Month: February 2021

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Consider This from NPR - Update On A Movement: How ‘Defunding Police’ Is Playing Out In Austin, Texas

Last summer, the city of Austin, Texas, slashed the budget for its police department. More recently, the city council voted on a new way to spend some of that money. KUT reporter Audrey McGlinchy explains what other changes have taken place in Austin.

A powerful new player is joining calls for reparations for Black Americans: the American Civil Liberties Union. Civil rights attorney Deborah Archer — the ACLU's newly elected board president and the first Black person to assume that role — explains the organization's new stance.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The First Canadian Bitcoin ETF Is Absolutely Soaring

The Purpose Bitcoin ETF BTCC could be Canada’s biggest ETF in a matter of weeks.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

Today on the Brief:

  • Welcome back to the price rollercoaster
  • The latest from China’s digital yuan trial
  • A 3-week sprint to a stimulus package


Our main discussion: Canada’s first bitcoin ETF

NLW discusses:

  • ETF 101
  • Pros and cons of a bitcoin ETF
  • History of bitcoin ETF proposals 
  • Early performance for Canada’s BTCC ETF 
  • Implications for a U.S. BTC ETF in 2021


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SCOTUScast - Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc. – Post-Decision SCOTUScast

On January 25, 2021 the Supreme Court decided Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer and White Sales Inc.. The question presented was whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator. This case arose out of a dispute between two dental equipment sales companies. In 2019, the 5th Circuit decided two questions. First, it concluded that the companies’ contract called for arbitration of the “gateway question” of whether a dispute is arbitrable. Second, it concluded that a court (rather than an arbitrator) should determine whether this particular dispute fell within an exception from the contract’s arbitration clause. The Supreme Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
Erika Birg, Partner at Nelson Mullins, and Richard Faulkner, Of Counsel at Bennett Injury Law, join us today to discuss this ruling and its implications.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: The Pentagon May Have Experimented with UFO Wreckage, The Skelecaster Hoax, and the Collapse of the Texas Power Grid

Did the Pentagon just admit it's been secretly experimenting with wreckage from UFOs for decades? Did a Florida man really build an electric guitar from his uncle's skeleton? What exactly caused the collapse of the Texas power grid, and why were so many people left without power or clean water? All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Why Do They Want Us to Be Depressed?

The vaccine news, especially out of Israel, is startlingly good—especially as regards the transmissibility of the coronavirus. So why, the podcast crew asks, are the elites focusing on the bad, bad, very bad? Is this just a matter of habit, or is there something political going on? And why did Biden even nominate Neera Tanden, who is almost certainly not going to get confirmed as OMB director? And why do liberals think there's no dignity in work? Give a listen.

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 02/22

The US nears half a million COVID deaths. New evidence vaccines are cutting hospitalizations. Some United planes grounded after engine failure. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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