Month: October 2020

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Consider This from NPR - The President Has Coronavirus. What Happens If He Gets Sicker

News broke overnight that President Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. The White House says they have mild symptoms.

Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, calls the diagnosis "a nightmare."

NPR's Rob Schmitz reports on reaction abroad.

John Fortier spoke to NPR about what could happen if the president gets sicker. Fortier is the former executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission, a group set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Pod Save America - “Trump gets Covid.”

The President and First Lady test positive for Covid-19 after flouting public health precautions and exposing countless others to the virus. Joe Biden, who has so far tested negative, resumes limited in-person campaigning and canvassing. Then Andre Banks of Win Black / Pa'lante talks to Dan about how we can handle the flood of disinformation being directed at black and brown voters.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Chicago and Illinois News Roundup for Oct. 2, 2020

Mayor Lightfoot relaxes restrictions on bars and restaurants, suburban parents are demanding their schools reopen, and House Speaker Mike Madigan is refusing the governor's request to tell a panel of lawmakers what he knows about the Com Ed allegations swirling around him. Those are some of the stories we unpack with our panel of journalists this time around on WBEZ's Weekly News Roundup  

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: ‘Good Reason to Worry’ What the BitMEX Indictment Means for DeFi and Bitcoin, Feat. Stephen Palley and Preston Byrne

Crypto legal experts join NLW to discuss the U.S. government’s case against BitMEX and its implications for the broader ecosystem. 

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

Today on the Brief:

  • Market reaction to Pres.Trump contracting COVID-19
  • Subpar September jobs report
  • Decentralized exchanges have third straight 100%+ growth month 


Our main discussion explores the ramifications of the recent BitMEX charges.

Yesterday, BitMEX was targeted with both civil and criminal complaints, with the CTO being arrested for violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. 

In this conversation, NLW talks to crypto legal experts Stephen Palley and Preston Byrne to discuss:

  • The specifics of the charges
  • How long this investigation has been in the works 
  • Whether there was anything surprising to legal experts
  • Why the criminal complaints represent an escalation of enforcement 
  • Whether there are implications for other industry areas, particularly decentralized finance 


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Preston Byrne: @prestonjbyrne

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Motley Fool Money - Market Uncertainty, Surprising Earnings, and Thinking Bigger

The market reacts to news that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. The Labor Department reports slowing jobs growth. Bed Bath & Beyond soars on surprising earnings. Twilio hits a new high. Pepsi gets a boost from snacks. McCormick serves up strong earnings and a stock split. Popeye’s gets into the chocolate-stuffed beignet business. And the Supreme Court of Ireland rules that Subway bread isn’t really bread. Motley Fool analysts Andy Cross and Ron Gross discuss those stores and share two stocks on their radar: Union Pacific and Rocket Companies. Plus, journalist Matthew Yglesias talks about his new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Tunguska Event

In 1908, in the middle of the Siberian wilderness, near the Tunguska River, an explosion took place which was equivalent in size to the detonation of a 5 megaton nuclear bomb. But it wasn’t a nuclear bomb. Such things didn’t even exist then. It was a mystery that scientists are still trying to figure out today. Learn more about the Tunguska Event on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Mystery of the Bronze Age Collapse

Sometime between between c. 1250 - c. 1150 BCE, civilization as we knew it simply... collapsed. Once-thriving empires fell one after another. Trade routes disintegrated. Literacy plummeted. Mysterious raiders from the sea pillaged city after city. In less than a century, the known world became a distant dream. So what exactly happened? Perhaps more disturbingly, what can the Bronze Age collapse tell us about the modern day?

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