Are misunderstandings about IRA accounts keeping you from financial security? Money Girl details 3 of the most common mistakes that may be preventing you from using IRAs to build wealth. Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/1AkXSBz
The Gist - Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Patents
Today on The Gist, Mary Pilon shares the real history of the board game your family never finishes. She’s the author of The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game. Plus, Mike and his son Emmett explain what Dumbo tells us about the Greek economy. For the Spiel, a deep dive into voice-casting.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Eternal Criminal Record
A criminal record can permanently change your life for the worse. James B. Jacobs analyzes the use and abuse of criminal records in his new book, The Eternal Criminal Record.
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The Gist - Songs That Almost Killed the American Songbook
Obama promised hope and change, but what about managing expectations for hope and change? Today on The Gist, former Obama strategist David Axelrod shares insights from his new book Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Plus, we examine a strange transitional moment for popular music and the American Songbook with Ben Yagoda. He’s the author of The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song. For the Spiel, a man who never e-mails, and the Yemenis who got caught in the crosshairs. Today’s sponsor: Stamps.com. Sign up for a no-risk trial and get a $110 bonus offer, when you visit Stamps.com and enter promo code TheGist.
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New Books in Native American Studies - Tracy Leavelle, “The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America” (U Penn Press, 2014)
Studies of Christian missions can easily fall into two different traps: either one-sidedly presenting the missionaries as heroes saving benighted savages or portraying them as villains carrying out cultural imperialism. At the same time, these vastly different perspectives are based on the same error of minimizing native agency. In The...
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Start the Week - The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe finds out what goes on inside the mind of a mathematician. Cédric Villani explains the obsession and inspiration which led him to being awarded the Fields Medal, 'the mathematicians' Nobel Prize' in 2010. Zia Haider Rahman combines pure maths, investment banking and human rights in his exploration of how abstract theory can impact on real life. Vicky Neale reveals the beauty of prime numbers, while the director Morgan Matthews finds love in his film x+y at the International Mathematics Olympiad. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Serious Inquiries Only - AS117: Two Ex-Mormon Stories, Part 1
This week I’m very pleased to be joined by two ex-Mormons, Bill and Gerald. Their stories are similar in many ways, but also diverge at a few key points. Get a glimpse into what it’s like to grow up as a Mormon; the missions, the creepy corporate feel of the church, the very firm expectations. … Continue reading AS117: Two Ex-Mormon Stories, Part 1 →
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World Book Club - Anne Tyler
World Book Club visits the home of the Pulitzer-Prize winning author Anne Tyler, in the city of Baltimore. From her spare, elegant writing room Anne talks to Harriett Gilbert about her own personal favourite novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Abandoned by her salesman husband, fierce, sometimes cruel matriarch, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed charmer, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and intense. Now as Pearl lies dying with her children around her, the past is unlocked, each character with their own searing take on it.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #504 – Mar 7 2015
Guest Rogue: Alan Melikdjanian aka Captain Disillusion; Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Oswald Avery; News Items: Dress Color Hubbub, Ranking Websites by Factual Accuracy, Reverse Eyeball Evolution, Dawn at Ceres; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
"In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the previous 10,000," claimed a recent edition of The Economist. Ruth Alexander and Hannah Moore look at whether this is true. With the world's population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, how confident can we be that everyone will have enough to eat? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.