Month: December 2024

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Motley Fool Money - 2024’s Winners and Losers

The S&P 500 finished the year up about 24%, more than double the index’s average annual return.


(00:49) Asit Sharma and Ricky Mulvey check in on the year in investing. They discuss:


- What most of the biggest winners in the S&P 500 had in common.

- Why more investors bought gold and Bitcoin in 2024.

- A tough stretch for Walgreens Boot Alliance.

- Their favorite investing discoveries from the past year.


Companies discussed: PLTR, VST, UAL, NVDA, AXON, LULU, NFLX, WBA, INTC, DLTR


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Asit Sharma

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Desireé Jones

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Handpicked For The Holidays: A Toast To Chicago’s Twisted Classic, Malort

The Reset team has gone through our year of conversations and hand-selected our personal faves to share with you before 2024 wraps up. In September, Reset sat down with writer Josh Noel to talk about his book, Malort: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit. His book asks how a spirit that “tastes like bandaids” and has been the butt of many jokes survive generations and go from a lone bottle collecting dust in the back of bars to becoming an infamous Chicago must-try experience? This conversation has been lightly edited for clarity. You can find the original interview here: New book chronicles the unlikely staying power of Jeppson’s Malört (September 5, 2024). For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Bulwark Podcast - Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission

While some media outlets may be moving to accommodate Trump out of fear he'll target them, The Bulwark will not be recalibrating. We'll keep providing the (sometimes funny) content you expect, we'll try not to chase Trump's bait (Canada, Greenland, Panama), and we'll disaggregate the real from the trolling. Plus, when one of the worst people in the world makes a good point, and how much is Trump stuck with Elon? 

Sarah and JVL join Tim for the last show of 2024. Happy New Year!

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The Gist - Funny You Should Mention…Again – Mike Yard

Mike Yard is a standup comic who has appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, Flatbush Misdemeanors, and was a contributor to The Nightly Show with Larry WiImore. He is both an ex-felon and a union leader at the Museum of Modern Art. In this conversation, we discuss Yard's jokes about his pro-prison stance, leaving the Virgin Islands for the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, and his suspicions about candlelight vigils.


Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Religious Syncretism: The Ultimate Conspiracy?

Religions are as old as humanity, and predate the written word. They've also been home to a great many secrets -- in fact, some religions have been predicated on secrecy, and others are amalgamations of two preexisting belief systems. Join the guys as they explore the strange rise of religions, the ways in which they have melded over time and, ultimately, ask whether there are any real secret religions active in the world today.

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