Month: April 2022

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Behold! The Potato (Encore)

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What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their contemporaries who lived when they did have in common? 

None of them ever ate a potato. 

The potato is a rather new addition to the diets of the old world, and one which revolutionized civilization. 

Learn more about the potato and how changed world history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | A Conversation With Europe’s Top Tech Cop

For nearly a decade, Margrethe Vestager has led Europe's efforts to rein in big tech. One newspaper article described Vestager as putting the fear of God into Silicon Valley. How is she thinking about fairness in tech in 2022?


Guest: Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe fit for the Digital Age 


Host: Lizzie O'Leary

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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Chuck Klosterman’s Wrong, And The Battle Over Daylight Saving Time

This weekend on BEST OF THE GIST, we unearthed a 2016 interview with Chuck Klosterman, the author of The Nineties and a dozen or so other books. In this archival gem, Mike and Chuck discuss what counts as a great American novel, and how we decide who’s smart. And we’re also listening back to the Tuesday spiel about how a Harvard sleep researcher changed Mike's position in the battle over Daylight Saving Time.

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Consider This from NPR - Oligarch Assets Parked in the US Are Hidden in a Web of Financial Secrecy

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, there has been intense focus on Russian oligarchs - elites with enormous wealth and close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The United States and international allies have imposed travel bans and economic sanctions on the billionaires, freezing accounts and impounding yachts and private jets. The goal is to disrupt the covert money funneled to Putin and his regime and to make the oligarch's lives difficult enough that they might pressure Putin to loosen his grip on Ukraine.

Now President Biden's KleptoCapture task force faces the difficult and time consuming task of tracking down assets hidden in intricate webs of financial secrecy - many created by US regulations - that allow the oligarchy to hide their money and maintain power.

We speak with Paul Massaro, a congressional foreign policy adviser who specializes in sanctions and illicit finance.

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Amarica's Constitution - The Hearings According To Durbin – Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

We’re a little late this week, but it’s worth it, as we are able to report on a lengthy conversation that our (returning) guest, Dean Vik Amar of the University of Illinois School of Law, had with the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, just hours before our podcast taping.  He offered Vik and his students a truly inside look at the Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings just conducted, as well as his perspective on confirmations in general, and some truly surprising perspectives and possible ideas for reform - and now, our listeners have this early access to them.

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Motley Fool Money - Guide to Financial Statements (1 of 2)

Motley Fool Senior Analyst John Rotonti walks you through the most important financial statements through the sale of a burrito. (Yes, really.)

 

In part one of this two part series on financial statements, Rotonti discusses:

- How to understand balance sheets and income statements.

- A key metric that can tell you about a company’s pricing power.

- What you’re actually purchasing when you buy a stock.

 

Bonus Resources!

Chipotle’s valuation metrics - https://www.fool.com/premium/company/nyse/cmg/

Reconciling Net Income to Free Cash Flow - https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/09/24/reconciling-net-income-to-free-cash-flow.aspx

 

Stock discussed: CMG

 

Host: John Rotonti

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks

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World Book Club - NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names

In the latest in World Book Club's season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth, Harriett Gilbert talks to Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo about her extraordinary novel, We Need New Names.

A remarkable literary debut shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize We Need New Names is the unflinching, compelling story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and into America. A coming-of-age story, we follow a young girl named Darling, first as a 10-year-old in Zimbabwe with her friends, navigating a vibrant world of colour, political chaos and ultimately lethal danger. Later as a teenager emigrating to the Midwest United States, she hopes to find a better future living with her Aunt Fostalina in Michigan, only to discover that her options as a young immigrant are perilously few.

(Picture: NoViolet Bulawayo. Photo credit: Nye Lyn Tho.)