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Have you seen the new Top Gun? More importantly, have you seen Jennifer Connelly's eyebrows? Well, gear up because we have some thoughts on both. Also, we have updates from the CDC, Dave Chapelle is back in the news, and the Supreme Court shows us the good side of politics.
Time Stamps:
0:12 - Introduction
17:09 - CDC Recommendation Update
35:42 - Dave Chappelle continues to be a good dude
Do rail workers really earn ?13,000 a year more than nurses? As rail strikes severely hit services we look at some of the claims being made around pay ? and explain how you can measure average pay in different ways.
Plus we investigate claims that Chancellor Rishi Sunak wasted ?11bn by paying too much interest on Britain?s national debt.
Is pollution from tyres really 2000 times worse than pollution from exhausts?
And we look at sex and statistics in America.
Produced in partnership with the Open University.
Credits:
Presenter: Tim Harford
Series Producer: Charlotte McDonald
Reporters: Nathan Gower, Jon Bithrey
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
Sound Engineer: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon
We'll tell you about the evidence and testimony from the latest January 6th committee hearing. Some of it came from former President Trump's own lawyers.
Also, there are more questions about a school shooting. The head of Texas police outlined new details about the response he called a "failure."
Plus, a plan to make cigarettes less addictive, a Super Bowl champion who's taking his final bow for the second time, and two musicians making history at one of the most popular music festivals in the world.
Americans continue to suffer from sky-high inflation. In an attempt to avert some of the worst consequences, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raised interest rates by .75%.
But is this enough? And what else can the Biden administration be doing to curb inflation?
Dave Brat, dean at the Liberty University School of Business and a former Virginia congressman, thinks this is a good start, but that officials must do more. Brat, whose doctorate is in economics, also says it's mostly the Fed's fault anyway for getting us into this situation in the first place.
"The Fed's had 0% interest rate for 10 years and created this everything bubble," Brat says. "So now it's not just real estate, it's stocks, bonds, commodities. Everything's overvalued and it's going to pop. And that's a disaster. So the Fed's walking a tight rope."
Brat joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the intricate workings of the U.S. economy and what the Fed and the Biden administration can be doing to fix it.
We also cover these stories:
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety tells state senators that law enforcement's response to the Uvalde school shooting was an "abject failure."
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accuses the court's conservative members of eroding the barrier between church and state.
Twitter’s board recommends to shareholders that they go ahead with selling the company to entrepreneur Elon Musk for $44 billion.
Will space travel and exploration be left to the 'billionaire boys club'? Executive Director of the Inter Astra group and 26-year Marine Corps veteran Ché Bolden shares with us his views on the future of space.
This episode presents Part 2 of our series on the grave threat that “Independent State Legislature” theory presents to the Republic, and why it is completely, irrefutably wrong. We welcome Dean Vikram Amar, who co-authored with Akhil their current article, about to be published in Supreme Court Review, which is already widely cited in the media and in forthcoming articles by other scholars. This article attempts to put to rest ISL theory by showing how it is wrong from every conceivable angle of analysis. We take up that analysis, beginning with the text, history, and structure of the Constitution, and then through an ingenious analysis of actual practice. We have been saying that this issue is coming, and by all accounts, it’s here.
A Massachusetts elementary school welcomes "Huntah," the COVID-sniffing dog. Scientist-in-residence Regina Barber talks with NPR science reporter Ari Daniel about how a specialized K-9 unit is helping keep kids in classrooms.
