Cato Daily Podcast - Why Immigration Visa Backlogs Are Pushing This CEO and Veteran Overseas

Tech CEO and veteran Matt McGuire and his foreign-born fiancee want to get married and live in the United States. So why won't the feds even look at her application for a fiancee visa? McGuire and Cato's David Bier explain the myriad problems with the massive backlog of visa applications.


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Can we use maths to beat the robots?

Daily advances in the technology of artificial intelligence may leave humans playing catch-up ? but in at least one area we can still retain an edge, mathematics. However it?ll require changes in how we think about and teach maths and we may still have to leave the simple adding up to the computers. Junaid Mubeen, author of Mathematical Intelligence, tells Tim Harford what it?ll take to stay ahead of the machines.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Crypto Developer Brothers Leave VC Firm After CoinDesk Exposé; Coinbase Price Bug Exploit

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.

"The Hash" team discusses today's top stories including the fate of two crypto developer brothers who boosted their once-mighty stablecoin exchange Saber using a web of secret identities. Plus, Coinbase users in the Eastern European country of Georgia were able to exploit a price bug that allowed them to cash out their holdings for 100 times the exchange rate.

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Coinbase Mispricing Allows Users in Georgia to Cash Out for 100 Times Rate

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Planet Money - Breaking down the price of gasoline

High gas prices have fueled speculation and investigations — is anyone raising prices and keeping prices high for profit? To find out, we break down the price of gas, piece by piece, to show you how we get to the price we see at the pump and how much everyone profits at each step of the way. | Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ Weekly News Recap, September 2, 2022

The aldermanic exodus from City Council continues, Chicago’s Inspector General criticizes police policy of canceling days off and the prosecution rests in the R. Kelly trial. Reset goes behind the headlines with Erin Hegarty, City Hall reporter for the Daily Line, Kimberly Egonmwan, commentator for WVON and attorney, and John Byrne, senior political reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Consider This from NPR - This Tool Was Supposed To Detect Election Hacking. Now It’s A Misinformation Target

After the 2016 election – and Russian hacking attempts targeted at local election offices – hundreds of local governments across the country made changes.

Among them, installing something called an Albert sensor. It's designed to warn of hacking attempts.

But in Washington State, this cybersecurity tool has become the subject of suspicion on the political right. It's part of a trend that one voting expert described as "using the language of election integrity to dismantle the infrastructure of election integrity."

The Northwest News Network's Austin Jenkins and NPR's Miles Parks explain what's happening.

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The Gist - Where Does The Arc Of History Really Bend?

Author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning, Eve Fairbanks joins us again to talk about the fate of white liberals, who fought alongside black South Africans to up-end the status quo, in the post-Apartheid era. Also, an analysis of the arc of history and in which way it really bends. Plus, a guest Spiel from Eli Lake, contributing editor at Commentary Magazine and host of the podcast The Re-Education with Eli Lake.

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Motley Fool Money - Fall Preview for Investors

With four months left in 2022, what should investors be focusing on? (0:30) Emily Flippen and Jason Moser discuss: - Getting ready to "eat the volatility" - Why they're watching holiday shopping and the Fed's language - Meta Platforms and Lululemon need a strong end to the year - Capital allocation they want to see - 2 stocks that are still expensive (despite their recent drops) - 2 stocks looking attractive at their current price - Ideas for new consumer product innovations (19:45) Best-selling author Dan Pink shares insights from his latest book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, including: - How embracing regret can improve our lives - Key lessons for investors - What Julius Caesar and Elmo can teach us about self-reflection For more about Dan and his latest book, visit http://danpink.com Stocks discussed on the show: META, LULU, ZM, CMG, CRM, OKTA, ABNB, TWLO, CHWY, PEP, COOK Host: Chris Hill Guests: Emily Flippen, Jason Moser, Dan Pink Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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