Month: August 2020

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Big Technology Podcast - From Gezi Park to Black Lives Matter, with Zeynep Tufekci

Social media-fueled protests are a force to be reckoned with in politics today. Movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and Black Lives Matter have drawn millions into the streets in protest of central authorities. But can these movements be effective in the long term? Alex sits down with the field's leading writer and researcher, Zeynep Tufekci, to talk it through.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: S&P5 vs. S&P 500: The Real Story of the Stock Market Recovery

The S&P 500 has recovered to hit new all-time highs but how real is it, and how are leading finance minds interpreting the recovery?

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.

Today, NLW debuts a new format: “10 Takes in 10(ish) Minutes.” 

In this analysis, he looks at 10 takes surrounding the S&P 500’s return to positive territory on the year, including:

  • Great American comeback
  • Market disconnect and widening inequality 
  • Don’t fight the Fed
  • To the Stoolies go the spoils
  • Stock splits and SPACs
  • It’s Tech vs. everything else
  • Cantillon insiders FTW
  • A new era of global liquidity?
  • You’d have done better with gold
  • You’d have done a lot a lot better with bitcoin

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Cursus Honorum

In the Roman Republic, men of senatorial rank could compete for political offices which were placed in a set order and had to be earned sequentially. This hierarchy was known as the Cursus Honorum. The Cursus Honorum was the basis of political and social life in ancient Rome, and the fortunes of entire families could rise and fall based on how high someone could climb. Learn more about the Roman political ladder on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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