tommy Vietor about the latest negotiations in Congress over voting rights, infrastructure, and more.



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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Uber, Lyft Are Expensive, So Does That Mean Cabs Are Back?

Even as customers return to cabs and ride shares, companies are finding it hard to get drivers back behind the wheel. A.D. Quig of Crain’s Chicago Business explains why. Plus, we hear from riders and drivers. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating, it helps other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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Consider This from NPR - 50 Years Later, Is America’s War On Drugs At A Turning Point?

In June 1971, then-President Richard Nixon said the U.S. had a new public enemy number one: addiction. It was the beginning of America's long war on drugs.

Fifty years later, during months of interviews, NPR found a growing consensus across the political spectrum — including among some in law enforcement — that the drug war simply didn't work.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The De-Chinafication of Bitcoin

People’s Bank of China pushes banks to cut ties to virtual currency traders in latest crypto crackdown.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

On this episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW takes a brief look at the most recent crypto news before taking a deeper dive into the latest step in the de-Chinafication of bitcoin.

  • MicroStrategy going “all-in” on bitcoin
  • Michael Burry’s warnings on Twitter of the “Mother of All Crashes”
  • The “dot plot shock” and post-FOMC meeting confusion
  • Accelerating China mining ban


While in this in-between state, post-COVID and pre-monetary policy tapering, institutional investors find themselves on diverging and opposing paths. Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy has gone “all in,” while at the same time investor Michael Burry took to Twitter with warnings of an upcoming “Mother of All Crashes.” Confusion following the Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting only adds to the contention between investors with contrasting visions for the near future of crypto.

The Central Bank of China has convened a meeting with the major banks to reiterate and tighten previous policies on the prevention of virtual currency transactions in bank accounts. Is this restriction on crypto transactions yet another indication that China is taking a more aggressive stance against bitcoin?

More to this point, Sichuan became the most recent province to crack down on crypto mining. Sichuan, primarily mining with hydropower, seems to diminish previous ban reasoning citing environmental concerns. How far will China go to remove itself from bitcoin, and what does that mean for its citizens and the crypto space as a whole?

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