Plus: Shares of Shopify fall following outage. And bitcoin treasury company Strategy cuts outlook amid Bitcoin price drop. Julie Chang hosts.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Why Central Banks Still Prefer Gold Over BTC | CoinDesk Daily
Is gold beating bitcoin in 2025?
Mark Connors of Risk Dimensions argues that bitcoin is simply "too young" to rival gold's centuries of established infrastructure. With BTC down approximately 12% and gold rallying 60% in the past year, is gold winning the race as a safe haven asset in 2025? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
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State of the World from NPR - Rebuilding Smarter in Jamaica
A month ago, Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a category five— one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in the Atlantic. Scientists agree that Melissa was made stronger by climate change. We meet some Jamaicans that are wondering how to rebuild smarter for the possibility that another powerful storm may hit in the future.
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The Journal. - Inside Quince’s Quest to Sell Luxury Goods for Less
Quince is seemingly everywhere. Since launching in 2018, the brand has built an e-commerce empire that brings in $1.1 billion annually, and has catapulted to the top of the "dupe" economy. But the company’s strategy of making its own versions of best-selling products has run into some pushback from competitors. WSJ’s Chavie Lieber takes us inside Quince’s strategy and ensuing legal battles. Jessica Mendoza hosts.
Further Listening:
- Smucker, Trader Joe's and a Battle Over PB&Js
- Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Labubus?
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Big Technology Podcast - Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
M.G. Siegler of Spyglass is back for our monthly tech news discussion. Today we dig into whether Tim Cook will retire in 2026, what his legacy will be, and who will likely succeed him as Apple CEO. We also touch on the various Big Tech companies jostling for the title of largest company in the world and what it says about the AI race. Finally, we cover Anthropic's push to become profitable by 2028 and what it says about the state of the AI race.
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Big Technology Podcast - Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
M.G. Siegler of Spyglass is back for our monthly tech news discussion. Today we dig into whether Tim Cook will retire in 2026, what his legacy will be, and who will likely succeed him as Apple CEO. We also touch on the various Big Tech companies jostling for the title of largest company in the world and what it says about the AI race. Finally, we cover Anthropic's push to become profitable by 2028 and what it says about the state of the AI race.
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The Bulwark Podcast - Bill Kristol: A Kleptocratic, Autocratic Cabal
Not only are the opportunities for personal financial gain for Trump and his White House cronies driving the administration’s foreign policy decisions, his tariffs look more and more about grift. Trump also inexplicably granted clemency to a private equity exec who ripped off ordinary Americans in a Ponzi scheme, while he plans a pardon for a former Honduran president who trafficked cocaine to America—even as he orders the bombings of suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, on the immigration front, Border Patrol is moving into NOLA, and the administration is exploiting the heinous and tragic DC Guard shooting to try to rid the country of black and brown immigrants.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes
- Bill's 'Bulwark on Sunday' on Trump's anti-immigrant agenda
- Tim's 'Bulwark Take' on Scott Jennings
- WSJ's piece, "Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine"
- NYT on David Sacks
- Andy McCarthy on the killing of two survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean
- Makeup-less Trump at Mar-a-Lago
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1A - ‘If You Can Keep It’: The Former Feds Running For Office
Over 210,000 federal workers left their jobs this year because of the Trump administration.
That’s according to the Partnership for Public Service Harms Tracker. For many, it’s meant walking away from, or being pushed out of, a decades-long commitment to public service.
And one trend that’s emerging? Fired or laid-off former federal employees and contractors are running for public office.
We feature the voices of several former federal workers to hear why they see politics as the next step, especially after being forced out of jobs that were always meant to stay apolitical. What does it mean for the future health of our democracy?
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That’s according to the Partnership for Public Service Harms Tracker. For many, it’s meant walking away from, or being pushed out of, a decades-long commitment to public service.
And one trend that’s emerging? Fired or laid-off former federal employees and contractors are running for public office.
We feature the voices of several former federal workers to hear why they see politics as the next step, especially after being forced out of jobs that were always meant to stay apolitical. What does it mean for the future health of our democracy?
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Why 2026 Could Bring a Bear Market | Markets Outlook
Markus Thielen, 10x Research, predicts an imminent crypto bear market and up to a 60% correction in 2026,
Is the crypto bull run over? In this episode of Markets Outlook, Markus Thielen, founder of 10x Research, joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie, to discuss why we might be heading into a bear market in 2026.
Thielen argues that US stocks historically perform poorly during midterm election cycles. Combining this historical trend with the "institutional fatigue" visible in recent ETF outflows, he breaks down the data suggesting a potential 60% correction is on the horizon.
We also discuss the recent shift in "Whale" accumulation behavior and why the "digital gold" narrative is currently struggling to keep pace with physical gold performance.
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Break the cycle of exploitation.
Break down the barriers to truth.
Break into the next generation of privacy.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.
Social Science Bites - Devyani Sharma on Accents
What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what do others hear in your accent? These are the sorts of questions that Devyani Sharma, a professor of language and communication at Oxford's Worcester College, asks every day, especially about the many English speakers around the world.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Sharma takes a deep dive into the accents of Britain, where accents have famously been used as markers of social status for years. As she tells interviewer David Edmonds, "the UK stands out as a country that's organized its whole social system around accent for a very long time."
While that's been true historically, Sharma's own research and public service – through projects like Generations of London English, Dialect Development and Style in a Diasporic Community, and the Accent Bias Britain online resource – has helped reduce the negatives around that.
As she details for Edmonds, "Interestingly, just a reminder that 'you might be relying on accent as a shortcut and please don't' was enough to change recruiters' behavior. It doesn't always happen with gender and race anymore, and my sense is that's because the message has been saturated. People are annoyed to be reminded before doing a recruiting task, but they haven't thought as much about how much they use accent when judging people."