Month: November 2020

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This Machine Kills - 17. The Final Phase? (patreon teaser)

We enter Phase 3 in our analysis of the urbanization of technology capital. Planetary platforms like Alphabet and Amazon have reached the point where they possess the power and desire to do more than just provide services or consult on managerial changes. Tech companies struggle against the last remaining binds that limit their full ascension to sovereignty. We have a future to win – or lose. Subscribe at patreon.com/thismachinekills to hear this and more premium episodes every week! Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).
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Motley Fool Money - Election Drama and New All-Time Highs

Investors react to the election. Uber reports a big loss but scores a big win at the ballot box. The Trade Desk soars on earnings. CVS Health names a new CEO. Match Group and MercadoLibre hit all-time highs. Paycom and Qualcomm surprise. And Clorox cleans up. Motley Fool analysts Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss those stories and weigh in on PayPal, Peloton, Roku, Square, Upwork, and Wayfair. Plus, our analysts share two stocks on their radar: Alarm.com Holdings and Scotts Miracle-Gro.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Roundup

Governor JB Pritzker’s graduated income tax amendment was sunk. Freshman Democrat Sean Casten holds on in the 6th District. Perennial candidate Jim Oberweis holds a slim lead in the 10th with ballots still to be counted. There was a lot more to this election than Biden vs. Trump. WTTW’s Heather Cherone and WBEZ’s Dave McKinney join Justin Kaufmann to break it all down on WBEZ’s Weekly News Roundup.

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CrowdScience - Why are elephants so big?

CrowdScience listeners come in all shapes, sizes and ages. This episode is dedicated to our younger listeners who, as we’ve learned before, are experts at asking those superficially obvious questions that for parents, are anything but easy to answer. To start off with, Sylvia, asks why elephants are so big? As we hear from our expert – mammals were at one time, much larger – so perhaps the question should be, why aren’t they bigger? We investigate what drives body size in the animal kingdom.

Presenter Marnie Chesterton, together with our ‘cub’ reporter Arlo, goes in search of the most brilliant scientific minds to respond to a slew of other queries. Shambhavi, from Singapore wonders why humans have five digits on each hand? And Benni from California asks why dogs don’t get sick when they drink from muddy puddles? Do dogs have some amazing ability to fight off viruses and bugs?

Beyond the confines of our planet, we’ve also got a question from Olivia, from Sydney, Australia, who regularly contemplates the universe: what is the biggest object in it she wonders? Marnie and her experts do their best to solve these mysteries.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton, produced by Dom Byrne for the BBC World Service. Image: Getty Images

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How the World Stopped Producing Enough Money, Feat. Emil Kalinowski

In a year when the popular narrative says money printing went crazy, the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University” says the problem is actually too little money.

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

Emil Kalinowski is the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University" collaborations with Jeff Snider. 

In this illuminating conversation, he and NLW discuss:

  • How the global monetary order changed over the last 50 years
  • The exact moment the world demonstrated it had too little money
  • Why bitcoin and MMT are competing to shape the next generation of monetary thinking 
  • Why a big crash is coming, but we’ll be better on the other side 


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SCOTUScast - Rutledge v. Pharm. Care Management Association – Post-Argument SCOTUScast

On October 6, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. The issue in this case is whether states have the right to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, or PBM’s. Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas’s Attorney General, has petitioned the court to overturn the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth District’s prior decision to maintain Arkansas’ statute regulating PBMs’ drug reimbursement rates. Rutledge argues the statute is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Max Schulman joins us to discuss this case’s oral arguments. Schulman is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Pig War

Over the course of history, humans have fought over land, honor, wealth, and religion. But perhaps the oddest, and dumbest war which almost ever broke out between two major world powers….was over a pig. A single pig. Learn more about the British-American conflict known as the Pig War, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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