Month: May 2020

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Surveying the Carnage: How Real Estate, Travel and Music Are Faring During the Crisis

This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund.

The second order effects of the COVID-19 crisis are here, and they’re painful. In this episode, NLW looks at how COVID is impacting three industries:

Travel and tourism

  • 100m lost jobs expected globally 
  • $2.7 in lost GDP 
  • Airbnb lays of 25% of employees 

Music & Concerts

  • From a record $12.2B concert year to a loss of $9B
  • Expectations of concert prohibition lasting up to two years
  • Industry organizing to be included in relief 

Real Estate

  • Commercial real estate expecting 2.5% default rate for 5+ years 
  • Negotiations around sales-based payment instead of traditional rent 
  • Residential sees cratering demand but home prices remain up year over year


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Song Exploder - Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter

Laura Marling is a singer and songwriter from London. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist—she’s been nominated five times for that, along with the Mercury Prize, and the Grammy for Best Folk Album. Since 2008, she’s released seven albums. The most recent album is called Song for Our Daughter. It’s also the name of the song that she takes apart in this episode.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Forced Assimilation of Native People

For centuries the U.S. government conspired to persecute, attack and marginalize the native population. When open warfare became too expensive, some factions of the government proposed a different approach -- what if, they wondered, we erase native culture? This inspired a massive industry of forced assimilation. Thousands of children were forced into boarding schools where they were taught to act more 'European' while being abused, exploited and placed into forced labor. Tune in to learn more about the conspiracy of forced assimilation, and how its long-reaching consequences affect the country in the modern day.

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The Best One Yet - “A stock surge recipe” — Uber drops Lime’s valuation 79%. NBC vs. Streaming’s Achilles heel. Wayfair’s stay-at-home wins.

Uber splurges $170M into Lime — Uber got the better end of the deal as Lime is desperate. Every streaming company is its own species in the Streaming Wars, but NBC may have just solved one of the industry’s Achilles heels. And Wayfair stock has surged (get this) 580% (no joke) in just the last month (seriously), so we’re looking at the signs from back in March that this could have happened. 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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Read Me A Poem Podcast - 07: Song of Myself Verse 52

Walt Whitman is one of the pivotal poets of American Literature.
His poems celebrate the presence of God in the cycles of life like fertility and the endless renewal of nature. Song of Myself connects with readers across time and space asserting Whitman’s belief that through poetry we pass on humankind’s greatest wisdom.