Month: July 2020

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: As Economic Indicators Get Worse, the US Revs Up the Next Multi-Trillion Stimulus

The Breakdown Weekly Recap covers growing US-China tensions, worsening job numbers and the next casual $1T-$3T in stimulus.

This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com.

This week on the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW covers:

  • A terrible week for U.S.-China tensions, with dueling consulate closures and a strikingly hawkish speech from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
  • Worsening economic indicators, particularly around jobless claims which saw their first weekly rise in four months
  • The likely size of the next U.S. stimulus bill – $1T to $3T.


This week on The Breakdown:

Monday | What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified? 

Tuesday | What’s Behind the Fed’s New Push to Promote Inflation? 

Wednesday | A Simple Explanation of DeFi and Yield Farming Using Actual Human Words 

Thursday | Will Big Tech Enable or Destroy Small Business? Feat. Sahil Bloom

Friday | Could the European Recovery Plan Actually Break Europe Apart? 

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Broadway Star Ali Stroker on ADA’s 30th Anniversary

Today's "Special Edition Saturday" interview features history-making Broadway star Ali Stroker. She shares what the 30th anniversary of the landmark civil rights legislation, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), means to her.

Be sure to tune-in each weekday for our regular episodes to get quick, unbiased news roundups in 10 minutes! 

 

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part Two

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the women who went to law school with her knew something of what it had taken to get there. In the second part of this special series, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Ginsburg’s classmates about their lives in the law after Harvard, and to Justice Ginsburg herself about what women in the law today can take from their stories. 

Read Slate’s full interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg about her own time at Harvard Law School and her memories of her female classmates here. Read the full stories of each woman’s life here. 

Archive of President Bill Clinton announcing his intent to nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court courtesy; William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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The Gist - Lone Star Lunacy

On the Gist, losing all the stuff.

In the interview, Mike heads to the Lone Star State to speak with Scott Braddock, editor and Texan political analyst at the Quorum Report. Braddock is also host of Texas Take, a podcast from the Houston Chronicle. They dissect Gov. Abbott’s coronavirus response, his backtracking, and why he paused the state’s reopening. And they get into how the state isn’t as securely Republican as many think it is.

In the spiel, the Lobstar of the Antentwig.

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Consider This from NPR - Expanded Unemployment Set To Expire; Americans Face ‘Utterly Preventable’ Evictions

More than 25 million Americans have been receiving expanded federal unemployment benefits — $600 a week. Those benefits disappear in days.

Congress is unlikely to agree on new package before the end of next week. And temporary moratoriums on evictions are coming to an end in many places around the country.

NPR's Noel King spoke with Matt Desmond, founder of Princeton University's Eviction Lab, about what could happen if Congress doesn't provide more help, and why so many American families were already in trouble before the pandemic.

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SCOTUScast - United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.

On June 30, 2020 the Supreme Court released its decision in United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.. In an 8-1 decision, the Court upheld the ruling of the lower court, which found that “Booking.com” is not a generic term, and is thus eligible for trademark protection. Justice Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion for the Court, writing that a website styled “generic.com” does not qualify it for federal trademark protection if the term has meaning to consumers; however, because “Booking.com” does not necessarily signify to consumers an online hotel reservation service, it is therefore not a generic term, and qualifies for protection. Justice Sotomayor authored a concurring opinion, and Justice Breyer dissented.
Joining us today to discuss this case and its implications is Zvi Rosen, Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University’s School of Law